As part of its L3 Farmers project, the Commonwealth of Learning and the Sri Lanka Association of Distance Educators recently organized a workshop on Open (Agricultural) Education Resources. Participants from 5 universities learned to use WikiEducator to develop educational content, they also prepared interactive lessons on different topics.The wiki pages show what went on in the 4-day workshop; visitors can also view lessons on the following topics:Chilli Leaf Curl complex and its Management Housing and Feeding of Poultry Banana Cultivation Chilli Diseases Cost of Production in Rice Cultivation The pages are still very much 'work in progress' but they show what can be done in a short time. Feedback and requests for further information should be sent to Krishna Alluri at COL.See more...
The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research, University of Athabasca, has invited me to impart a seminar in the framework of the CIDER Sessions about my digressions around The Personal Research Portal. The focus here will be on the educator, as I did in my article El portal personal del profesor: El claustro virtual o la red tras las aulas [The Personal Research Portal: The Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classroom].
The seminar will take place online — using Elluminate — on Friday 11th April 2008, at 17:00h GMT (in English).
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Materials for the seminar (browse and download)
Link to Presentation (click to log in 30min prior to the start of the presentation)
CIDER Sessions home page
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The UK government departmnent responsible for the environment (and food and agriculture) just luanched a wiki to encourage environmental stakeholders to help draft an 'environment contract' for the UK on a website where anyone can edit the content. So far the experiment in collaborative working and policy drafting seems to be working.
What is a wiki? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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