MIT OpenCourseWare

The MIT OpenCourseWare website is a free publication of course materials used at the world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This website provides Lecturers with an opportunity to explore how their courses are taught at MIT and enhance their courses with the resources available on the site including:

• Syllabi, reading lists, study materials, discussion questions, in-class activities
• Lecture notes, problem sets, labs and more.
• Lecture videos and demonstrations.

UWI Lecturers or Students can also use the website for self-study on a wide variety of subjects. New courses on the website include:

• 12.491 Biogeochemistry of Sulfur
• 21H.914 Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times
• 21M.775 Hip Hop
• SP.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
  

There are three requirements Lecturers or Students using materials must meet in order to use the materials:

1. Non-commercial: Use of MIT OpenCourseWare materials is open to all except for profit-making entities who charge a fee for access to educational materials.
2. Attribution: Any and all use or reuse of the material, including use of derivative works (new materials that incorporate or draw on the original materials), must be attributed to MIT and, if a faculty member's name is associated with the material, to that person as well.
3. Share alike (aka "copyleft"): Any publication or distribution of original or derivative works, including production of electronic or printed class materials or placement of materials on a Web site, must offer the works freely and openly to others under the same terms that MIT OpenCourseWare first made the works available to the user.
   

For assistance in using the MIT OpenCourseWare website, contact the myeLearning team at: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

E-Learn 2008 - AACE Conference

Have you been studying your use of myeLearning (Moodle) in your teaching at The University of the West Indies? Would you like to share your findings? If so, consider submitting a proposal to the E-Learn 2008 conference organized by The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) . The conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 17-21. For more information about the conference, visit: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm.

News from Campus Technology: Student faces expulsion over Facebook study group.

"A chemical engineering student in Toronto faces expulsion from his school for running an online study group through Facebook. Chris Avenir, a first-year student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, said he joined the social networking group in fall 2007 to get help with the homework in one of his chemistry classes. Eventually, he became the administrator for the network, which grew to include 146 students."

Read Dian Schaffhauser's article at: http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/59936

MyeLearning Training Dates

Are you teaching a course this summer? Do you want to provide students with online resources and activities? If so, join us for our next myeLearning Workshop. Two sessions will be held in May:

1. Thursday, May 1st, 2008, LRC West Computer Lab from 8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
2. Thursday, May 8th, 2008, LRC West Computer Lab from 8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided. To RSVP, send an e-mail to Ms. Tisha Ghany at: Tisha.Ghany@sta.uwi.edu. Please include your dietary requirements in your e-mail.

Faculty Book Lists

Faculties can now share their booklists with students from within myeLearning. The booklists are linked from the course portal.

For more information about using this feature, send an e-mail to:
myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

Welcome

Welcome to the new EdTech Blog at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. The eLearning Team at Campus IT Services will be using this blog to:

• Communicate news about the various services we offer
• Announce professional development opportunities
• Engage you in discussion in topics related to using technology to support student learning in higher education

We are sure this blog will be a valuable resource to you. If you're interested in starting your own blog, e-mail us at: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu and we'll help you set one up.

I'll end this first post by thanking Mr. Daren Dhoray for assisting us in connecting this blog to our campus website. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.