The Center for Open Sustainable Learning
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The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) is involved in several innovative projects that push the boundaries of learning.
HEATHEAT is an interactive 3D instructional computer game that will provide first responders to a fire with the necessary training and background to handle a similar scenario in a real-life environment professionally, safely, and effectively.
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FolksemanticFolksemantic is a project to create tools that increase the impact of open education resources by helping people find, filter, collaborate around, and remix them. As part of the project, work is underway to integrate the OCW Finder, OER Recommender, and Luvfoo. Plans are to improve these tools and add collaboration, personalized recommendation, widgets, and publishing features. COSL is holding an online meeting on March 26 to describe the Folksementic project and solicit input. See http://oerrecommender.org/mtg to learn more. |
USU OCWUtah State University OpenCourseWare (USU OCW) is an open access repository of educational materials used in courses offered by Utah State University (USU). Under continuous development, the collection currently includes courses from irrigation engineering, instructional technology, and other areas, with the long term goal of eventually providing access to materials supporting almost every course offered by Utah State University. USU OCW materials are available under a Creative Commons license, which grants users the right to use, reuse, copy, transfer, translate, extend, improve, and redistribute the materials. Users commit to provide proper attribution of the source of the materials, make only noncommercial uses of the materials, and open access to any new works based on the materials under these same terms. USU OCW provides free and open access to online course materials, but does not provide free access to professors or free university credits |
OER HandbookThe Open Educational Resources (OER) Handbook is a guide for educators who are interested in learning more about open educational resources. The project is designed to follow the "OER lifecycle:"
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