Today's eSchool News Online features this story: "Open-content learning portal debuts 8,000-plus digital learning resources available to teachers and learners at no cost," by Laura Devaney.
It seems that a"new online content resource center, formally launched March 9 by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), will make more than 8,000 classroom materials available to teachers, faculty, and learners worldwide, at no cost." Apparently the resources are available in the OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons. [FYI, getting into these two websites before timing-out has been intermittent this morning.]
Something I find interesting in the report, as well as most appropriate, is making these teaching and learning materials available by "using web 2.0 social networking features, such as tagging, ratings, comments, and reviews." At this point, any new DARM tool ought to be incorporating the community-building features inherent in Web 2.0 design. Check it out and share what you think. Hopefully it will be something useful.
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