Questions for Publishers

How will support be provided in terms for who pays for it, who does it, for this interactive web/ electronic media?

We think we are going to do a hybrid text because of the limitations of our own time and what people are going to be ready for. If it's too difficult to navigate, then we don't think that people are going to want to use it.

Is it their intention to have this book link to learning management courses? Or a website that is totally interactive? Would you like for the book to be blackboard compatible? Or use Moodle?

Is there a way that we can get access to the ebooks they have now?

Next Steps:

Let's find out if there are any ebooks or ideas that Aurora would like us to look at.

Second Life Education Wiki

second life wiki -- there may be some interesting information here.

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

Second Life

This is an application that some of our super tech folks are doing. I think it's a bit surreal, but supposedly the students love it. Take a look at more information at this link (which then links to some class applications, but it appears that 2 of the links were dead when I tried them). http://elearning.niu.edu/virtual/index.shtml

MIT Open Courseware

MIT has their online courses available to the public. Here's the link: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/visits/index.htm

Open University

Open University is an on-line u that has the course material online as well. Here's an example of one of their on-line books and it looks like it coordinates with video. In other words, students read the text and then have videos and other stuff that corresponds to the content.

http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/tasters/e123/objects/d1220.pdf

This particular book is organized by "study topics".

E books

It helps for me to look at some distance ed courses and see how they organize their course materials. Here's an example: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm

This has clips of lectures and videos and information all together. I think it would be a good starting point for considering what we would want to include in our book.

Moodle

Moodle also has a lot of potential for our book. One of the neat things we could do with Moodle is to have a survey for the different sections and get feedback/make changes as students were using the text. Wouldn't that be cool?