Aaron's Rogue Quest 1
"Carefully review the following sites that publish open educational resources, noting the types of media predominantly used by each site and any site characteristics that seem unique. Pay close attention to the quality of reusability exhibited by the media from each site. Be certain to review a sufficient sample of courses per site to gain accurate insight into their practice. Write a substantive post with references on the variety of media, touching on the reusability aspect of each medium type you encountered."
In this post, I have sampled a number of courses from each of the following websites that offer open educational resources.
MIT OCW
Berkeley
Yale
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Connexions
Open University of the UK
Throughout the rest of this post, I intend to discuss each of the different media types of OERs that I found on these sites, discussing their strengths and weaknesses with particular regard to the 4 Rs of Reusability and the SLAM (or, less violently, the ALMS) analysis (from our in-class discussion on 15 Jan. 2009).
