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Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Google Tutor: Tutorials and Tips for Google Users Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice. tags: google, tutorial Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Annotated Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according […]

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection tags: maps, history, geography, secondlife, googleearth The Center for Open Sustainable Learning — COSL tags: opensource, education, opencourseware Welcome to eduCommons — eduCommons eduCommons is a content management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like Notre Dame OCW and OCW Universidad de Cantabria. eduCommons will help you develop and […]

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

MATRIX: The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online » KORA: Multimedia Repository tags: cms, learningobjects Clickers – TLP – CSU, Chico tags: clickers Research & Best Practices in Higher Education | TurningTalk tags: clickers, education SpacedEd | Addictive Learning That Sticks tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links […]

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

NCAT Homepage NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of higher education. NCAT provides expertise and support to institutions and organizations seeking proven methods for providing more students with the education they need to prosper in today’s economy. tags: […]



Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis