Science Open Resources: "World Library of Science"
Cable Green
The good “Open Education” news just keeps coming…
===================
World Library of Science
See post by Sir John Daniel on the "World Library of Science," a joint venture between UNESCO and Nature Publishing Group.
...launch of a partnership between UNESCO and the Nature Publishing Group to create the World Library of Science, which will be the first open online learning resource covering the entire life and physical science curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary level. Nature Publishing is the world's premier scientific publisher. As well as its flagship journals Nature and Scientific American, it publishes 70 other leading science journals.
The Library will offer high-quality material drawn from Nature Publishing Group's publications as well as new instructional materials developed specifically for the World Library of Science.
It will contain 2500-3000 learning modules in all concepts of life and physical sciences arranged into standard curricula but capable of full customization by all institutions; and a robust web-based and mobile-based delivery system providing access to materials, tutors, and academic information to any faculty or student with basic connectivity.
This is an ambitious project, which claims that it "is intended to transform global science education by creating a common ground of current, research-oriented, vetted information and curriculum for all".
Content will be licensed with CC-BY-SA... ;)
Cable
PS – Chronicle post today re: $2B DOL grant.
Cable Green, PhD
Director of eLearning & Open Education
(e) cgr...@sbctc.edu / (p) 360-704-4334
(t) @cgreen / (b) OER / eLearning