This document provides information about various social media and online education platforms. It discusses popular social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube, which allow users to connect with others, share content and media, and view videos. It also describes massive open online courses (MOOCs) through platforms like Coursera and edX, which partner with universities to offer online coursework. Finally, it mentions open educational resources like Flickr and Curriki, which allow users to share photos, videos, and curricula under open licensing.
5. MOOC
COURSERA:https://www.coursera.org/
Coursera is a for-profit educational technology company offering
massive open online courses (MOOCs). Coursera works with
universities to make some of their courses available online, and
offers courses in physics,engineering,medicine etc. Each course
includes short video lectures on different topics and assignments
to be submitted, usually on a weekly basis.
6. MOOC:
edX:https://www.edx.org/
edX is a massive open online course(MOOC) platform. The
platform uses online learning software that uses interactive
experiences. Each week, a new learning sequence is released in
an edX course. The learning sequence is composed of short (an
average of 10 minutes each) videos interspersed with active
learning exercises where students can immediately practice the
concepts from the videos.
7. OER:
Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website,
and web services suite. Flickr also enables users to organize
their photos into "sets", or collections of photos that fall under
the same heading. Sets can be displayed as a slideshow and
shared by embedding them in websites. However, sets are
more flexible than the traditional folder-based method of
organizing files, as one photo can belong to one set, many
sets, or none at all.
8. OER:
Curriki:http://opencourselibrary.org/
Curriki is an online, free, open education service.Curriki is
structured as a nonprofit organization to provide open
educational resources primarily in support of K12 education.Curricula and instructional materials are
available at the Curriki website to teachers, professional
educators, students, lifelong learners, and parents. The
majority of the resources on the Curriki site fall under a
Creative commons license.