Construction of New Courses

• Database of individual resources

• Drag-and-drop object assembly

• Resource meta-data:

  • Author, date, topic
  • Subject categories, keywords
  • Reviewer feedback (colleagues&students)
  • Usage statistics
  • (Price !!!)

• May lead to an object economy with multiple feedback loops

• Principles of self-organization:

  • Evolution-like selection rules
  • Sum is bigger than its parts

NSF-ITR Grant:

Investigation of a Model

for Online Resource

Creation and Sharing

in Educational Settings

PI: Gerd Kortemeyer

Co-PIs: W.B.,

Deborah Kashy,

Edwin Kashy,

Cheri Speier

Sept. 2000: Funded

M$2.1 for 5 years

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