Blogs, Wikis, and New Media is a very interesting example of innovative, lateral thinking capitalising on a blog framework. Using a traditional WordPress blog, Professor David Wiley has created an online course complete with assignments, syllabus, and 14-week lesson plan. Given the course supports the opencourseware philosophy, there are also no access restrictions to view or use the content. In fact the entire course can be freely downloaded.
This concept is certainly one I plan on coming back to for further exploration, because it may provide a glimpse …

This discovery just in:
“Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.”URL: http://open.yale.edu/courses/index.html
Wow, ok this is impressive. The few course sessions I looked at included MP3 audio downloads, streaming video, video downloads (hi and lo bandwidth), and HTML transcripts. I haven’t looked at the quality of the video yet, but George Siemens indicates they have “Great video quality …