Ocotillo Presentation #42

Connexions: Hands-on Experience with Free Tools for Open-Access Publishing

presenter: Richard Baraniuk
email: richb@rice.edu
department: Electrical and Computer Engineering and Connexions Project
affiliation: Rice University

time and place: Morning (10:45 - 11:45 AM) and Afternoon (1:30 - 2:30 PM) Classroom Concurrent Session TC 243

description:
Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free open-access educational materials and an open-source software toolkit to help authors publish and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom courses, and students explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. By exploiting XML to its fullest, Connexions seamlessly supports mathematics and other symbolic markup as well as number of output formats, including web pages, e-books, and PDF files for printed books.

Connexions is internationally focused, interdisciplinary, and grassroots organized. More than one million people from 157 countries are tapping into over 3000 modules and 80 courses developed by a worldwide community of authors in fields ranging from computer science to music and from mathematics to biodiversity-- see http://cnx.rice.edu/ Materials are also being translated into several languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Thai, and Japanese.

In this presentation and hands-on demo, we will explore the capabilities of Connexions for rapidly creating and sharing teaching materials.

More details and presentation materials are available in the Maricopa Learning eXchange package for this session.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/slip.php?item=1565