Preparing for your lessons?

In planning for lessons, there are moments when tutors or classroom teachers get stuck. How will the concepts be better understood? Is there a new and interesting way of presenting the subject matter?

Internet access has enabled these questions to be answered with relative ease. One of the ways is through open-source learning. Open-source learning, the method of educating people using the internet, has been opening up more opportunities for a greater number of people.

Connexions (http://www.cnx.org) is one of those initiatives at open-source learning. They have modules and collections on a wide selection of topics and languages, and at different levels. What sets it apart is that you can modify the module or the collection to suit your needs and your audience and have the option to share your work by uploading it. You can even create your own! Not only are you given more ideas in teaching, it also paves the way for your brilliant ideas to be shared with others so that they, too, can benefit from them.

Who started this and why? Watch this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html