Connexions - Rice University


	Connexions - Rice University

PatParslow

1-29-2008 3:39 AM

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collaborative, sharing, non-linear, connectivism, open-content

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/54d06d7a-5183-41c3-8709-e351e5bb201e/32B5AB48-01D4-4C9C-A064-A778067D3F9B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cnx.org/aboutus/" href="http://cnx.org/aboutus/" style="font-size: 11px;">cnx.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><H1 class="documentFirstHeading">Philosophy</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><P>
            Connexions is an environment for collaboratively
            developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing
            scholarly content on the Web. Our <A href="http://cnx.org/content/">Content Commons</A> contains educational
            materials for everyone — from children to college
            students to professionals — organized in small <A href="http://cnx.org/help/glossary#module">modules</A>
            that are easily connected into larger <A href="http://cnx.org/help/glossary#course">collections or courses</A>. All
            content is free to use and reuse under the <A href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</A> <A href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">"attribution"
            license</A>.
          </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><DT>Content should be modular and non-linear</DT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><DT>Sharing is good</DT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>technologically:</STRONG> we store content in     <A href="http://cnx.org/help/glossary#xml">XML</A>, which ensures that it works on multiple computer platforms now and in the future.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><STRONG>legally:</STRONG> the <A href="http://www.creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</A>
     open-content licenses make it easy for authors to share their work</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><STRONG>educationally:</STRONG> we encourage authors to write each module to
     stand on its own so that others can easily use it in different
     courses and contexts.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cnx.org/aboutus/"><DT>Collaboration is encouraged</DT>
<DD>Just as knowledge is interconnected, people don't live in a vacuum.  </DD></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/32B5AB48-01D4-4C9C-A064-A778067D3F9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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