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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Plans for an OA repository of video modules in math and science

MIT helps launch interactive video education project in Jordan, a press release from MIT, November 13, 2008.  Excerpt:

Two MIT professors traveled to Jordan this month to help kick off a new initiative called Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS), a joint international collaboration of educators from the United States, Jordan and Pakistan....

BLOSSOMS aims to develop a large, free repository of science and math interactive video modules for high school students created by gifted volunteer teachers from around the world, seeded initially by MIT faculty members and partnering educators in Jordan and Pakistan....