This open documentary is made available by Unnayan TV, the Bangladesh first online video channel publishing video contents on development, human rights and educational issues. Summary of the documentary: "Rickshaw, the traditional eco-friendly, non-motorized vehicle in Bangladesh. Japanese word rickshaw refers to Jin-rickshaw. It is a popular transportation in West Bengal and around Bangladesh since 1938. First time it was a vehicle of the high society but now has becomes common transportation o more...

This is a nine module program intended for people working in libraries and information centers. It is intended to provide these people with the ICT knowledge and skills then need to work in those libraries and info centers. All the modules have a teachers guide and student texts. The program was developed by UNESCO's Asia and Pacific Regional Office.

As part of its “Knowledge Communities” project, the UNESCO Office in Bangkok has launched an online ICT-in-Education community. This is an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators, policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions on topics relating to the use of ICT in education. The purpose of the online community is to foster discussion of topics relating to the integration of ICT in teaching and learning. Topics will cover areas such as:

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This material was published by the Open Educational Resources portal called LeMill and is available under Creative Commons License. This course material is used in the Brief History of New Media course of the Media Lab Helsinki. Introduction: "In the last five years this MA course has been organized in a several different ways. From the very beginning we have included to the course some lectures from visitors, with online study work and exercises.

This material partly replaces the old Brief more...

This open course fully available online, has been published by Tufts OCW and written by Roberta Oster Sachs: "This is an intensive, hands-on editorial and production course in which students pitch their ideas and then research, report, produce, shoot, write, and edit their own short documentary films on social issues affecting the local community, the U.S., or the world. Readings and discussions focus on current news, media ethics, media literacy, the declining credibility of the press, journali more...

This online full course is an introduction to the design, analysis, and fundamental limits of wireless transmission systems. Topics to be covered include: wireless channel and system models; fading and diversity; resource management and power control; multiple-antenna and MIMO systems; space-time codes and decoding algorithms; multiple-access techniques and multiuser detection; broadcast codes and precoding; cellular and ad-hoc network topologies; OFDM and ultrawideband systems; and architectura more...

the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK), facilitated by FAO, is a series of modules on CD-ROM and on the Internet, offered free of charge, which introduce the latest concepts, approaches and tools for information management.
Each IMARK module focuses on a specific area of information management, with a curriculum designed, developed and reviewed by subject matter experts. The modules are being developed using the latest methods in e-learning, providing an interactive environment for sel more...

This Web site dedicate to Open Technologies for K-12 is published by the "CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative". The goal of this Web site is to help educators and technologists with the planning, evaluation, decision-making, and implementation processes associated with adopting Open Technologies in K-12. The initiative is sponsored by Apple, IBM, Pearson Education, and the Wm. & Flora Hewlett Foundation to support the adoption and utilization of open technologies in K-12 education more...

Fahamu is the first NGO partner in the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The organization supports the struggle for human rights and social justice in Africa. Fahamu OpenCourseWare Web site, available since recently, offers two full open courses related to human rights and social justice.

The organization has developed a range of distance-learning courses aimed at strengthening the capacity of human rights and civil society organisations. The topics covered are the result of extensive research condu more...

Fahamu organization offers a full course related to access to information. This very complete course is available online and published on the organization's new OpenCourseWare Web site. Combining the freedom of information campaigning expertise of Article 19 (http://article19.org) with the extensive distance learning experience of Fahamu, this course is meant for people and organizations from a broad spectrum of areas in Africa who have an interest in the issue of access to information. This inc more...