What is the EXCITE project?

Hello everyone. 

 My name is Jason Wiks. 

 Welcome to my blog about the EXCITE project.

What is the EXCITE Project?

The EXCITE project aims to create unique learning opportunities by connecting Alberta students and teachers to experts in every field and the digital data that they use in their day to day work.   

These connections will enrich the learning experience for students in both face to face classrooms and those learning in digital learning environments. 

Who are the partners in the EXCITE project?

The Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC) has teamed up with Virtual Researchers on Call (VROC), CISCO Systems and the Alberta Chamber of Resources to kick the project off.  

We are hoping many other organizations will join us as the project grows. 

Where did the idea for the idea EXCITE project come from?

ADLC develops distance education courses.  we also partner with schools all over Alberta.  It has become obvious that the resources we need to create the type of learning experiences our students should have to thrive simply are not available to us because of copyright and other non-educational barriers.

We are swimming in this:

  And we needed to be swimming in this:

 

Through the EXCITE project, we are going to try to create a learning community that is rich in unique, free, open, editable, mashable, reusable content that will give students and teachers the resources they need to enable the type of learning that will help them succeed well into the future.

We have a few ideas that have started us down the road to making this happen.  I will share what we have done so far in the next few posts on this blog.

I look forward to your feedback and any ideas you may have on how we can build on our ideas, or point me towards similar projects that we can learn from. 

Jason 

Jason.wiks@adlc.ca
@adlcprojects