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Intute - the right way to provide educational resources
July 26th, 2006
Second of two posts on new open content initiatives.
“Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 113495 records.”
Many years ago I was involved in the REM project, run by Bangor University. REM was supposed to be a Resource Locator. It sort of got built - but would only run in Netscape 4 - on a good day - when the servers were feeling friendly. REM was years ahead of its time - so of course the funding was withdrawn. Now 8 years later Intute comes along showing what REM should have been.
Its been a long wait - but its worth it.
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1. Stephen Downes | August 14th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
This post was originally written by Graham Attwell - http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/9257243250 - and has been reprinted here without attribution.
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