Knol - A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

Knol is criticized in social media for some of its features. But now a presentation of Knol-author professors in an award event brings out the fact that those features make Knol a unique ICT resource of faculty across the world.

Use of Knol to support the courses at NITIE by three professors was adjudged as the best innovation in the assessment made at the Annual Management Convention 2010 of Association Indian Management Schools.

Faculty members can post their course plans, course materials under their name, add the names of some of their students as coauthors appropriately, encourage their students to post their individual assignments as well as group assignments on knol and make their course learning materials accessible to all the faculty members and students across the globe. Such access of course materials makes it possible assembly of best study materials for any course in future by any faculty member as per his choices. Students of a course can also search the web for resources and suggest or include such resources in the course material of a course.

Thus the knol based course materials provide a spiraling effect to upgrade the quality of course materials available to any learner.

The point was well appreciated by the participants present. This Knol project at NITIE was awarded the Gold Medal.

Knol - A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

Health Information Technology Articles on Knol

http://knol.google.com/k/itdothealth/itdothealth/1la7y21mm6rw4/1#


The ITdotHealth, a National Health Information Technology Forum, was created in response to unprecedented plans for investment in health information technology (HIT) by the federal government.

The ITdotHealth knol collection supports the national effort by enabling rapid creation and dissemination of research on Health InformationTechnology.

Professors on Knol

Around 750 professors have registed their presence on knol so far. Education is a popular category on knol. Some of the professors are in the top 10 knol authors based on most number of visitors and pages viewed.

If many professors get into the routine of writing articles on the concepts that they teach, number of knols will increase rapidly and also visitors will increase as many students start visiting the site following their professors.

Some of the names of professors are listed in a knol

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/professors-writing-knols-knollers-knol/2utb2lsm2k7a/569

NEST on Knol

NEST (Never Ending Story) is the knol which has become an increasingly popular venue for publications including ones that look a lot like standard peer reviewed journals. More generally, a NEST starts as an embryonic paper. With iteration and with the help of co-author and reader suggestions, it incubates a mature manuscript. Unlike a blog, it is not just a snapshot of a narrative perspective in a sequence of snapshots, but a single integrated document.

We are using the knol as the infrastructure for our NESTs, we can hope that academic publishers will provide vehicles of similar functionality.

Important Statement from

HMS - Countway Library of Medicine - Director's Blog
Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine and the new frontiers in biomedical computing

http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2009/09/never-ending-stories.html

Knol as a teaching aid

Knol for dummies-writing a knol about


Health Issue - Bacteria decay - Rotten egg smell in well water
http://knol.google.com/k/mark-bowen/health-issue-bacteria-decay-rotten-egg/hq2vomqc6hij/1#

This site was a little different. The idea behind writing a knol is to educate other people about a specific topic or idea. This is pretty cool as a form of assessment. At the end of the lesson, students can write one about what they have learned.


http://teacheras.blogspot.com/2009/04/emerging-technologies-in-classroom.html