January - June 2009 | Gonschior, Schönmuth, Steffen, Melzner, Wahl
Photographs of marine organisms for classification
More 50 different marine organisms shall be recorded for an online animal classification course. These recordings will be part of a larger online module on animal classification.

November/December 2008 | Melzner, Hammann
Videos on the functional and physiological morphology of marine organisms
Some 20 videos (1-2 min duration) will be recorded with a video camera mounted on a binocular microscope.

Oktober 2008 - April 2009 | Froese, Garilao, Lorenz, Göbbels
'Biodiversity of Fish' and 'Fish Online'
The content of the already exisiting and freely accessable online courses 'Biodiversity of Fish' and Fish Online will be transferred to Nickels and enriched with lecture video podcasts, additional media and interactive components, including a direct interaction with the online resource Fishbase.

April 2008 | Beyer, Friedrichs, N.N.
Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy
For this ISOS PhD Course on 'Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy', firstly introduced in April 2008, materials and assignments shall be created and arranged in Nickels for a blendend learning scenario (self-study, seminar, practical). Additionally, collaborative components will be applied.

March - April 2008 | Slawig, Gördes
Practical Course in Computer Programming
This course will be based on a framework for participative and collaborative components (i.e. basic Wiki functionality), newly introduced in Nickels. Students shall be enabled to write e-content groupwise and to upload and share Java-Applets as exercises results.

March 2008 | Antia, Göbbels, Lorenz
PhD Short Films
ISOS PhDs will get the opportunity to present themselfs and their work by short films. This project starts in March 2008 and shall generate a general video production service.

WS 2007/08| Lenz, Appelhans
Applied Biostatistics
For each of the 12 parts of this course (lecture and exercise), extensive interactive assigments have been developed for students to test their acquired knowledge. Exercises are based on multiple choice, order and assigment tasks and include automatic feedback functions.

WS 2007/08 | Antia, Hammann
Biogeochemistry
The script for practical course 'Biogeochemistry' (being part of the module 'MNF-bioc-102 -- Practical Courses in Biological Oceanography') has been enriched with different interactive components, like assigments, maps, visual guidelines for experimental setups as well as interactive software and a master spreadsheet. Additionally, the Nickels glossary will get about 70 new entries.

II. Framework Projects

February 2008 | Lorenz, Rabe
Educational Simulation Framework
This project aims at implementing an editor based framework for instructional embedded numerical simulations for learning. It will help to generate educational simulations (as java applets) for ocean sciences very quickly. Outcoming simulations can be integrated in Nickels (or any other e-learning platform supporting Java applets) as well as used a standalone applications. First usable simulations are scheduled for July 2008, the implementation of the framework itself has a long-term perspective.

since August 2007 | Lorenz, Struve
Nickels Online Tutorial
This online tutorial for Nickels has been initiated to provide brief recipies for learning, authoring and teaching with the e-learning platform Nickels. The tutorial will be frequently updated. Currently (Sep 2008), it covers four chapters and 43 topics. A future perspective is to merge our tutorial with the Nickels Tutorial from the e-learning group of the faculty of medicine at CAU. This tutorial is based on video screen captures and includes interactive assigments. Together, both tutorials will be a powerful tool for learning about Nickels.

since August 2007 | Nickels user, Lorenz, Emde, Urbansky.
Nickels Development
Like any software, the acceptance of e-learning platforms heavily depends on user-friendliness. Hence, any platform can be facilitate and updated in this respect. In close cooperation with our customers, the ISOS e-learning group identifies features to be modified in or newly introduced to Nickels. These features are implemented by the Nickels developers as fast as possible.