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• Talking about open research at the IRGO unconference

  
  Sarah's Musings — Authority: 125
  At the beginning of the week I chaired a panel at the IRGO unconference at Otago University. The brief of the panel was to consider how we can be more collaborative in our Internet research in New Zealand. Our brief I started off the session by explaining that one of my great passions is to encourage researchers ...
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• The future of the university?

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  I’ve been participating in the Jisc on-line e-Learning conference this week, based on my video on ‘ Do Institutions have a future ‘. I’ will post later on the organisation and use of technology at  the conference – although just to say here that I think it a great pity Jisc did not make this an open ...
  2 days ago

• Handbook for teachers on practical use of Web 2.0 and social software

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  Some of you may remember that in May I posted an order form for the EU Taccle projec t handbook on e-Learning – snappily entitled “Teachers Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments.” Don’t be put off by the title – in my mind this is the best practical handbook I have seen yet about using Web @.0 ...
  4 days ago

• Recurring Issues Encountered by Distance Educators in Developing and Emerging Nations

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Wright, C., Dhanarajan, G. and Reju, S. (2009) Recurring Issues Encountered by Distance Educators in Developing and Emerging Nations IRRODL, Vol. 10, No. 1 I don’t know how I missed this in February, but this is essential reading for anyone contemplating using e-learning or online learning in less economically ...
  1 week ago

• Taking OER remix to new levels: WikiEducator, Connexions and Mediawiki

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Wayne Mackintosh of WikiEducator announces, "Collaborating with OER projects which subscribe to licenses which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition, WE aim to provide educators with greater freedom of choice to mix and match the best of two OER worlds, namely "producer-consumer" models with more ...
  1 week ago

• Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  As regular readers will know, I write a lot about the related areas of openness, freedom, transparency and the commons, but its rare to find them literally coming together like this, in the Free Culture Forum : Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a ...
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• Finally – an agile workflow

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  David Porter writes, "Ive been looking, asking colleagues and associates for a straightforward description of an agile workflow for the creation or reuse of open educational resources (OERs). Youd think it would be simple to find. Nope. Not until today. While searching using simple, easy, agile and other adjectives to ...
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• Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Carter, D. (2009) Program goes beyond open course model eSchool News , September 16 Parry, M. (2009) Obama’s Great Course Giveaway Chronicle of Higher Education , August 3 These two articles discuss Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, which takes open educational resources to the next level. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Success and Challenges in OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Heather R. Pena has published a paper on successes and challenges in in adopting and developing OER. From the article: Many leading institutions in higher education adopted the OER platform and face many challenges in this modern day world including: the rapid growth of technology, globalism, licensing, economic, ...
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• Learning Object Metadata is... (dead?); Long live Learning Object Metadata!

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Is Learning Object Metadata (LOM) experiencing a rebirth? It was, as this item notes, recently reaffirmed as an IEEE standard (mostly, I would say, for lack of a viable alternative). But theres also a spike in searches for it, according to Google, perhaps in relation to a corresponding increase in searches for open ...
  2 weeks ago

• Implementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  I have been invited to particpate in a workshop on ‘ Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation ‘, being sponsored by the EU funded Stellar Network of Excellence at Garnisch in Germany at teh start of December. I am contributing to a session on Work Based ...
  2 weeks ago

• IRRODL special edition on openness and the future of higher education

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  The International Review of Open and Distance Learning has just brought out a special issue, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2009 , edited by David Wiley and James Hilton III, on openness and the future of education. Table of Contents Editorial: Openness and the Future of Higher Education David Wiley, John Hilton III ...
  3 weeks ago

• Presentation prep/notes for -> Open Educational Resources – A potential foundation for the future.

  
  Dave's Educational Blog — Authority: 509
  Thursday November 5th, 4pm Eastern NA. GLOBAL TIMES In May i had the wonderful opportunity to try a live slide build as part of the WIAOC (webheads in action online convergence). They were a great crowd, and the build was awesome. It was the first success that I’ve had with that kind of live interactive slide ...
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• Barriers to effective use of open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Hatakka, M. (2009) Build it and they will come? Inhibiting factors for re-use of open content in developing countries The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries , Vol. 37. No. 5, pp. 1-16 From the abstract: Despite the benefits of open content the usage is very low in developing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Commonwealth of Learning (2009) OERs: the promise and the pitfalls, Connections , October Although fairly brief, the article contains some useful links on OERs
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• Call for action on open education from NMC and the Open University of Catalonia

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  A communiqué has just been released about the outcome of the Open Ed Tech conference held jointly by NMC and UOC in Barcelona October 19-20, 2009. Summary ‘Summit attendees generated fifty action items necessary to realize the goal of creating an institution truly responsive to the needs of students today ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finding OERs

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 93
  One of the biggest challenge for OERs is getting used.  Despite many large scale projects I suspect most would say that uptake is relatively disappointing. I am sure the new JISC funded OER projects won’t be satisfied with only making everything available in JORUM – but it will be interesting to see what you ...
  4 weeks ago

• The problem with educational metadata

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 93
  Continuing to think around the information to provide around our OpenSpires content it is reminding me how problematic educational metadata is.  It seems obvious that learning objects or OERs should be discoverable by metadata describing things such as, subject and educational level and it is arguably desirable ...
  4 weeks ago

• Access to Open Educational Resources

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 559
  Wiki publication (theres also a PDF version) summarizing discussion from the community held in February and March 2009. "Part One gives an overview of the various constraints that limit access to OER, while Part Two documents some tested or proposed solutions or approaches. The access challenges and solutions ...
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