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• On the Future of Art History (& the Humanities) Outside the Walls

  
  Smarthistory: The Blog — Authority: 99
  Last week, Beth and I delivered a paper on the future of higher education at an experimental conference in ScienceSim , an Open Sim virtual world supported by Intel. The conference went off quite well thanks to Shenlei Winkler , its thoughtful and extremely capable organizer. We titled our presentation “The ...
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• Otago Polytechnic and the International Centre for Open Education

  
  Sarah's Musings — Authority: 420
  Here is a link to an interview with Dr Wayne Mackintosh called " Making Connections " which was published in the Otago Daily Times this weekend. In the interview Wayne describes the work of Wikieducator , which is a wiki devoted to sharing resources with educators. Wayne also explains the work of the International ...
  2 days ago

• Harnessing Openness in Higher Education

  
  open... — Authority: 568
  Surprisingly, perhaps, education was one of the late-comers to the openness party (couldnt be all those fiercely protective academic egos, could it?) Happily, ground is rapidly being made up in areas like open access, open courseware and open educational resources (OER), with a steady stream of important studies ...
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• Talking about open research at the IRGO unconference

  
  Sarah's Musings — Authority: 420
  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: 465
  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 ...
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• Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA)

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 582
  Dave Cormier questions some underlying presumptions of resource repositories in this examination of opene ducational resources (OERs). "There is a presumption in traditional learning design that a given trainer is somehow going to be able to divine the needs of a given group of learners before a course is started. ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 465
  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 ...
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• Recurring Issues Encountered by Distance Educators in Developing and Emerging Nations

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together

  
  open... — Authority: 568
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finally – an agile workflow

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 134
  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. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Success and Challenges in OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 142
  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, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Learning Object Metadata is... (dead?); Long live Learning Object Metadata!

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 465
  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 ...
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• IRRODL special edition on openness and the future of higher education

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Dave's Educational Blog — Authority: 470
  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: 134
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Open educational resources in developing countries

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 134
  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: 134
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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