Following on from my general blog post about OpenEd12, there’s lot’s of the conference that I’m not going to comment on – too much time has passed. However, for me at least, there were two presentations that highlighted pivotal issues and which have shaped how I’m thinking back on the year. One from Rory McGreal and … Continue reading »
The 6th Sloan C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium has just launched their call for presentations: http://sloanconsortium.org/conference/2013/et4online/call-for-presentations The conference is April 9-11, 2013 in Las Vegas. The call for presentations, posters, and workshops closes December 10th. “The Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT, is … Continue reading »
As a complement to the work Gema has been doing on the role of Libraries and Librarians in OER Initiatives, Nancy Graham & Jane Secker have recently released a report on Information Literacy OER and established a mailing list to support the further development of the network. From their announcement: “Following a survey earlier this … Continue reading »
Open educational resources: staff attitudes and awareness A new article by Viv Rolfe published in Research in Learning Technology. This is a benchmark study on faculty and staff attitudes to OER. Dr. Rolfe has been involved in and led a number of the UKOER development projects.
An intial look at UKOER without the collections strand (C). This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] In my earlier post in this series on the collections strand (C), I presented a graph of the technical choices made just by that … Continue reading »
Are you wondering what to do with your OER next? Are you wondering how to keep the ball rolling in your institution and share some more educational resources openly? Are you looking for a tangible way to get your open content used? or perhaps looking for a way to turn your OER into something a little more … Continue reading »
What technology is being used to aggregate open educational resources? What role can the subject community play in resources discovery? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] In the UKOER 2 programme Strand C funded “Projects identifying, … Continue reading »
What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] Dissemination protocols The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in … Continue reading »
How are projects tracking the use of their OER? What tools are projects using to work with their OER collections? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] Analytics As part of their thinking around sustainability, it was suggested to projects that … Continue reading »
When projects in UKOER 2 created or edited content what tools did they use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series. [These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note] Tools to make OER Notes Ms Office and Adobe Acrobat are not represented in these graphs or in … Continue reading »
