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Next Generation Learning Challenges: Reflective notes from Educause briefing event
Mon, 16/08/2010 - 16:58 | by giotaalevizouEducause and Next Gen Learning Challenges
EDUCAUSE, has launched ‘The Next Gen Learning Challenges’ (NGLC) initiative to invite the conversation and to foster a genuine and active community dedicated to improving college readiness, encouraging college completion, and exploring the transformative effect of learning science and emerging technologies on student success.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
openEd 2.0 course: development going public
It’s been a silent blog here for the past month, but in the light of openness, we decided to change this a bit and to make our course development activities public!
Overall, it took us quite a while to get things online, but the design of the openEd 2.0 course is well on its way … the course finally got its name (Business and management competencies in a Web 2.0 world), and as important, it got its content, 10 modules at the end, namely:
HESTIA wins Google Award
Tue, 20/07/2010 - 23:34 | by elpidaGoogle’s Digital Humanities Research Awards support 12 university research groups with unrestricted grants for one year, with the possibility of renewal for an additional year. One of the 12 projects that will receive Google's Digital Humanities Research Awards is HESTIA's Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic geographical entities in the Google Books corpus with principal investigators Dr Elton Barker (Open University), Dr Eric C.
My stay with the Open University in June 2010
Location
The Moscow-based UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) has launched a project aimed at promoting OER movement within the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States. Basic components of the project, I am in charge of, are identifying opportunities and needs, exploring policy options, and capacity-building in the production and use of OER in CIS countries and Baltic States. To support the efficient design of the project, under the OLnet Expert Fellowship I focused my research on the major problems concerned with the production and use of OER: quality, the effectiveness of use and sustainability, as well as copyright and open content licensing issues (to the extent they are applicable within the copyright laws existing in CIS).
OLnet Team Meeting notes 30th June 2010
OLnet Team meeting 30/6/2010
Present: Patrick, Karen, Giota, Kasia, Tina, Michelle, Canan, Ann, Janet, Liam, Scott, Nick
Apologies: Simon, Anna, Andreia, Elpida, Eileen, Grainne
1. Round table introductions
Scott Leslie introduced himself he is:
CETIS OER Gathering - Glasgow
I recently attended a CETIS one-day event to support the development of collections of open education resources. The day was to look at technical issues around collecting and using third-party OER content in a repository (drawing on the work of the ICoper project) and to look at issues around creating and providing dynamic collections of OERs (event link).
OLnet full team meeting 16 June 2010
Notes from OLnet team meeting, 16 June 2010.
Present: Patrick, Giota, Kasia, Tina, Michelle, Anna, Canan, Doug, Andreia, Svetlana, Janet, Liam
Apologies: Karen, Simon, everyone else
