KarenC's blog
My Contribution to OU Conference 'Learning in an Open World'
Sun, 06/06/2010 - 15:41 | by KarenCThis is my presentation prepared for the ‘Learning in an Open World’ online conference 22-23 June 2010 (see: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2012)
How to reference Flickr images correctly for CC Licence
Tue, 11/05/2010 - 16:16 | by KarenC
Feedback from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grantees Meeting in Yale
OU staff Patrick McAndrew (IET, Director of OLnet), Simon Buckingham Shum (Senior lecturer KMI working on SocialLearn and OLnet), Karen Cropper (IET, Project and Liaison Manager OLnet) and Freda Wolfenden (FELS and TESSA) all attended The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2010 Grantees Meeting at Yale University on 8-10 April 2010. At this meeting the Hewlett Foundation presented for the first time to a public audience their new funding strategy for the next 7 years.
What are Open Educational Resources?
Sat, 17/04/2010 - 20:52 | by KarenCOpen educational resources can be defined as ‘teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, material or techniques used to support access to knowledge’
Larry Rosenstock and High Tech High
Sat, 10/04/2010 - 11:28 | by KarenCI met this really interesting man at the Hewlett Foundation Grantees meeting – Larry Rosenstock, CEO of High Tech High. This 14 min video about High Tech High is well worth a look if you are interested in whether there is a better way to teach than the traditional:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rv_rmJYorE&NR=1
Experimenting with Animoto
Sat, 03/04/2010 - 20:58 | by KarenCCreate your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
What has the OER community learned from OLnet?
Tue, 02/03/2010 - 18:09 | by KarenCThe top 10 articles (from the first year) on OLnet.org provide an indication of the areas covered:
Wikis
For my own record thought I would list a number of internal (but public) Wiki pages that may be of interest:
IET Public Wiki: http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page
IET Technology Enhanced Learning Wiki: http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/TEL
Olnet Wiki: http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/OLnet
OLnet Research Questions Wiki: http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/OLnet_RQs
Google Docs Trial
Fri, 19/02/2010 - 15:59 | by KarenC
We have been trialling Google Docs as a method of colaborating as a team on shared documents. I just thought I would record some frustrations that I have with the Spreadsheet version.
