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OLnet-TESSA Fellowship Scheme - Closing date 20 September 2010
Tue, 13/07/2010 - 09:01 | by KarenCDownload Guidelines and Forms For OLnet-TESSA Fellowships
OLnet is working in partnership with the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA – see www.tessafrica.net) project to offer four Fellowships. These Fellowships are open to scholars and other educational professionals from Sub Saharan countries where TESSA already operates (Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia), who are affiliated to an academic institution and have an interest in researching Open Educational Resources and their use to support teacher education.
How can we improve this (OLnet) website?
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 09:36 | by KarenCIn the spirit of openness and continuous improvement (and trying out available tools), we have set up a free account on Uservoice for suggestions on how to imporve this website. Please have a look here: http://olnet.uservoice.com/
Cloudworks also has a Uservoice page set up for suggestion: http://cloudworks.uservoice.com/
Uservoice allows you to add ideas and also give weighted voting to your own and ideas added by others.
16th International Conference on Distance Education – ABED (Brazilian Association for Distance Education),
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 08:57 | by Janet DysonLocation
16 CIAED - ABED International Conference on Distance Education
"Content, Learner Support and Certification: The Ingredients for Efficacy in Central EAD "
For further details see: http://www.abed.org.br/congresso2010/programa.asp
Weekly update w/c 30th August 2010; Team news, info and useful links
Wed, 01/09/2010 - 13:18 | by Janet DysonGeneral
OLnet's Andreia Inamorato dos Santos took part in a round table discussing ‘OER as Learning Objects’ at the 16th International Conference on Distance Education – ABED (Brazilian Association for Distance Education) using Flashmeeting on the 2nd September 2010.
Open Educational Resources in the disciplines: a joint Academy Subject Strand conference
Big Ideas Fest 2010
Thu, 26/08/2010 - 09:42 | by Janet DysonLocation
ISKME's second annual Big Ideas Fest isn't your usual education conference.
The three-day Big Ideas Fest is an immersion into collaboration and design with a focus on inspiring and modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education.
See what the buzz is all about by viewing videos from last year's inspirational speakers, participant interviews, and engaging group conversations.
To learn more about Big Ideas Fest, email at bigideas@iskme.org
WORDLE and its use for visualising user data
Wordle http://www.wordle.net is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that the user provides. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. The user can choose different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. The images that are created in Wordle can be printed out or posted on a website.
For more information on using and getting good results from Wordle see the attached briefing from Dr. Shailey Minocha (Department of Computing, The Open University, UK) - PDF
COMMA 2010
Mon, 23/08/2010 - 13:35 | by sbsLocation
OLnet's Simon Buckingham Shum is attending this event.
HEA ICS Annual Conference 2010
The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science's 2010 Annual Conference will take place from Tuesday 24th to Thursday 26th August 2010, at Durham University.
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/11th-annual-conf/index.php
Weekly update w/c 23th August 2010; Team news, info and useful links
Mon, 23/08/2010 - 09:40 | by Janet DysonGeneral
Your Ideas: What could Search Engines Do (to Make Finding Educational Content Easier). The Question: Could commercial search engines do a better job? What could a commercial search engine, or search engine company, do to make organizing, finding and accessing educational content easier and more effective? To give your comments, ideas see: http://www.learningregistry.org/news/yourideaswhatcouldsearchenginesdotomakefindingeducationalcontenteasier
UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis Final Report is now available online on the team wiki
http://bit.ly/90Jkyg. The report offers a summary of strand activities and also includes individual strand synthesis work too.
