OLnet Team
This area has been set up to show you who is involved in the OLnet project.
Project co-directors are: Patrick McAndrew, The Open University (patrick) and Candace Thille, Carnegie Mellon University (cthille)
Site administrators are: Karen Cropper, OLnet Project & Liaison Manager (KarenC), Liam Green-Hughes, Web Developer and Nick Freear, Application Programmer/web Developer (nick)
Other team members:
- Andreia Santos, Open Learning Network Research Associate (andreia)
- Ann Jones, Senior Lecturer (Ann Jones)
- Anna De Liddo, Research Assoc Collective Intelligence Infrastructure (deliddoa)
- Canan Blake, Research Fellow (Canan)
- Doug Clow, Lecturer Interactive Media Development (dougclow)
- Elpida Makriyannis, Research Associate (elpida)
- Eileen Scanlon, Professor of Educational Technology
- Giota Alevizou, Research Associate(giotaalevizo)
- Grainne Conole, Professor of E-Learning (grainne)
- Janet Dyson, OLnet Project Administrator
- Kasia Kozinska, Research Student (Charter studentship) (Kasiak)
- Michelle Bachler, Web Developer: Collective Intelligence Infrastructure (mbachler)
- Renee Fisher, Course Developer and Assistant Project Manager, Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
- Sara Crowe, Project Support Manager (Sara)
- Simon Buckingham Shum, Senior Lecturer In Knowledge Media (sbs)
- Tina Wilson, Open Learning Network Research Associate (TW3)
OLnet fellows and associates
- Yannis Demitriadis, Professor of Telematics Engineering & OLnet Expert Fellow, University of Valladolid, Spain (yannis)
- Giselle Ferreira, Lecturer in Telematics, Open University, UK (gmferreira)
- Svetlana Knyazeva, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
- Engin Kursun, Research Student & OLnet Fellow, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey (ekursun)
- Scott Leslie, BCcampus
- Jenny Preece, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (preece)
- Chuck Severance, School of Information, University of Michegan
Open Educational Resources in the disciplines: a joint Academy Subject Strand conference
ICDE: 6th EDEN Research Workshop
Location
Organized in collaboration with ICDE, the theme of this year's European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) research workshop is User generated content assessment: enhancing transparency and quality of peer production.
The 2010 research workshop will continue the EDEN tradition of highlighting bi-annually the relevant emerging fields in research and innovative professional practice.
ICDE: Going Global 2011
Location
Conference Programme
Weekly update w/c 5 July 10: Team News, Info and Useful Links
General team news
Grainne was at Edmedia conference in Toronto on 1st July giving a keynote presentation in which she mentioned Olnet. For further details of her presentation see: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4092
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:
Weekly update w/c 28 Jun 10: Team News, Info and Useful Links
General team news
Scott Leslie arrived as an Olnet Fellow and will be with the team in Milton Keynes until 22 July. He just missed Svetlana Knyazeva who left on Friday after a month's visit.
Scott is doing a talk at the IET Coffee morning (10:30 Wednesday 14 July) on the Open Educator as DJ.
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
ICTD 2010
Location
The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha (2009), Bangalore (2007) and Berkeley (2006). It aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of information and communication technologies in development practice to meet to discuss the latest research advances in the field.
OLnet team meeting 2 June 2010
Live notes from OLnet team meeting, 2 June 2010
Present: Andreia, Janet, Kasia, Liam, Tina, Svetlana, Canan, Karen, Doug, Anna
Apols: Patrick, Ann, Simon, Michelle, Giota, Eileen, Elpida, Nick
Welcome to Svetlana
Welcome to Svetlana, new OLnet fellow with us for this month. Also planning a visit to the Open University of Catalunya. UNESCO Institute for IT in Education, where she works, is launching a project on OER for Russia and CIS.
OLnet Team half-day workshop 21 April 2010
Present: Simon, Doug, Gráinne, Canan, Ann, Anna, Andreia, Kasia, Elpida, Liam, Janet, Tina, Giota, Karen, Patrick, Michelle, Eileen, Will
Cameras on, being recorded - six cameras capturing us talking in the JLB Ambient Lab. For research purposes.
Broad objective is for us to have a better understanding of what we're doing with the project, greater clarity of everyone's activity, as a foundation for building on. And to have a nice time.
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.
OLnet Fellow Jenny Preece Visit April 2010
Below is the link to the flash meeting recording of the workshop for Jenny Preece's visit for those who missed it, or for those who were there and want to see it again.
Social Learning in the Context of OpenLearn
http://www.slideshare.net Presentation from the Social Learning Seminar jointly organised by the OSRG and OLnet on 17 March 2010
Social Learning in the Context of OpenLearn, Kasia Kozinska
OLnet Team Meeting 31 March 2010
Present: Doug, Karen, Patrick, Andreia, Liam, Janet, Kasia, Ann, Eileen, Anna, Michelle, Canan
Apologies: Giota, Tina, Elpida
Open Educational Resources International Showcase
Location
This event will showcase the work of the UK Open Educational Resources pilot programme and highlight how the UK is supporting innovative learning, teaching and assessment by enabling universities and colleges to share educational materials freely online.
OLnet full team meeting 10 March 2010
Present: Patrick, Janet, Liam, Doug, Nick, Tina, Giota, Canan, Andreia, Kasia, Ann, Anna, Simon
Apologies: Karen, Michelle (at SXSW)
