OER10 Conference, Cambridge, UK   -    Opening Talk by Dr Malcom Read, JISC Executive Secretary

Dr Read starts by discussing the various contexts in which 'openness' is used:

Location

 * when: Saturday 24th April, 2010
 * www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
 * last year: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2009/
 * cfp: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ (deadline: Jan 31st 2010)
 * hashtag: #okcon2010

Introduction

Live blogging, 10:00 AM

TUDelft University is hosting a seminar on open courseware today, mostly targeting the universities of the Netherlands. The idea is to bring together prospective and existing initiatives to discuss the challenges and the successes of OER provision.

The experience of the Open University of the Netherlands was presented by Robert Schuwer:

"The idea behind the original proposal was to create an opportunity for us to get to know about each other's current projects and interests and, very importantly, explore these with a view to generating ideas for potential future collaborations" (Dr Giselle Ferreira, MCT)

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