Tag Archives: olnet

Data Visualization Tools

There’s a nice list of data visualization tools available on netmagazine.  I think it would be really interesting to experiment with a few of these in the context of the redevelopment of the OLnet Evidence Hub in the OER Hub … Continue reading

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Recording: Cambridge 2012

More media now online… you can watch the presentation that myself and Patrick McAndrew gave at Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education back in April at http://presentations.ocwconsortium.org/uk2012_329_learning_lessons_of_openness/.

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OER Hub Visualisations

Just a first pass at creating infographic-style slides for a forthcoming report.  There were created with easel.ly using data from the OLnet OER Evidence Hub.   One is still missing at the moment… I’m interested in any feedback!

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Philosophising about Education

A couple of weeks ago I attended the ‘What’s the use of philosophy of education?’ workshop at Liverpool Hope University.  The audio of my presentation can be found here and the slides on a recent blog entry.   I was … Continue reading

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Thoughts on ‘Open’ Policy

The most popular policy initiative in the world of OER is proving to have considerable appeal to a range of stakeholders.  Here’s a concise expression of it, courtesy of David Wiley, Cable Green, and Louis Soares at Center for American Progress.  (The … Continue reading

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Learning the Lessons of Openness

These are the slides we’ll be using for our presentation at Cambridge 2012 tomorrow morning.  The full paper can be accessed at http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer12/abstracts/329.html. View more presentations from Robert Farrow.

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OER and Collective Intelligence

Here is a copy of the slides from the presentation given at OpenOpen earlier today by myself and Anna De Liddo. The title of the talk was “Building and Communicating Evidence of Effectiveness in OER through Collective Intelligence” and relates … Continue reading

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I lost my Open Ed virginity

I was fortunate enough to attend the annual Open Ed conference last week, and there was much food for thought.  I live-blogged as many of the sessions as I could in Cloudworks and there’s a video archive of the presentations … Continue reading

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OLnet Evidence Hub: A Demo

Here’s my short introduction to the OLnet Evidence Hub.  If you’re at all interested in OER you should get involved.  Registration is currently open.

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OER Blogs

A number of OER blogs are aggregated at http://oerblogs.org/.  They are divided up into RSS feeds according to subject:  Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Course Ware (OCW), Intellectual Property and the Open Access Movement.

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