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OERde14 – The view from Scotland
[Cross posted to Open Scotland] I’m delighted to have been invited to Berlin later this week to give a talk at OERde14 – The Future of Free Educational Materials. I’ll be talking about a range of...
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LRMI Implementation Case Study: OpenStax CNX
Project lead: Daniel Williamson, CNX “OpenStax believes that everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach. OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving...
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LRMI Implementation Case Study: ISKME OER Commons
Co-authors & Project Team: Michelle Brennan, OER Information Services Manager; Lisa Petrides, CEO ISKME. ISKME’s OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure and suite of services for...
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Thoughts on #OEPSforum14 and the Battle for Open
(Cross posted to Open Scotland.) This rather crowded map of open education in Scotland is the product of a brief ten minute brainstorm I took part in at the launch of the Open University’s Opening...
View ArticleEduWiki Conference 2014
Last Friday I went along to the EduWiki Conference in the distractingly beautiful St Leonard’s Hall at the University of Edinburgh. I have to confess to being a bit of a Wikimedia fangirl; I’m not a...
View ArticleOpen Scotland at SHED
On Monday I gave a presentation on Open Scotland and the Scottish Open Education Declaration at a Scottish Higher Education Developers event hosted by the inestimable Jisc RSC Scotland. Vicki Dale was...
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LRMI Implementation Report: Overview, Issues and Experiences
Towards the end of last week Phil Barker and I completed and published our technical synthesis of the ten Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) implementation projects funded through Creative...
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Looking forward to OER15!
Clearing the post-Christmas mail backlog is always a bit of a chore, but it was well worth it to find two emails from the OER15 committee saying the papers I submitted have been accepted for this...
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OEPS Forum and ways forward for the Scottish Open Education Declaration
Earlier this month I went along to the second Opening Educational Practices in Scotland Forum where I’d been invited to present an update on the Scottish Open Education Declaration. OEPS Update The...
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Creativity, serendipity and open content
I recently went along to an event organised by the Digital Humanities Network, Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, where Ben O’Steen, Bob Nicholson and Mahendra Mahey gave a series of fascinating...
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OER15 – Better late than never!
It’s rather late in the day to be posting an OER15 blog post, but better late than never hopefully! :} As ever it was a hugely enjoyable and inspiring conference, and as is often the case, Marieke Guy...
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The Voice of OER15
Typical. You wait a week for an #OER15 blog post and then two come along at once! Thanks to the folks at CADARN for this inspiring little video which really captures the spirit of the conference....
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