The TESSA OER experience

By Freda Wolfeden & Bob Moon
There are 18 instituions involved in thsi consortium to train teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The TESSA Portal: South Africa Country Page.
Challenge: need to devise materials that could be easily localised and contextualised for a number of institutions. Highly structured templates for study units were devised. Each study unit was written [...]

Devising a participatory open educational resources architecture for higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa: a typological approach

By Peter Bateman.
Presentation based on his PhD research.
OER Typology:
1) Creation
What to consider when authoring OER:
Authoring original OER (very few people do)
Interoperability
Think of how to diseeminate oERs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Videos is not an alternative because there is no way to disseminate them. Policy makers shoudl be aware of all these issues to make informed [...]

Open Learning Initiative: measuring the effectiveness of OLI statistics course in accelerating learning

Presentation by Candice Thille & Joel Smith
Well, I got a bit tied up with cleaning up the files from my digital voice recorder and missed the beggining of the talk. It’s about 20 min on now. From here:
Second study: Spring 2006 – Comprehensive Assessment of Outcomes in a first Statistics course (CAOS)
Increase 7.9%pts of accuracy [...]

OpenLearn demo

It’s Monday and we are here at the conference centre doing a demo of the OpenLearn website for the participants. Jo, Laura and the OpenLearn team are welcoming  the visitors. Simon, Elia, Alex and Ale are presenting the tools. Patrick, Steve and Andreia (me!) are talking about research in OpenLearn. Here are some photos for [...]

OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference and OpenED 2007 – Logan, Utah, USA 2007

OpenCourseWare Consortium Fall Conference – Utah

1.1Date and location 
September 24th-25th 2007 – Utah State University, Logan, USA
  1.2 General details of the meeting and presentation: 
The main purpose of the conference was to discuss the governance proposal of the OCW Consortium. A final draft has been approved and a governance pack will be sent to the OER leader [...]

ICDE Toluca, Mexico 2007

General details of the conference:  
International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Conference
 Conference sub-title:
“The Metamorphosis of Distance Education for the third Millennium. Institutions, Programs, Technologies and Roles… the same thing”
Date and location: 
Toluca, Mexico, from the 2nd to the 5th of October 2007
 Conference website: 
http://www.tecdigital.net/UV/icde/main.php?lang=es
 Presentation:  
Paper presented on the 4th of October, Thursday, from 16:15-16:35, by Andreia [...]