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 [...]