11:00 AM
This morning I set myself to explore some technologies to support the upcoming OLnet virtual workshops. The OU itself offers a number of them, such as Cloudworks, Cohere and FM. These are great tools that have been used successfully by a growing number of people worldwide. Nevertheless it’s important for us to keep an [...]
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Live blogging, 10:00 AM – attendance by webinar
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 [...]
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Live blog post, 3pm
continued form previous post:
1) Models of technology:
All projects use a pool of technologies: social networking (e.g. Facebook, Ning, Cloudworks), repositories (OpenLearn, slideshare, flickr), mapping software (e.g. Compendium, Cohere).
2) Models of learning:
Common to all projects: an attempt to blend formal and informal learning;
Discussed: the individual and social dimension; structure and unstructured materials.
3) Models [...]
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Live blogging:
2:15pm
continued from previous post:
What does each project think they can get out of this workshop?
What are the models of learning?
What do we mean by communities? What about collaborations?
In terms of technology, what are the experiences we have in terms of using different tools? How can we pull this knowledge together?
How can we use tools [...]
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Live blogging:
11:25am
This morning we are gathered together at the Open University, The Design Observatory, Observation Space, to discuss the connections amongst the various OER projects existing in the university. By ‘we’ I mean representatives from projects such as OLnet, Atelier-D, OpenLearn, SCORM, LDI, iSpot, the TERG research group and the OU Library.
We started by ‘building’ [...]
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