TU Delft Open CourseWare Seminar: The OUNL Experience

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 [...]

Explore, map and build: brainstorming questions

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 [...]

Explore, map and build workshop

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’ [...]

How to…OER

Live blog:11:25AM
New OER initiatives are popping out throughout the world. It is often the case that institutions are looking for answers on how to get started as OER providers, and how to get their staff and students involved in the process. Today I am in a meeting with some Dutch universities, which are either [...]

Back at OLnet after 6 months

It’s been a while since I last wrote a note in this blog. This is because I had been (and still am!) very busy making corrections in my PhD thesis. I was on a six-month leave from work to make the corrections, and should be finishing them soon. So, as from last week, I am [...]

OLnet – designing a network of OER research

The aim of OLnet (Open Learning Network) is to establish a network for information sharing about OER research. Questions such as ‘How can the design and reuse of OERs be improved?’ and ‘How can we build a socio-technical infrastructure to serve as a collective evolving intelligence for the community?’ are the heart of OLnet’s interests.
Launched [...]