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octObER
It feels slightly wrong to be reviewing the project’s activities during the last month when I’m sitting in sun-drenched Palm Springs, California, but hey, no rest for the wicked! October was scarily busy from the word go. Barbara Means and Linda Shear from SRI International, who were asked by the…
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MozFest14
Last weekend saw over 1600 people get together at this year’s Mozilla Festival. I made my way down to Ravensbourne College on Saturday and have put together a quick Storify to capture some of the amazing collaborations, sessions and people that participated. You can check it out here.
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From Chile, with love
I’m intrigued. The façade of the Universidad de Chile on Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins in Santiago displays a huge banner with a quote from Nicanor Parra, the anti-poet: “Don’t stop being a flea in the minotaur’s ear”. The university celebrates Parra’s 100th birthday recalling part of the speech he gave at the opening of…
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) Launch
Yesterday I was in Edinburgh, Scotland for the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project kick-off meeting and to run a “highly interactive session” to capture experiences and thoughts on OER and OEP in Scotland. Martin was also there, speaking on his forthcoming book (to quote, an “ideal stocking filler”)…
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Super September: Monthly Review
It’s been a super September at the OER Research Hub: here’s an overview of what we’ve been up to over the past month: Open Research Course We had 139 people sign-up for our School of Open course Open Research! This four-week community reviewed course explores the nature and practice of open research…
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It's not reuse, it's adaptation
<Image by SPUR https://flic.kr/p/fb6bDM> Reuse of OERs is an elusive, even mythical creature, so much so that Alan Levine has compared finding it to tracking Bigfoot. David Wiley has spoken of ‘dark reuse‘, like dark matter, we assume it’s going on but we can’t see it. But maybe we’re looking for…
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Writing for Change: Pre-Course Survey
This post was originally published on Peer 2 Peer University’s blog on 29 September 2014. Are you participating in Peer to Peer University’s (P2PU) Writing for Change course? Did you recently complete a pre-course survey? Curious as to what the survey was about or what the findings were? Well, read on! First,…