Category: conference
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#opened13 Keynotes: Audrey Watters
This presentation began with a general discussion – informed by Audrey’s background as a folklore scholar – of apocalyptic prediction. Apocalypse and crisis are motifs that are common in contemporary discourse around education and educational technology, often accompanied by the idea of some sort of salvation through technology. Christiansen’s (1995)…
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#opened13 liveblog Rory McGreal (UNESCO)
Rory spoke about some of the initiatives which UNESCO are involved with. These include POERUP which is looking at governmental OER policies around the world. They are also expanding the UNESCO OER chairs project into new and developing countries. The OER Knowledge Cloud project now curates more than 600 papers…
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#opened13 Keynotes: Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng – co-founder of Coursera – joined us by Skype for this presentation since he couldn’t be with us in person. His presentation focused on the ‘revolutionary’ aspects of Coursera’s MOOC platform. Most people, he noted, could never take a course at Stanford but Coursera makes this possible by…
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…
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Good morning snowy Utah!
October to November 2013 sees the OER Research Hub team, variously, on tour. In my previous blog post I reported on my trip to Paris to present at the EADTU 2013 conference. The temperature was mild during my stay, indeed quite warm at times. Not so in Park City, Utah, where…
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Connexions Conference 2013 and Sprint Days (Part II)
OK… things aren’t that bad! But I was sad to leave Houston after a great week with the Connexions conference team and attendees. Thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome and for taking time out to chat. I’ve been back in the UK for over a week now, so –…
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Connexions Conference and Sprint Days (Part I)
Tuesday’s Connexions conference (see here for the full programme) and the content and coding sprint days which followed were a fantastic experience: there was some great talks (both the keynote, Susan Badger, and the session on “Impact: Faculty and Student Perspectives” were particular highlights) with much discussion about what “next…
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Personalized Learning Workshop (Rice, 22 April 2013)
Pictures from yesterday’s workshop are available here.
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And We Have Lift Off!
Greetings from Houston! The First Personalized Learning Workshop at Rice University is underway… I’ve been tweeting from the conference (check out @Beck Pitt), but also wrote a blog post to cover the first of the morning sessions. So (better late than never) here goes… Remarking on the “personalized Houston weather”…