Category: liveblog
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#liveblog Panel: Increasing OER adoption in a community of practice #opened15
This panel brings together experts from the community college sector in the USA: Una Daly (UD); Preston Davies (PD); Quill West (QW), Christie Fierro (CF) and James Glapa-Grossklag (JGG). Many of the panel are involved in both the Open Education Consortium and The Community College Consortium for OER (which was…
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#liveblog Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
Mary Burgress and David Port are kicking things off on the final day of Open Education 2015 with their keynote on open textbook adoption in BC – time for a liveblog! The idea of the presentation is to tell the story of the project as well as to honour those…
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#liveblog: Researching OER in the open
Here’s a live blog summary of Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams‘ presentation from Open Education 2015 on the progress of the ROER4D project (86 researchers across 26 countries). Cheryl began by describing the federated and distributed nature of their project, as well as some of the challenges faced by their researchers in the Global…
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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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#oer14 Liveblog – #oer14panel
Coming to you live from Newcastle, UK, I’m going to live-blog the panel discussion. Questions will be in italics and answers in regular text (by initial). The participants are: Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University Mike Sharples, The Open University Jonathan Worth, Coventry University Torie Eva, Pearson Alan Levine, CogDog IT…
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OER, STEM and General Education #elearning2014
It’s the final morning here at eLearning2014 and also the last session with an OER focus. We have a panel of experts from colleges around the USA talking about James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Jean Runyon, Associate Vice President, Learning Advancement and the…
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Innovating at Community Colleges through OER #elearning2014
This presentation at eLearning 2014 brought together a number of OER Research Hub friends in discussion of the way that OER is fuelling innovation in community colleges. They comprise: James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Quill West, OER Project Director at Tacoma Community…
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s International Conference Centre, the venue for the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), to enter a huge auditorium over which presides a long ‘high table’ for the distinguished guests, backed by sparkling…
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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)…