Category: liveblog
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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: George Siemens
David Wiley introduced George by noting that he wrote the course for which the term ‘MOOC’ was originally created. George similarly paid tribute to David’s stewardship of the OER movement. Here are George’s slides, helpfully made available ahead of time. Open Education 2013 from gsiemens The presentation started with a…
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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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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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Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota
Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota where Bea de los Arcos and I are at FlipCon13 – the annual conference for the Flipped Learning Network (FLN). The conference is being held at Stillwater Area High School. The Flipped Learning movement is growing at pace with over 500 physical attendees and 500 virtual…
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#oer13 live blog – Keynote by Toni Pearce
Toni – who is the NUS Vice President (Further Education) – reported on 22 focus groups comprising 185 students which explored online use of OER. While many students made use of OER, it was much more common for them to be used when they were endorsed or required by their teachers. Students…