Category: Meetings
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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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May Update: What's new at the Hub?
The weather may have cooled down since Bea’s review of our activity in April, but it’s been another scorcher of a month here at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) during May… Visitors Fresh back from OER14 in Newcastle, we were honoured to host our final open fellow, Alan Levine, here at the…
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Reblog: International Interest in Our Virtual College's Use of OER
Thanks to Ann Garnsey Harter of Shoreline Community College for this blog post about our meeting last week. We look forward to including Shoreline’s experiences as part of our evidence portfolio and keeping track of future developments!
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SPARCing debate on Open Access
As part of our field work in Washington DC last month I met with Heather Joseph who is Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a membership organization of academic and research libraries. Their mission is to make libraries and the information they hold more equitable…
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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”…