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the idea of a university
This evening I spoke in a series of Oxford seminars convened by the Assessor entitled ‘Beyond Consumerism? Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century University’. I am a fan of events with ‘beyond’ in the title as you may know. … Continue reading
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student digital experience
There is a growing need to try to define the experience Oxford students will have online, that appropriately supports Oxford’s traditional teaching methods, graduate skills expectations, and the social lives of the students. This was a concern raised at the … Continue reading
don’t get locked in
Learn about the benefits of Sakai at ALT-C 2011. I’ll be leading a symposium to talk about the benefits of Sakai and running open source software at an institutional level. The session will focus on the use of open source … Continue reading
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open to change
Last evening was the second meeting of the ‘Sustainable Kellogg’ working group. I did my best to eat as much as possible so as to minimise waste if not waist. With a focus on sustainable transport we discussed how we could … Continue reading
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four Es of sustainability
Yesterday I had the opportunity to try out the same presentation to two different groups. In the morning I presented at our OER Ripple event to partners and friends from our neighbouring institutions Oxford Brookes University and Harper Adams University. … Continue reading
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Tagged edgeless, edges, fourEs, hedges, OER, sustainability, walls
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What can your OER do for you?
We recently held a Ripple OER ‘institutional strategies’ workshop in Oxford at Kellogg College. ‘In it to win it’ workshop: Institutional marketing strategy and policy for OER Thursday 3 February 2011 What is your OER doing for you? Video: [mp4] … Continue reading
Beyond 2011
Our ‘Beyond’ conference this year will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC . The conference will be of interest to learning technologists, librarians, museums, community groups, archivists and researchers. This … Continue reading
Send in the crowds
Through a community collection the general public or members of a particular group are invited to contribute to a project by uploading their own content or adding information to existing resources. For sustainable crowdsourcing : Aim for two-way engagement Be part … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond, beyond 2011, crowdsourcing, power of the crowd, RunCoco, sustainable crowdsourcing, top tips for successful OER
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Aim for success, not perfection.
I am spending the day at the New Strategies for Digital Content Conference in London, at the charmingly named Goodenough College. The RunCoCo project has presented about the support they give to community collection digitisation projects. There are many questions … Continue reading
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institutional strategy
If you want to hear me go on a bit again the Open University are hosting an event in Nottingham next Friday (11 March) titled ‘Institutional Strategies for OER’ at which I am speaking. The event seeks to explore the … Continue reading
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Tagged academic practice, OER, open con, SCORE, strategy
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