OER killed the Website Star

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Patrick Lockley

So you’re on a journey, you know roughly where you want to get too. On the road ahead are a few places you can get food, one slight detour away is a restaurant you know is good, and a way … Continue reading →

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Students as open content producers

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Lisa Mansell

One of the themes we chose to embrace as part of our Great Writers Inspire project was the concept of students as producers of OER. We experienced success with this during the Triton project as part of OER phase 2, … Continue reading →

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Engage workshop 19th-20th April 2012

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Lisa Mansell

Register your interest now http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TKCDC8K We invite you to register your interest to participate in a free 2-day interactive workshop run by the Great Writers Inspire project. Our ‘Engage’ workshop for teachers (HE, FE, 6th form) and learners will take … Continue reading →

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Watch, listen and learn

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Lisa Mansell

The audio and video recordings which were captured at our Be inspired event are now live http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/great-writers-inspire. These inspirational short talks by Oxford academics form the basis of content collections for the Great Writers Inspire website, but we didn’t want … Continue reading →

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The shelf-ish gene

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Patrick Lockley

The benefits of a database over a big blob of text is you can automatically generate links to related content. Writing this text now every time I want to add a link I have to stop, thinking about what I … Continue reading →

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