What you get when Research and Community come together
I just submitted three abstracts for the OER15 Conference 14 – 15th April 2015 . It started as one but I realized that there are really three distinct pieces of work that could be of benefit. I don't expect all three to be accepted but here are the abstracts for anyone who's interested. Open licensing…
Read more →Note: This is an expanded version of a comment on this post on EdSurge . Other people have also commented here , here and here . [toc] Note 2: When I first started thinking about this post, I had this title in my head but decided it wasn't quite appropriate "You'd have to be an…
Read more →This is a post about knowledge, community, online repositories, OERs, and the ethnography of the teacher staffroom inspired by a recent experience with JORUM . What was the last time you learned something interesting or helpful ? I'm willing to bet that it was one of these: 1. Somebody you know or trust told you…
Read more →Finally, JISC is turning some of the innovation and creativity it has poured into technology into the process of funding itself. The idea of JISC Elevator (see http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/28/project-pitching-jisc-elevator-concept/ ) is modeled on the Mozilla Drumbeat ( http://www.drumbeat.org ) - a Kickstarter-like project but with more varied sources of funding. With Kickstarter people have to back…
Read more →I have been thinking about this for a while but the below happened as a proposal for THATCamp London . If somebody already had this idea, great. If somebody had a similar idea, lets think about this together. If somebody likes these ideas and wants to do something about it, you're welcome to them! What…
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