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Look out Milton Keynes, here I come! – My OLNet Fellowship on tracking OER Reuse
http://olnet.org/ I’m still not 100% clear on whether I can tell anybody about this, but… too late now. Earlier this year I took a bit of a flyer and submitted an application for an OLNet Fellowship,...
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What is the most "successful""formal""OER" project?
Simple question, right – what is the most “successful” “formal” “OER” project? Except, not so simple, which is why the scare quotes. I asked the question on twitter, and got some interesting answers so...
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OLNet Fellowship – Week 1 Highlights
At the rate it seems to be going, my month here in Milton Keynes will be over in the blink of an eye, but my first week is coming to a close and I wanted to reflect on some of the things I’ve learned...
View ArticleOLNet Fellowship Week 2 – Initial Thoughts on Tracking Downloaded OERs
As I mentioned when I first posted that I was coming to the UK for this fellowship, my main focus is how to generate some data on OER usage after it has been downloaded from a repository. In looking at...
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SEO as Enclosure – Another Real World Example
Wikipedia Device, aimed at the elderly I know in the past people have given Stephen and others lots of grief about their stance on the Non-Commercial clause. And I admit that, while I understood the...
View ArticleYour Favourite Open Textbook Examples?
While I predicted that 2011 would be the “Year of the Open Textbook” (and I don’t think I got that wrong), for me personally it’s looking more like 2012 will be. BCcampus is hoping to help catalyze the...
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A Day in the life of an “OER Librarian”
OK, so “OER Librarian” is a bit of a stretch – much as I might secretly harbour a desire to be a librarian, I don’t even play one on TV. But recently I was asked to help find some suitable Open...
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Open Textbook Authoring Tools Part 2 – WordPress and Pressbooks
I moved this blog on to the wordpress platform in 2007 (I think.) I built a open learning search portal on wordpress in 2009. I have participated and helped organize a bunch of different “wordpress in...
View ArticleOpen Textbook Authoring Tools Part 4 – The Rest
Well, we are nearing the end of this series on Open Textbooks, just one or two posts to go. Before we leave off this section on Authoring Tools, though, I wanted to provide some annotated links to a...
View ArticleTrying out Zeega for an #OpenEd12 Recap
A few days ago a new storytelling/mashup/presentation tool named Zeega came across my RSS reader. It is still in private alpha (not even beta!) but I was intrigued and so submitted a request for an...
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