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Online Educa 08 - Open Educational Resources - Rachel Bruce

December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Rachel Bruce, Programme Director - Information Environment, JISCSharing Nationally: Is It Any of Your Business?Fior JISC the benefits of Open Educational Resources are:

Improving education
Giving institutions access to larger range of resources
Supporting students in their learning
Saving tutor time, accessing resources they […]

Dec

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Online Educa 08 - Open Educational Resources - Richard Baraniuk

December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Dr Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, USASustainable Open Education Resources - The Connexions Model Baraniuk outlined his basic concepts - that OER is about dealing with text on a page by page basis not as a book, that these pages are accessed through an interconnected repository, it is all based on open source, it is available free […]

Dec

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JISC YouTube Channel

December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Hussar! Now JISCness will be available through a dedicated channel on YouTube. Of course it won’t all be there immediately but thanks to the Peeblemeister it will all start appearing shortly and then we can sort of out by themes or whatever to make it more sensible…

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Online Educa 08 - Roger Larsen

December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

Roger Larsen, Fronter, Norway
Learning Together
Frankly an unwelcome and unnecessary advert for far too long at the start of his presentation, this seems quite an insult to the previous speakers who were trying to present new and/or interesting issues. I appreciate that the conference needs sponsors but they should not be mixed with more […]

Dec

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Online Educa 08- Norbert Bolz

December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Prof Norbert Bolz, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
From Knowledge Management to Identity Management
Bolz outlined five key concepts:

Serious Play

It is becoming harder to distinguish between tools and toys and younger people are best able to exploit this. Bolz feels that this deals with the issue of ‘paradise of work’ or how it […]

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Online Educa 08- Michael Wesch

December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

Dr Michael Wesch, Asst Prof  of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University, USA
The Crisis of Significance and the Future of Education
Clearly the fact that the hall was packed with people sitting on the floor means that many were here to hear Michael Wesch – an outstanding speaker – engaging, interesting and relevant. Ok maybe what he […]

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Online Educa 08 - Joseph Pierre Ndiay

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Joseph Pierre Ndiaye, Permanent Sec to Minister of Education in Senegal – host of Online Africa 20009Presentation in French with subtitlesSenegal faces a range of problems but education is seen as a vital motor for economic development. Senegal is now devoting 40 % of resources (?) towards education. They feel that they need to consider […]

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Online Educa 2008 - Day 1

December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Educa 2008 has attracted 2064 delegates from 92 countries with the Dutch delegation of 237 and the UK delegation 247 being the largest groups after the Germans.
This is JISC’s fifth (?) time at Educa and this time without partnering SURF who were unable to attend. We were however next to the Dutch Open University to […]