Digital by Default

Digital by Default

[JISC] Weeknote 14/33

A big part of the focus of this week was on OER matters again – which is good as I am finding myself more and more interested in this area of activity. I wrote a couple of blogposts; one on my work blog outlining some issues and achievements on the technical side of our OER…

May 22, 2010
We’ll Meet Again (and Again, and Again..)

One way or another I attend an awful lot of meetings. More than most people probably but less some some unlucky souls. Some are interesting, some are simply dull and others are damn right painful. Very few are fun. In my opinion even less are genuinely useful. I used to see them as a necessary…

May 16, 2010
RDFa and OER DiscoverEd

I have been quite open about my struggles with Linked Data but I have recently decided to focus on the bit of it closer to the web, the RDFa/XHTML stuff that has similarities to the microformat stuff I embraced a few years ago. Pete recently wrote an extremely helpful post over at eFoundations that got…

May 16, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 13/33

God this felt like a long week! Have just tracked through my email a bit as I’m struggling a bit remember the beginning of the week. I know I spent some time arranging to get some publicity for a report we commissioned via some USA based partners – I’ve been a bit slow in making…

May 15, 2010
Collecting OERs

One of the upcoming bits of work I am pretty excited about is once again in the realm of Open Education Resources (OERs) and in particular the second element of Strand C of the upcoming programme of work ‘Enhancing the discovery and reuse of OER materials – Collections of OER based around a thematic area’…

May 14, 2010