A few weeks ago I had the idea to try and arrange a bit of a meetup in London the evening before DKs shiny showcase conference for the UK Open Education Resources programme that JISC and the HE Academy have been running. In a lot of ways the aim was to try and do something…… Continue reading UKOER10 Fringe
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CC Salon NYC – Open Education
I was browsing the Creative Commons website (as one does!) and was particularly taken with the idea of the CC Salons’ – small, local events based around themes of interest to the Creative Commons community. They seem to mainly be evening events not dissimilar to what Mike does with Bathcamp and I think that is…… Continue reading CC Salon NYC – Open Education
Google Prediction API and OER Discovery?
Last week at the Google I/O event Google released all manner of geeky toys for developers to play with and the tech blogosphere is doing the usual job of picking them apart and focusing on opportunities to make a dollar (or $50million). The one that struck me as interesting was the Google Prediction API. To…… Continue reading Google Prediction API and OER Discovery?
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…… Continue reading RDFa and OER DiscoverEd
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’…… Continue reading Collecting OERs
Digital by Default 