Open Learning Network

Andreas Meiszner and Jose Carvalho are interviewed by Tina Wilson from the OLnet team at an OpenSE project meeting held in Greece in July 2010. Andreas and Jose talk about the Open Software Engineering (OpenSE) project from each of their perspectives.

Andreas Meiszner from the Open Software Engineering (OpenSE) project. See the video clip at: http://vimeo.com/18147786

Jose Carvalho from the Open Software Engineering (OpenSE) project. See the video clip at:

The OLnet team were very priveleged to have both Cathy Casserley and Kathy Nicholson visit the team last week.

Cathy Casserley of the Carnegie Foundation was with us as a Visiting Fellow.

Kathy Nicholson of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation visited to be updated on OLnet's progress. .

Engin Kursun (OLnet Visiting Fellow) presented the following paper at the AECT conference in California in 2010 and the session was attended by David Wiley who asked follow up questions.
 

The OU OLnet team will have a strong presence in Barcelona next week -- the most exciting place to be on the planet for open learning!

OLnet's Tina Wilson and TERG's Giselle Ferreira have successfully bid to the HEA Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences to develop a new project entitled: Using Open Educational Resources and Web 2.0 Tools to support Ethical Reasoning in ICS Project-Based Learning.

 If you are attending the ECTEL conference in Nice 29th Sept - 2nd Oct why not book a place at the OLnet workshop 'WS3: Adapting Open Educational Resources: Lessons, issues and methods'. The OLnet workshop will be held on either 29th or 30th Sept at ECTEL 2009 conference in Nice

Giota Alevizou joined OLnet yesterday as a researcher. She will be working in the main with Grainne Conole and Patrick McAndrew.

Elpida Makriyanni has joined OLnet today as a researcher. She will be working in the main with Patrick McAndrew and Doug Clow.

The conference workshop at EDEN 2009 (10th – 13th June) was well received and well attended (25 participants). One workshop participant commented: ‘Commendable approach which could be attractive to learning designers or faculty members’.

In parallel we were running another workshop at the CSCL 2009 conference.

Two new researchers will be joining OLnet over the next few weeks.

Professor Yannis Dimitriadis

So far we have been:
• having weekly meetings for updates, to make plans for events and discuss progress,
• discussing research questions,
• recruiting new staff
• submitting abstracts and papers
• running workshops both internally and externally
• enhancing OLnet.org

Up and coming conference workshop in June - EDEN 2009