Open Learning Network

General team news

Scott Leslie arrived as an Olnet Fellow and will be with the team in Milton Keynes until 22 July.  He just missed Svetlana Knyazeva who left on Friday after a month's visit.

Scott is doing a talk at the IET Coffee morning (10:30 Wednesday 14 July) on the Open Educator as DJ.

Simon and Anna are at ODET 2010 in Leeds this week see: http://olnet.org/node/368 http://cloudworks.ac.uk//cloudscape/view/2099 and http://olnet.org/odet2010

You are invited to virtually attend an Open Educational Resources (OER) symposium on 5 July 2010 with the Beyond Distance Research Alliance (BDRA) from the University of Leicester.  See: http://olnet.org/node/410

Michelle attended the Mozilla add-ons workshop on Wed 30 June and has blogged about it here: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/bachler/?p=176

Andreia gave a presentation at the OER and LabSpace: from OER content to OER community on 29th June 2010 (see: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/news/oer-and-labspace-oer-content-oer-community-29th-june-2010). 

Links of interest

Andreia passed on this information: "Researchers now have a tool offering translations of open-access material in nine major languages:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412163&c=1"

Calls for Papers

Deadline: 24 September 2010 CAL (Computer Assisted Learning) Conference 2011  13 April 2011 - 15 April 2011 Manchester, UK see: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4088