Open Learning Network

General team news

Grainne was at Edmedia conference in Toronto on 1st July giving a keynote presentation in which she mentioned Olnet.  For further details of her presentation see: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4092

Presentations from the joint SCORE & eLC event on the 29th June 2010, Explorations around Labspace: From OER content to OER community? are now available online.  For further details of these presentations see: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/events/oer-and-labspace-oer-content-oer-community. Andreia's presentation as part of this event is also available on slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/olnetchannel/20100629-4672267

Patrick and Candace have been asked by Terry Anderson of Athabasca University to do a webcast about OLnet for Open Access Week (18-24 October 2010). Patrick has offered additional support in the form of running a cloudspace/Elluminate hybrid like the 'Learning in and Open World' online Conference
See: http://olnet.org/node/425 for details of Open Access Week.

Karen has been finalising details of the OLnet-TESSA Fellowships.  There will be four Fellowships offered to candidates from Sub Saharan Africa and the hope is that the guidelines will be finalised and public by the end of the week/early next week and the closing date will be Monday 20 September 2010.

Karen and Martin are writing up their experiences of and lessons from organising the 'Learning in an Open World' online conference and are working with Rebecca Fergusson analysing the participation data received from Elluminate, Cloudworks, Twitter and Google Analytics.

Events to note

On Wednesday 14th July our current OLnet Fellow, Scott Leslie will be presenting at the IET Coffee Morning.  The title of his presentation is The Open Educator as DJ - Towards a Practice of Educational Remix.  For further information see: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2140
 

Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) free conference 1 October 2010 ULCC at Senate House, London see: http://olnet.org/node/424

Useful Links

Some presentations from the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning in Barcelona, November 30 - December 1, 2009:

Stephen Downes – The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning
http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/01072010/stephen-downes-the-role-of-open-educational-resources-in-personal-learning/

George Siemens – Connectivism: Socializing Open Learning
http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/23062010/george-siemens-connectivism-socializing-open-learning/

Virtual post-it board - someone must be able to think of a use for this tool? Example from Martin Weller: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/digschol

From Elpida (a while ago): Europeana is an EU funded project with links to more than 6 million digital items, here is the link for more information http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html

Are these proceedings of use to people in the team interested in tracking and data mining? Baker, R.S.J.d., Merceron, A., Pavlik, P.I. Jr. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Available as PDF download: http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2010/?page_id=278

Martin Weller slidecast "Thoughts on Digital Scholarship" http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/thoughts-on-digital-scholarship

ALT wiki "What research has to say for practice" http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice

The DE Hub Database of Research on Distance Education is a searchable web database containing details of 6,265 books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of distance education and distance learning from publishers in Australia and overseas. http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/textbase/drde/drde.html