Open Learning Network

General

Karen has set up an OLnet podcast area on the KMI server.  There are two podcasts in it so far:

1. Presentations by OLnet Fellows: http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/OLnet_Fellows (which has Scott’s IET Coffee Morning Presentation)
2. All of the presentations from the Learning in an Open World Conference in June 2010 http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/OUConf10

Please feel free to promote these links through your networks. The set up is that a podcast is made up of a number of videos and it can be subscribed to as an RSS feed to be alerted when new videos are added.  The advantage of this hosting over YouTube is that YouTube has a limit of 10 minutes, whereas much longer videos can be hosted here.

Giota has added a reflective blog post (http://olnet.org/node/460) from a webinar event on 27 July 2010 linked to the linked to the Next Gen Learning Challenges initiative (see: http://www.nextgenlearning.com/).

£1k each for 10 best UK OER case studies submitted by 1 Nov, 750 word template: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/08/oer2bii.aspx

Events

The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) Annual Conference hosted by Distance Learning University Switzerland, will be held in Zermatt, Switzerland on the 27-29 September.  See: http://www.icde.org/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=1549

The Mozilla Drumbeat Festival (3-5 Nov 2010 Barcelona) "is not your typical conference. Imagine a folk festival combined with a teach in with a dash of outstanding oratory thrown in for good measure. That's the plan." See: http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010

Useful Links

Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of Mozillians who *use* web technology in new ways to understand, participate and take control of their online lives. See Wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat

Drumbeat Wiki page for Open Education projects:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/open_education 

MetaOER Project: creating an OER repository – using web 2.0 collaborative tools such as del.icio.us, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is hosting Cátedra, UNESCO's Open Repository as part of a project currently underway to create a centralized and accessible repository for resources about OER.  See: http://www.icde.org/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=1589