Open Learning Network

General

Your Ideas: What could Search Engines Do (to Make Finding Educational Content Easier). The Question: Could commercial search engines do a better job? What could a commercial search engine, or search engine company, do to make organizing, finding and accessing educational content easier and more effective?  To give your comments, ideas see: http://www.learningregistry.org/news/yourideaswhatcouldsearchenginesdotomakefindingeducationalcontenteasier

http://bit.ly/90Jkyg. The report offers a summary of strand activities and also includes individual strand synthesis work too.

Events

Seminar examining the use of evidence in learning and teaching practices with technology - Led by Linda Price & Adrian Kirkwood

Date: Wednesday 29th September 2010, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm, Venue:The Open University, Jennie Lee Building, Milton Keynes.  Attendance is free and you can by emailing c.griffiths@open.ac.uk by 20th September 2010. For further information see http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2010/jointevents/29_Sept_10_PLATP
 

The HEA Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine is holding an conference for the Open Educational Resources in the disciplines: a joint Academy Subject Strand conference. 1 day event - 26 October 2010 from 10:00 until 16:00 see: http://www.medev.ac.uk/news/4491/view/

This one day event will showcase work by Subject Centres from the Subject Strand of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Open Educational Resources (OER) Phase One programme (14/08), including:

• Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre (www.health.heacademy.ac.uk)
• Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (www.medev.ac.uk)
• UK Centre for Bioscience (www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk)
• UK Centre for Legal Education (www.ukcle.ac.uk)

September Webinar
Lila Bailey, Counsel of Creative Commons gave a webinar on «Using Creative Commons Licenses for OCW» in August. You can view the video file here: http://vimeo.com/14384339. The September webinar is a continuation of the ongoing discussion about the need for a guideline to using open licenses for OCW/OER. There will be a working group starting to create this guideline, and anyone who is interested in contributing to this is welcome to participate. The September webinar—September 2nd, at 10AM EDT—will be the first meeting for this working group and will serve as a round table discussion. To participate go to http://breezemeeting.asu.edu/ocwc

UKOER Evaluation and Synthesis Final Report is now available online on the team wiki