Weekly update w/c 30th August 2010; Team news, info and useful links

General

OLnet's Andreia Inamorato dos Santos took part in a round table discussing ‘OER as Learning Objects’ at the 16th International Conference on Distance Education – ABED (Brazilian Association for Distance Education) using Flashmeeting on the 2nd September 2010.

Andreia's presentation, given in Portuguese, can be seen here: http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/fmmp.php?pwd=ac37ce-22660.  For further details of the conference see: http://www.abed.org.br/congresso2010/programa.asp

A video of Scott Leslie's presentation to the OLnet team about his project during his time as OLnet fellow in July 2010 has been uploaded to our podcast area: http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/OLnet_Fellows

Useful Links

Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Open Social Learning:

Proposed Q&A site for people interested in using open educational resources to learn. This is the place to ask questions, get answers, and find others to learn with: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16633/open-social-learning?referrer=QKhpxSQxKmoy_v9KoThT3A2