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Introducing Professor Patrick McAndrew

Wed, 25/04/2012 - 12:36 — KarenC

IET's Director, Josie Taylor says "I am delighted to announce that Patrick McAndrew has been promoted to a Chair in Open Education!

Well done Prof McAndrew – richly deserved recognition of an excellent profile of work in OER both nationally and internationally."

The video below is Professor Patrick McAndrew's Presentation to IET Technology Coffee Morning: "Open Learning Network - the evidence of OER impact" on 6 July 2011 (see http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2267).

Bye everybody and keep in touch

Wed, 18/04/2012 - 13:33 — KarenC
Goodbye card design by Karen Cropper, on Flickr

Publication: Achieving impact in Africa through openness

Wed, 28/03/2012 - 11:59 — KarenC

Image of report coverPauline Ngimwa was commissioned by the Open Learning Network (OLnet) project to review the experiences and outputs of six fellows from Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). In 2011, the OLnet project partnered with the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) project to offer six fellowships to scholars and educational professionals with an interest in researching open educational resources (OER) and their use to support teacher education.

Policy Forum on ‘Mainstreaming Open Educational Practices’

Wed, 07/03/2012 - 17:38 — KarenC

14 November, 2011, Paris, France

The forum is addressing the important topic of mainstreaming of open educational practices into higher education and adult education. It is part of the UNESCO supported Open Educational Quality Initiative OPAL.

STEM Annual Conference 2012

Wed, 07/03/2012 - 17:20 — KarenC

12-13 April 2012, Imperial College London, UK

The Higher Education Academy’s (HEA) first annual learning and teaching STEM conference will take place on 12 and 13 April 2012 at Imperial College London, one of the world's leading centres of excellence for teaching and research in the fields of science, technology and medicine.

Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting 2012

Wed, 07/03/2012 - 11:48 — KarenC

Cambridge, MA April 10-12, 2012.

Claims garden by olnetchannel, on Flickr

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, are organising the Hewlett Foundation's 2012 Open Educational Resources Grantees Meeting, which will take place in Cambridge, MA on April 10-12, 2012.  Contributors will include a multidisciplinary group of grantees, teachers, administrators, hackers, advocates, funders, and policymakers. (Image 'Claims Garden' at Hewlett Grantees Meeting in 2011 Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License  by  olnetchannel )

OLnet, Bridge to Success and SCORE projects educate OU colleagues about OER at Learnabout Fair

Wed, 29/02/2012 - 15:36 — KarenC

Three OER related projects that the Open University is involved in shared a stand at the Open University's Learnabout Fair today (29 February 2012) to let Open University colleagues learn more about open education and the specific elements of these projects - OLnet, Bridge to Success and SCORE.  There was a live demo of the Evidence Hub.

High quality higher education in an increasingly more open and online world

Mon, 27/02/2012 - 13:35 — patrick

Patrick McAndrew from OLnet will be speaking at the ICDE organised conference on "High quality higher education in an increasingly more open and online world" in Oslo, Norway, 27-28 February, 2012.

Open Education Week March 5-10, 2012

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 14:00 — KarenC

Patrick McAndrew Video presentation for Open Education Week

Publication: "Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development and Innovation"

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 14:48 — KarenC

Publication coverFormer OLnet Researcher, Andreia Inamorato Dos Santos has recently written a publication for UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) titled "Open Educational Resources in Brazil: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development and Innovation".

Best Practice Criteria for Sustainable E-Learning 1 Nov 2011

Wed, 16/11/2011 - 13:15 — KarenC

Best Practice Criteria for Sustainable E-Learning event took place on 1st November 2011

Video available of 3 presentations (just over an hour).
1) Economic Best Practice Criteria Andrew Lane, Professor of Environmental Systems, Open University and Director, SusTeach
2) Pedagogic Best Practice Criteria Dr. Doug Clow, Lecturer in Interactive Media Development, Open University
3) Environmental Best Practice Criteria Peter James, Professor of Environmental Management, University of Bradford and Director, Virtually Sustainable

Evaluation Tool for Aligning OER To Common Core Standards at OER Commons

Wed, 16/11/2011 - 10:44 — elpida

Achieve and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) have announced a new tool for users to rate the quality of OER for teaching and student learning. The tool will allow educators to rate the quality of these resources for teaching and student learning, align these resources to the Common Core State Standards, and evaluate the extent to which the individual resources align to specific standards.

UNESCO Policy Forum - Mainstreaming Open Educational Practices (OPAL, CONCEDE)

Tue, 15/11/2011 - 15:04 — elpida

 Mainstreaming Open Educational Practice

 UNESCO Joint policy forum of the OPAL and CONCEDE Projects

Image of UNESCO building

Key messages from the event on 14 Nov 2011:

SmartHistory is teaming up with the Khan Academy

Thu, 20/10/2011 - 14:44 — elpida

Over the past few years SmartHistory.org has been growing fast. Content and usage numbers are way up (visits are now over 150,000 per month) and Beth Harris and Steven Zucker as well as their team have been working hard to make the site an indispensable resource for students and informal learners. At the same time, they have been actively looking for similar initiatives and tthe one that they were most excited about was the Khan Academy.

What are the Key Challenges for the OER Movement?

Mon, 10/10/2011 - 14:53 — deliddoa

We have a new project challenge here at OLnet. Defining:

Presenting OLnet (Youtube recorded presentation)

Sun, 02/10/2011 - 08:45 — patrick

This recording is of a presentation by Patrick McAndrew given in July 2011 at The Open University. The youtube recording lasts about 45 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJum2QebRE

Twitter tags for OER in Brazil

Wed, 21/09/2011 - 13:27 — philosopher1978

Here is a list of the Twitter hashtags commonly used to discuss OER in Brazil...

@reanetbr
#rea
#reanetbr
#reabr
#oer

 

Recent visiting OLnet Fellows

Thu, 08/09/2011 - 11:56 — KarenC

The following OLnet Fellows are visiting the Open University in September/October 2011:

Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/olnet-oer-research

Wed, 07/09/2011 - 16:23 — KarenC

We are curating OER Research related links using Scoop.it.  The most recent 10 stories are scrolling above.  Please visit http://www.scoop.it/t/olnet-oer-research to see earlier stories.

Grainne Conole has left the building

Wed, 07/09/2011 - 13:53 — KarenC

Eileen Scanlon and Grainne Conole

The OLnet project is sorry to see Grainne Conole leaving the Open University and moving to Leicester University.  The connections will still be there, but she won't be as directly involved in OLnet.  We all wish her well in her new role.

Olnet Facebook page

Tue, 06/09/2011 - 16:39 — KarenC

I am not really a big Facebook user.  I really only use it for connecting with my 'real' friends and family.  I have set up a page for OLnet, though.