Open Learning Network

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

Graínne Conole and Elsebeth Sorensen are collaborating on a paper for a special journal issue on the notion of creativity in the context of Open Educational Resources
 

Sixth EDEN research workshop
To be held 25-27 October 2010 in Budapest, Hungary, the call for papers is now open. Researchers, practitioners and experts in evaluation and quality, developers of online assessment, and test users are invited to share their experience about this highly innovative e-learning field. One of the strategic aims of the workshop is to provide the opportunity for young researchers to present their work.

Event added, see: http://olnet.org/node/60 - This Seminar will cover both the start up of an OCW initiative from the TU Delft perspective and the options for an OCW follow-up in the Netherlands. OCWC director Mary-Lou Forward will be the Key-note speaker. You can find more information (such as a program overview) on http://ocw.tudelft.nl/ocw-seminar 

The first OLnet Expert Fellow, Yannis Dimitriadis, has finished his fellowship and returned to work at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He worked with Grainne Conole on the way in which patterns can feed into designs for OER. In particular an approach is being piloted that takes established patterns for collaborative group work and uses this to generate new activities based on OER. This approach has been used as the basis for a series of workshops to communicate and test the ideas.

The workshop will introduce participants to a range of tools, methods and approaches to designing and evaluating Open Educational Resources (OERs). The session will explore how learning design and pedagogical pattern methodologies can be used to help with the more effective design and reuse of resources. Examples will be taken from existing free and open resources, such as the OERs in available in OpenLearn.