Open Learning Network

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua3-pSNzYTQ

In the week of June 20-24th, the OLnet team will be actively hosting a discussion forum on the on the WSIS (World Summit Information Society) UNESCO community platform.

Main aim of the discussion is to elicit your reactions to the current version of the OLnet Evidence Hub for Open Education.

OLnet's Simon Buckingham Shum & Anna De Liddo gave a seminar at the Palo Alto Research Institute (PARC), renowned for its ground-breaking computing R&D in many fields, including Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext and Sensemaking.

I recently attended a CETIS one-day event to support the development of collections of open education resources. The day was to look at technical issues around collecting and using third-party OER content in a repository (drawing on the work of the ICoper project) and to look at issues around creating and providing dynamic collections of OERs (event link).

The first Cohere Workshop was held on Wednesday 9 June 2010, in KMi (Knowldge Media Institute) at the Open University (Milton Keynes, UK).

The Cohere workshop had the main objective to make OLnet team members more familiar with Cohere. It ran for 3 and ½ hours and it was organized in three stages: