Tag Archives: event

OA Conference in India

Posted on March 27, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Amulya Gopalakrishnan reports at IndiaExpress.com an open access conference occurred recently in India. The details are regarding the conference are sparse, but the article does provide an update on open access in India. From the article:

Now, after years of weary negotiation, and empowered by new digital infrastructure, universities are teaming up via free institutional repository systems, to pool and circulate their collective research. In India, institutes like NIT Rourkela have adopted super-archives like DSpace for another reason — to showcase their scientific output to global peers. “NIT doesn’t have the research legacy of IIT or IISC — they needed the visibility,” says NIT director Sunil Kumar Sarangi.

→ 1 Comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , ,

Open Education Conference 2009 Call for Papers

Posted on March 25, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Jane Park, at Creative Commons, reports that the Open Education Conference 2009 is now accepting papers. In a change of format from previous years there will be three “strands,” including the following (listing from the article):

  1. Open Ed – Startup Camp
  2. Open Ed – Sustaining Steps
  3. Open Ed – The Future

More information is available on the Open Education Conference website. David Wiley also has an announcement on his blog.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , , ,

Folksemantic Online Meeting

Posted on March 20, 2009 by | Leave a comment

David Wiley notes on his blog that development on the “folksemantic” tools is still ongoing. Wiley discusses an invitation he received to participate in a March 26 online meeting regarding the integration of OCW Finder, OER Recommender and Luvfoo. More about the meeting can be found on the OER Recommender site. From Wiley’s blog post:

If I may say so, the OER Recommender is probably one of the single most valuable pieces of OER technology in existence today. I hope to see you at the online meeting where we can learn where these tools are going next. If I know the COSL folks, they’ll be headed to incredible places…

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , , ,

Mozilla Open Education Course Announced

Posted on March 19, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Phillipp Schmidt has announced on his blog an upcoming open education course. The course is a collaborative effort between the P2PU, CCLearn and Mozilla. There is room for 20 participants and the course will last six weeks. From the course home page on the MozillaWiki:

Participation is open to anyone with an interest in the open education platform of the future. We are asking participants to tell us a little bit about their backgrounds, and sketch out an idea for the project they’d like to work on during the course.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , ,

OER Student Team Participating in Clinton Global Initiative

Posted on March 17, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Susan Topel of Open.Michigan is reporting that four of its students are participating in the Clinton Global initiative. The purpose of the Clinton Global initiative is to bring together world leaders to discuss global problems. The U-M students proposal is to make health OER available in Ghana, South Africa and Liberia. From the blog post:

The inadequate density and distribution of healthcare providers negatively affects health outcomes around the globe. In Africa in particular, too few health care professionals are being trained to meet local needs. A key barrier in both developed and developing countries is the lack of instructor capacity to teach both basic and clinical sciences, complicated by the duplication of effort in developing learning materials that can be shared as OER.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , ,

Cloudworks Working at Hewlett Monterey Meeting

Posted on March 10, 2009 by | Leave a comment

The Hewlett Foundation recently completed its annual conference on Open Educational Resources in Monterey, California. As part of the conference attendees used a new website, Cloudworks. Cloudworks allows users to create “Clouds” or an organization of media, links, comments etc. on a particular topic. It is funded by the Open University and JISC. The site is in its early stages and is built on Drupal, an open-source CMS. More from Patrick McAndrew at his blog OCHRE:

The aim was to create a conference experience that persists and it delivered: there is now a great collection of comments, clouds, interviews and feedback on cloudworks for the OER Meeting, Monterey discussions.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , , ,

Open Access Week Announced for 2009

Posted on March 7, 2009 by | Leave a comment

According to the newsletter ResourceShelf, Open Access Week for 2009 will take place October 19-23. Open Access Week is a series of events held across campuses worldwide to raise awareness of Open Access. From the SPARC announcement:

“There’s no more certain sign of the momentum behind Open Access to research than an annual, global celebration of this scale,” added Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. “Occasions like this are the best possible way to attract attention from busy faculty members and administrators, and to demonstrate the widespread appeal of Open Access. It’s SPARC’s pleasure to be working with our partners to realize the event once again this year.”

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , , ,

DECOM 2008 debates the future for educational publishing

Posted on November 10, 2008 by | Leave a comment

The Digital Educational Content Marketplaces conference- DECOM 2008 held in Sestri Levante, Italy- deliberated on the future of educational publishing. Snippets from the Press release:

According to Vijay Kumar, Senior Associate Dean [at MIT], the traditional educational model has been based on scaricty and assumed limited educational resources.

Today, he said, the development and availability of open education resources are challenging these assumptions and suggest that that model is changing. This movement is making learning materials more widely accessible – although there are issues related to quality and secondary use, to be addressed.

Kumar was addressing over 100 top level executives – from the learning content industry, international publishing firms, corporate training providers and academic stakeholders engaged in both publishing and open courseware initiatives in schools, universities and corporate training, together with Government policy makers throughout Europe – who were debating the future of the learning content industry and, in particular, its ability to adapt to, and exploit fully, a new generation of educational content production, management, sharing and distribution models.

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged ,

Feedback on EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Posted on October 31, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Jeffrey Young, via the The Wired Campus blog- Chronicle, featured a story about this year’s EDUCAUSE Conference. Snippets:

Educause conference was as big as ever. The organization, which focuses on higher-education, drew more than 7,300 people to its annual meeting, but the sluggish economy was evident in the exhibit hall — many technology companies that usually tout their coolest new gadgets here instead focused their pitches on how their products could save colleges money.

The cost-cutting theme also emerged in several sessions. (This year Educause made video from select sessions available live, and then archived the videos immediately afterward, so you can see the best talks for yourself.)

One keynote speaker, Sarah B. Robbins-Bell, issued a warning to professors that unless they adapt to new teaching methods with technology, they could become irrelevant because students can find places other than traditional universities to learn.

“Learning is changing,” she said. “Many of the benefits of institutional learning can now be accomplished via social media. If we’re not careful, social media will replace us. If we don’t realize that things are shifting and embrace those shifts, we will be left behind. We will become useless.”

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , ,

Winner of the ‘Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year’ Award Announced

Posted on October 27, 2008 by | Leave a comment

JISC proclaimed the winner of its “Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year” award for 2008. The award, hailed for its “commitment to open access to online content”, attracted 40 entries, one of the highest this year. Snippets:

An initiative that has created a wealth of openly available multimedia content won the JISC/Times Higher Award at a prestigious ceremony in central London last night. University of Westminster lecturer Russell Stannard received the award from Sir Ron Cooke, Chair of JISC, for his websites which build upon pioneering work using video to mark students’ work.

‘I’m absolutely delighted, it’s a real privilege. It was important to me that the sites are openly available to everyone in the world.’ – Winner Russell StannardUsing screen recording software, Stannard recorded himself walking through various Web 2.0 technologies with a voice-over, which were then uploaded to a newly-created website – www.teachertrainingvideos.com. The site quickly proved popular and rapidly built into a bank of over 30 videos with lecturers frequently requesting new topics. The other shortlisted entries were:

→ Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged , , ,