Joseph Thibault has a new post noting that Open University has chosen Moodle 2.0 as its next LMS.
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Open University Chooses Moodle 2.0
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Tagged higher education, open source, open university, openness, OU
Open University and Google
Uk Indymedia has a new post that is critical of the Open University for partnering with Google. From the post:
Students and staff data are hosted by Google and managed by the OU under European Data Protection and US Safe Harbor legislation. There are significant differences, however, between commercial companies’ and educational establishments’ approaches to privacy and copyright issues.
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Tagged higher education, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness, OU
Open University Conference
Martin Weller has a new post providing information about the upcoming Open University Conference. From the post:
The conference is the 22nd and 23rd June. There are four sessions, each around a particular area: Open Content, Open Learning, Open Teaching and Open Access.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, Open Education, open university, OU
Digital Scholarship at Open University
Matt Jukes has a new post on openness and scholarship activity. From the post:
There are alot of parallels between this activity and many of the ideals of openness that JISC supports across our work. It certainly seems to be close to both the Open Access and Open Education agendas.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, OATP, online learning, open content, Open Education, open university, openness, OU
Open University Facebook Apps
Tony Hirst has a new post about the Open University’s revised Facebook app strategy. From the post:
For those who don’t remember the apps we developed, there were two: Course Profiles, which allowed students to declare the courses that had taken were taking and intended to take, and then provided a range of services around that information (find friends on a course, find a study buddy, link to course information or course related OpenLearn resources, get course recommendations); and My OU Story, where students could maintain a “status diary” about their progress on a course, along with a mood indicator so they could track their mood over a course, and other app users could add supportive comments.
Reaction to Open University Transition
Yesterday OEN reported on the Open University’s decision to move to Google apps. Leigh Blackall responds:
Don’t get me wrong, I reckon Google is the better call over Live or even SharePoint, but re: them all I can’t really see the point. Its a bit like providing email addresses to people who already have email addresses. No! its exactly the same. Why do we bother?
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Tagged higher education, open content, Open Education, open source, open university, OU
Open University to Use Google Apps
Tony Hirst is announcing that the Open University will be moving to Google apps. From the post:
As and when this rolls out, it’ll be interesting to see what students do with it, and to what extent OU developers start developing around the apps. As far as the VLE goes, I’d be interested to know whether the powers that be are keen for us to look at ways of integrating Google services into our course delivery.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, Open Education, open university, OU, policy
Open University Hits 10 Million Downloads on iTunes
Vicky Woollaston is reporting that the Open University has reached 10 million downloads on iTunes.
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Tagged e-learning, open content, open university, openness, OU
Impressions of Open University
“alibrown18″ has a new post on being hired by the Open University. From the post:
Even for those not studying formally, the OU makes itself felt. Each week, there are around 50 000 downloads of OU podcasts from iTunes. Two million people access the freely available teaching and learning materials from the Open Learn website. Millions more watch OU supported television programmes, such as the BBC’s Coast.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, Open Education, open university, OU
