hether it be the "just share already" criticism of formal projects, the observations that OER seem to continue institutional and educational silos, critiques of repositories and metadata; critiques about the quality of OER that currently exist; critiques that the 'remix and reuse' that are part of the promise of OER don't match with the reality of the educational process
Welsh universities commit to sharing course material online - 0 views
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An actual post on OERs this time. The article is from 2013 and on how: "Wales has become one of the first nations to agree to make university course material publicly available so that academics do not have to create their lectures from scratch."
Article on using assignment submission analytics to help students - 2 views
"Spotting "procrastinators" early on in the first year and helping them to improve their study habits could improve grades, said the study's co-author David Arnott, principal teaching fellow in mar...
Twelve technologies set to revolutionise higher education - 2 views
Another article from Times Higher Education.... http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/twelve-technologies-set-to-revolutionise-higher-education-in-australiaand-beyond/2013566.article
Free 384-page e-book on 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online - 0 views
http://tec-variety.com Covers creating a safe tone or climate, learner engagement, online collaboration, interactivity, encouragement and feedback, learner autonomy, goal setting and ways to suppo...
Technology Supported Learning (TSL) for Formative Assessment | Oraifige | Engineering E... - 2 views
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This link doesn't work any more.
Taking a Departmental Approach to E-learning Support - 0 views
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Useful tips for embedding elearning in this case study.
Digital Scholarship | Open Educational Resources (OERs) for digital scholars - 2 views
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Another excellent site built around OERS - this time more aimed at undergraduates
Ready to Research | Open Educational Resources (OERs) for research students - 1 views
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Very interesting looking use of OERs for research students
http://ocw.athabascau.ca/course/view.php?id=3 - 1 views
Mobile learning and pervasive computing - some thoughts from Athabascau University in Canada.
Learning, Teaching and Technologies - 4 views
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I am posting this on behalf of Helen Davies. Please have a look at this website. In particular, check out the Activities of Initial grounding; eLearning starting points; Claims about eLearning and Developing eLearning. They are all very useful (PDF format so can download) all CC licenced.
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Looking at these I think they would be helpful if we wanted to use them, as they seem to be activities that can be undertaken as part of a unit on online learning.
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Looking at this is is good for e learning but appears to be classroom based activities, a wealth of information though. Could be adapted with work to an online course.
Using online assessment to replace invigilated assessment NZ - 2 views
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Interesting paper and could be used to justify using time limited, first pass on-line assessment instead of exams.
Latest News | Embedding Open Educational Resources - 2 views
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This is another test of Diigo's functionality
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edtechpost - Critiques of Open Education Resources - 4 views
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Actually, I'm just testing Diigo's functionality. But there are some good points here.
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OER aren't getting used:
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Interesting piece, Julian.
Open educational resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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or teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone.[1] As a mode for content creation and sharing, OER alone cannot a
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course materials
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I'm really just playing around so that I can find out about Diigo - it's not a service I normally use so please ignore anything I post for the next hour or so!
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Please ignore - I'm just learning about Diigo
1091 Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online - 1 views
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May be useful?
1081 The Role of Presence in the Online Environment - 0 views
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"In this chapter we discussed why fostering feelings of "being there" and "being together" are so important in creating online presence, and we provided an overview of the current research on presence. We also defined the concept of presence and explained the difference between presence and engagement, as well as the social, psychological, and emotional aspects of presence in the online environment.
Open Research Online - Online communication and collaboration: A Reader - 1 views
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Also on behalf of Helen Davies. This is a link to the abstract of a review of Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader.
