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Nigel Robertson

The FNF - Free Information, Free Culture, Free Society | The Free Network Foundation - 1 views

  • We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown.We promote freedoms, support innovations and advocate technologies that enhance and enable digital self-determination.
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    We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown.We promote freedoms, support innovations and advocate technologies that enhance and enable digital self-determination.
Nigel Robertson

The Writing Researcher | postgraduate studies team blog - 1 views

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    The Writing Researcher is a new open activity which aims to bring researchers from different disciplines, institutions and countries together to share their writing and provide peer-feedback ina rather informal, friendly environment. ... As it reads in the blog we have set up for the project, The Writing Researcher: Inspiration, Creativity, Fluency  aims to: 1. promote and support writing as a creative, scholarly and collaborative enterprise, 2. encourage discussion and peer feedback in a distributed, shared environment, 3. establish an international, inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural peer network.
Nigel Robertson

Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    Interesting description of using Google Docs in a writing class and then using Forms to support a peer review process.
Nigel Robertson

New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures - 0 views

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    Eric Mazur has swapped the nature of teaching and non-contact time and released it as a software. "The basic idea is that the bulk of information consumption should be done outside the classroom and in-class time should be spent doing guided, measured, optimized peer-to-peer discussion in order to maximize retention of knowledge"
Stephen Harlow

Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online | Teacher Network Blog... - 0 views

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    "Feedback, group work and a visible papertrail are all effortless gains. Display student work for class discussion, comment on student posts as feedback; set homework to post short peer critiques; devise project tasks requiring reading multiple peers' work and synthesising an overview with linked references."
Stephen Harlow

YouTube U. Beats YouSnooze Through - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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    "Why aren't students watching lectures on their own, at their own pace, in their dorms? Why aren't we using the 300-person gathering at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday as an opportunity for active peer-to-peer instruction rather than a passive, one-size-fits-all lecture?"
Dean Stringer

Open Cobalt Website - 1 views

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    "Open Cobalt Alpha is the first step in a long term project to make available to all people a free and open source platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual workspaces for research and education. This 3D multimedia wiki technology makes it easy to create deeply collaborative and hyperlinked multi-user virtual workspaces, virtual exhibit spaces, and game-based learning and training environments that run on all major software operating systems. By using a peer-based messaging protocol to reduce reliance on server infrastructures for support of basic in world interactions across many participants, Open Cobalt makes it possible for people hyperlink their virtual worlds via 3D portals to form a large distributed network of interconnected collaboration spaces. It also makes it possible for schools and other organizations to freely set up their own networks of public and private 3D virtual workspaces that feature integrated web browsing, voice chat, text chat, and access to remote desktop applications and services."
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    Hey guys. Just watched a live session online at Cisco w the developers of this system, still in development, but interesting differentiators vs 2Life, e.g. peer-to-peer, nested worlds, oh and its open-source. Thought yaz might be interested in tracking it.
Nigel Robertson

P2PU Badges Pilot - 0 views

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    Peer to peer assessment and accreditation through badges. Very interesting concept and certainly in the Open realm.
Dean Stringer

Master a new skill? Here's your badge - 1 views

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    "The Mozilla Foundation and Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), among others, are working to create an alternative - and recognized - form of certification that combines merit-earned badges with an open framework. The Open Badges Project will allow skills and competencies to be tracked, assessed, and showcased."
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    May not have quite the same clout with the NZQA :) but though you guys might be interested in this...
Nigel Robertson

Using Voice Boards: pedagogical design, technological implementation, evaluation and re... - 0 views

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    "AbstractWe present a case study to evaluate the use of a Wimba Voice Board to support asynchronous audio discussion. We discuss the learning strategy and pedagogic rationale when a Voice Board was implemented within an MA module for language learners, enabling students to create learning objects and facilitating peer-to-peer learning. Previously students studying the module had communicated using text-based synchronous and asynchronous discussion only. A common criticism of text-based media is the lack of non-verbal communication. Audio communication is a richer medium where use of pitch, tone, emphasis and inflection can increase personalisation and prevent misinterpretation."
Nigel Robertson

College Open Textbooks - College Open Textbooks - 0 views

  • Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: easy to use, get and pass around, editable so instructors can customize content, cross-platform compatible, printable, and accessible so they work with adaptive technology.
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    "Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: easy to use, get and pass around, editable so instructors can customize content, cross-platform compatible, printable, and accessible so they work with adaptive technology."
Stephen Harlow

UC Berkeley Regents' Lecture: Howard Rheingold (Presented by Berkeley Center for New Me... - 0 views

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    "Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy."
Nigel Robertson

Build a Peer review system using Google Forms - 0 views

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    A general description rather than code or examples but worth a try.
Derek White

iPeer | Download iPeer software for free at SourceForge.net - 0 views

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    Tool developed by UBC for peer review. Open source - php based
Nigel Robertson

WebPA | WebPA - 0 views

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    "an open source online peer assessment tool that enables every team member to recognise individual contributions to group work."
Nigel Robertson

Court fails Toronto professor's grading on a budget - 0 views

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    A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers' work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Nigel Robertson

Aropä: Peer Review made Easy - Information for instructors - 0 views

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    Peer review tool based in Glasgow Uni.
Stephen Bright

School of Open will launch during Open Education Week | Peer to Peer University - 0 views

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    School of Open will launch its first courses during Open Education week March 11 - 15 2013. Four facilitated courses launched during March 11 week - two may be relevant to NZ (i) Copyright 4 Educators (Aus) and Writing Wikipedia articles: the basics and beyond. 
Nigel Robertson

Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks | Badge | R... - 0 views

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    "Evidence shows that engaged students perform better academically than disinterested students. Measurement of engagement with education is difficult and imprecise, especially in large student cohorts. Traditional measurements such as summary statistics derived from assessment are crude secondary measures of engagement at best and do not provide much support for educators to work with students and curate engagement during teaching periods. We have used academic-related student contributions to a public social network as a proxy for engagement. Statistical summaries and novel data visualisation tools provide subtle and powerful insights into online student peer networks. Analysis of data collected shows that network visualisation can be an important curation tool for educators interested in cultivating student engagement."
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