Video and audio podcasts offer exciting opportunities to support teaching, learning and for public engagement with research. The Open University has a forty year history of engagement through media, and now offers full-day workshops for academics who want to give confident and professional presentations and interviews. 
It is expected that during this First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education massive open online course (Mooc) all the participants will .. Filter, select and gather (aggregate) the i... Via Ellen Kuipers I am preparing for a project in which I will need to make video open educational resources (OERs). I will be creating split-screen video clips of lectures showing the presenter on one side, and wha... 
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Via Tim Seal 
An overview of www.edmediashare.org - JISC Digital Media's new initiative to make finding useful online video for education easier. The site encourages educators and learners to share the online video they find useful to support their teaching,... Via @edmediashare 
Academics, some from the University of Lincoln, concerned about rising tuition fees set up a university where students can learn for free. Via Martin Weller 
In theory, Open Educational Resources and wikis go hand in hand. In our ranks, we have some of the most dedicated and accomplished users and advocates the collaborative online tools. So why is it that the OER article on Wikipedia carries the site’s second-lowest quality rating? It’s not just one article — the Open Access article shows room for improvement; the Open Educational Practices article doesn’t exist; and numerous related articles could be improved as well.
With all the wiki enthusiasts in our midst, this is a problem we are well equipped to correct. We can learn more about wiki collaboration, lift the tide of the OER movement, and improve the public’s understanding of our individual projects — all at the same time. A series of workshops (some colocated at conferences, but mostly online) in the coming year will provide a platform to do just that. Via OLnet Team 
How To Convert Video For Process Arts or Vimeo Domains using MPEG Streamclip Open Source Software?
Via Ellen Kuipers 
Zeeik has created a new way to reuse online videos to make and share video-only-consisted information, video Wikipedia; after disassembling videos by scenes or targeted parts, users can reassemble them to create a meaningful video group, a zeeik.
On Zeeik.com, collected YouTube videos are packed and maintained in a video collection called a “zeeik.”
Users are encouraged to collaborate on zeeiks and can partake in any or all of the following steps: request a zeeik, contribute and review videos in the zeeik, or edit and publish the zeeik. Users can also share their zeeiks with friends, making Zeeik.com a social website.
Presently, only YouTube videos are available to include in a zeeik, but that won’t always be the case.
Read more here: Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
Drawing on All Resources: developing open educational practice in art, design and media 16 May 2012 Via Joanna Wild 
This is one for all those interested in the use of CC licences by archives, broadcasters or news organisations.
CC Australia has just announced that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia’s largest public broadcaster and news service, has used Wikimedia Commons to release a selection of historically significant television news stories under CC BY-SA. Via OLnet Team |
This blog post contains the transcript of my interview with Vasi Doncheva, Flexible learning manager at NorthTec Polytechnic in New Zealand, about her institution’s implementation plans for the OER university.
The theme running through Vasi's comments was the commitment that NorthTec has to social inclusion and community service within the local and regional populations they serve. Via Gabi Witthaus 
Learnadoodledastic: Making a case for creating Open Educational Resources for use in Higher Education | @scoopit http://t.co/VDJerRh2... Via Terese Bird 
The Open University on iTunes U. Play audio or video of course lectures and OU podcasts on your iPad, iPod, iPhone, MP3 player, Mac or PC. 
By Justin Marquis What is the Semantic Web What’s the next big thing? The Semantic Web is, according to some tech insiders (including Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet), the next big thing on the Internet ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
Elpida left the OLnet project at the end of February 2012. This is a summary of her research work.
"At OLnet, we are involved in many different types of fascinating research partnering with organisations, institutions and individuals worldwide in order to achieve a better understanding of what it means to learn, teach and research in an open world. "My OLnet Research E-book" will focus on introducing different sections of my personal research together with evidence, links to relevant information and useful tips depending on the topic." Via OLnet Team 
Robin Good: For Windows PC users ActivePresenter may prove to be an interesting alternative, with lots of useful features at a price that can't be beaten.
And when you want more options, like extra export formats, or the ability to produce PowerPoint presentation as final output, the Standard and Pro editions come to the rescue.
With ActivePresenter, not only you can record your computer screen along with your own audio narration, but you can also capture screenshots automatically with mouse clicks or key presses and automatically generate appropriate annotations for each action.
Even the free version has no watermarks or time limitations.
Other features include: - Attractive callouts - Annotations for explaining each action - Make it interactive by adding application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes
Three editions available: - Free Edition: Can create video (AVI, MP4, WMV, WebM)
Demo recordings: http://atomisystems.com/demo/ ;
Compare different editions: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/features-comparison/ ;
More info: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/free-edition/ ; Via Robin Good, michel verstrepen
Sundays pre-conference workshop at Cambridge 2012, which I co-facilitated with Judith Murray (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) Sandra Wills (University of Wollongong, Australia, replac...
Via Gabi Witthaus 
"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences." Via Phil Barker 
Please join us May 1st, 1:00 pm EST for the CCCOER Webinar “Finding and Selecting High Quality Open Educational Resources”. Hear from a community college librarian, the director of a stat... Via Andreas Link, Ebba Ossiannilsson 
MEDEV - Working with our host the school of Medical Sciences Education Development to promote engagement and enhance the student learning experience... |
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