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This is a summarised version of an interview I held with Dave Hall, Registrar of the University of Leicester, about his views on the OERu concept. He makes some very interesting comments - particularly with regard to research that has been done at Leicester around student retention and success rates. (The clue is in the title to the blog.) This is an important issue for discussion within the open education community: at the heart of our practice is the belief that flexibility will enable larger numbers of students to access higher education, but the evidence shows that that very same flexibility can create insurmountable barriers for students. Hmmm. Via Gabi Witthaus, Robert Farrow 
I began the #ioe12 open assessment module by watching the Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation YouTube video. The video is a snappy introduction to the concept of open badges with endorsement for them from a number of senior educationalists/ academics and CEOs. Via Andreas Link, Robert Farrow 
This document is an introduction to Open Learning. It examines briefly what “Open” means and the different facets of the open movement and what “Learning” means and how it is different for every person. Via Robert Farrow 
Academics have a responsibility to make their work relevant for the society they exist within. The good news is that the tools to counter this deficiency in academic relevance are here for the taking. Now we need the culture of academia to catch up. Via Robert Farrow 
Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education | de Waard | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Via Robert Farrow The EU has pledged by the Open Access in the forthcoming Horizon 2020 Programme.
La UE apuesta por el Conocimiento Abierto en su próximo Programa Horizon 2020.
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The European Union is set to throw the weight of its €80 billion (£64 billion) research funding programme behind open-access publishing, Times Higher Education has learned. An official at the European Commission, which is drafting proposals for the Horizon 2020 programme, said that for researchers receiving funding from its programme between 2014 and 2020, open-access publishing "will be the norm". Via Fran García Peñalvo ICDE announces a call for papers for its online journal Open Praxis. The theme of the relaunch issue, to be published in October 2012, is Openness in higher education, and the deadline for submissions is 9 July. Research articles, shorter innovative practice articles and reviews are invited. Via antonella esposito Video Presentation by Ms. Trudi van Wyk, Education Specialist -eLearning, Commonwealth of Learning for Open Education Week, 5 - 10 March 2012 (Worldwide). Via Andreas Link, Robert Farrow 
Join us in building a living map of the OER world. Help us gather, distill, connect and map what isknown - and what we don't yet know... Via Robert Farrow 
The computer – or, most specifically, the global Internet connected to it – is ultimately disruptive, not just to the classroom learning experience, but to the entire rationale of the classroom, the school, the institution of learning, says Mark Pesce |
Academics have a responsibility to make their work relevant for the society they exist within. Via Robert Farrow Last few days of the survey - I will be eternally grateful to everyone who supports this research :-)
The survey is open to people in higher education institutions everywhere. It aims to find out what the perceptions are about the OER university concept, and also to generate a benchmarking tool for institutions to check their compatibility with the OERu concept. Don't worry if you don't know much about the OERu - the questions are more about open practices at your own institution. (But if you do want some background info, have a look at http://wikieducator.org/OERu) Via Gabi Witthaus, Robert Farrow 
Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, says its publisher Elsevier effectively denies developing world access to research findings... Via Mariusz Leś, Robert Farrow 
This is a guest post by Phil Barker (@philbarker), JISC CETIS (@jisccetis) about the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative in which Creative Commons is involved and Phil is a member of the initiative's Technical Working Group. Via Robert Farrow
Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote with evangelical zeal about the arrival of Massive Online Open Courses, the free courses from top institutions available to students anywhere in the world. Not only would MOOCs be a huge industry in five years, he said, but financially strapped community colleges could use the online lectures while their own professors could work “face-to-face” with students. 
ICDE is pleased to be one of the official supporters of a three-day symposium, Open Educational Resources in Asia: Policies and Practices, which will be held at Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia from 19-21 September, 2012. ICDE members receive a discount on the registration fee.
Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, says its publisher Elsevier effectively denies developing world access to research findings... Via Mariusz Leś, Robert Farrow 
Your education doesn't have to stop once you get out of school—being free of the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. Via Robert Farrow 
Recently I blogged over at http://leedsmetlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/discovering-the-leeds-metropolitan-university-repository/ about integrating the repository with the EBSCO Discovery Serv... |
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