WebPA is an open source online peer assessment tool that enables every team member to recognise individual contributions to group work.
A well known criticism of assessed group work is that each student receives the same team mark, regardless of individual performance. 
Developing PGCE students' research as OER to improve reflective enquiry and pedagogic practice 
David Wiley, nationally recognized scholar, teacher, and expert on open education, will speak in Knight Library’s Browsing Room at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. The lecture is presented as part of the Philip H. The First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education massive open online course (mooc) will run from 21 May to 22 June 2012. This mooc is developed by the HEA/JISC funded OpenLine Project at Oxford Brookes University. Registration is open. 
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, Tim Seal 
Open content licensing for educators is a free online workshop designed for educators and students who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses.
Here is a brief overview of how I created the Android application with the HEAT content. It is very much a demo/prototype application, so I’m sure there are many other ways this could be done (maybe in a more generic approach). 
After a whirlwind nine months that has witnessed a rapid rebirth of online education at elite U.S. universities in the form of massively open online courses, or MOOCs, Harvard University threw its hat into the ring Wednesday -- along with the largest investment yet in technology aimed at bringing interactive online education to hundreds of thousands of students at a time, free. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/02/harvard-joins-mit-platform-offer-massive-online-courses#ixzz1tnjambPk Via Martin Weller Public sector saves £28 million through open access, but much greater rewards to come, says report 
The concept of sharing educational resources freely around the world, referred to as "open education" or "open courseware", is now gaining mainstream acceptance both inside and outside of the academy and has been adopted by over 200 higher education institutions worldwide. 
The educational social network. Providing access to practical learning opportunities and a network to offer your teaching services 
The digital revolution has begun and successful institutions will be those that use the opportunity to collaborate, grow and widen their influence, says Anka Mulder...
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A one day forum discussing the use of OERs in Art, Design and Media in HE. Organised by the HEA ADM and held at the University of Brighton 16/5/12. Benchmarking OER Use and Assessment in Higher Education. 
Will Pearce is Head of puppets and masks for Disney's Lion King production at the Lyceum theatre in Covent Garden, London. 
The Faculties are a new, free educational resource for secondary schools and especially those A-level students thinking about applying to University.
Since it started last fall, I’ve heard the 36-week experimental #change11course referred to – half tongue-in-cheek – as “the Mother of All MOOCs.”
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university-venus/problem-edx#ixzz1tuAQsFHA Via Martin Weller, Tim Seal Photos from Cambridge12 (OCWC Global 2012)... 
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. 
OpenEducation is a special interest group of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/oesig My collection of Cambridge 2012 thoughts & inspirations. The combined OER12 and the OCW Consortium’s Global Conference.
How to print an Autonomous University in Peckham – or somewhere like it
This is our first talk in a series about creating an Autonomous University. It’s an open discussion kicked of by a round table presentation of projects, that together we believe can be parts of a whole. After feeling the financial pinch of rising college textbook costs, Adrian Ridner and Ben Wilson, two classmates at Cal Poly State University---San Luis Obispo, knew there had to be a way to relieve the financial burden being placed on themselves and their fellow students. In 2002, they found the way. |
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