UKOER 3 Technical Reflections
The Technical Requirements for the JISC / HEA OER 3 Programme remain unchanged from those established for UKOER 2. These requirements can be referred to here: OER 2 Technical Requirements. However,...
View ArticleCETIS OER Visualisation Project
As part of our work in the areas of open educational resources and data analysis CETIS are undertaking a new project to visualise the outputs of the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resource Programmes and...
View ArticleJLeRN Hackday – Issues Identified
Last week I went to the hackday organised by the JLeRN team and CETIS to kick off Mimas’ JLeRN Experiment. It you haven’t come across JLeRN before, it’s a JISC funded exploratory project to build an...
View ArticleCome to Dev8D and tell JISC what you think!
Are you going to Dev8D next week? Would you like to give JISC a piece of your mind? On Wednesday 15th there will be an opportunity to tell JISC what you think the key opportunities and challenges are...
View Article#cam12 Keynotes, backchannels and undercurrents
A few thoughts from the OER 12 conference held in Cambridge last week. Sadly I wasn’t able to stay for the whole conference but the first two days left me with plenty of food for thought. This year the...
View ArticleNPG adopts Creative Commons licence
Last month the National Portrait Gallery changed their image licencing policy to allow free downloads for non-commercial and academic purposes. Writing in Museums Journal today Rebecca Atkinson...
View ArticleBack to the Future – revisiting the CETIS codebashes
As a result of a request from the Cabinet Office to contribute to a paper on the use of hackdays during the procurement process, CETIS have been revisiting the “Codebash” events that we ran between...
View Article#chatopen Open Access and Open Education
Do open access and open education need to work together more? That was the question posed by Pat Lockley and discussed on twitter on Friday evening by a group of open education folks using the hashtag...
View ArticleTaking up the challenge…
Yesterday, David Kernohan challenged the ukoer community on the oer-discuss mailing list to write a blog post in response to a spectacularly wrongheaded Educasue post titled; Ten Years Later: Why Open...
View ArticleInnovation, sustainability and community – reflections on #cetis13
The theme of this years CETIS conference was Open for Education: Technology Innovation in Universities and Colleges, as usual we had a wide and diverse range of sessions but if there was one theme that...
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