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My last CETIS post and snippets of unfinished blog posts.

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The Learning Registry: Rough Guide for Contributors

Update:  For clarity, this is a piece of documentation for a specific group rather than a “regular” blog post. It may be of wider interest but it makes a number of contextual assumptions…
This document assumes that you have some familiarity with intent of the Learning Registry (LR) http://www.learningregistry.org/ and that you are interested in contributing [...]

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Returning to Libraries and OER

“The responsibility of acquiring books was the libraries and you might therefore think of extending the libraries role to…educational resources in general” (Nikoi, 2010). An introduction to our visiting scholar Gema Bueno de la Fuente and a survey about academic libraries role in OER initiatives.

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UKOER 2: without the collections strand

An intial look at UKOER without the collections strand (C). This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
In my earlier post in this series on the collections strand (C), I presented a graph of the technical choices made just by that part of [...]

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Open to opportunities?

Working with CETIS is arguably among the most interesting jobs in ed tech. In the past 5 years I’ve worked with great people and interesting projects, I’ve constantly been exposed to stimuli which challenge, stretch, and (mostly) expand my knowledge and abilities. In the Repositories Research team, and more recently in CETIS support for the [...]

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Post UKOER? the Saylor open textbook challenge

Are you wondering what to do with your OER next? Are you wondering how to keep the ball rolling in your institution and share some more educational resources openly? Are you looking for a tangible way to get your open content used? or perhaps looking for a way to turn your OER into something a little more [...]

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UKOER 2: Analytics and tools to manipulate OER

How are projects tracking the use of their OER? What tools are projects using to work with their OER collections? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Analytics
As part of their thinking around sustainability, it was suggested to projects that they consider how [...]

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UKOER 2: OER creation tools used

When projects in UKOER 2 created or edited content what tools did they use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Tools to make OER

Notes

Ms Office and Adobe Acrobat are not represented in these graphs or in PROD - their use [...]

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