JISC and MIT: comparing notes on ed tech

December 11, 2009

A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to join a conversation between JISC and MIT OEIT (http://oeit.mit.edu/) to exchange information about current initiatives and possible collaborations. The general themes of the conversation were openness and sustainability. There was an agreed sense that, currently, “Open is the new educational tech” (Vijay). The areas of strategic [...]

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Notes from the web: Proposed NSF Repository, and Open Textbook act

October 7, 2009

Just a few quick points of interest from the web about developments in the US which are worth noting:
A new subject repository and OA mandate?
“In addition to the $20 million grant announced today, the Libraries received a $300,000 grant from NSF to study the feasibility of developing, operating and sustaining an open access repository of [...]

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Recent JISC project outputs at Open Repositories 2009

May 15, 2009

RRT are attending Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta.
Our poster highlights nine recent ready-to-use outputs from JISC’s repositories and preservation work that the conference might not otherwise have heard about.

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Journals and the right choice of words

October 7, 2008

Erik Duval has just blogged about the first issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
His blog post is available at http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/ieee-transactions-on-learning-technologies/
I’m glad to see the launch of a new journal in the field of learning technology and very glad to see that the content is going to be Open Access after a 12 month embargo [...]

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