Monthly Archives: November 2009

An interesting tracking case study…

Earlier this afternoon my colleague Phil Barker led a fascinating Elluminate session exploring resource tracking issues for the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resources Programme. One approach to tracking Phil raised was the use of unique keys or tag combinations which are embedded in resources and then released into the wild. Googling for the [...]

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Semantic technologies: which way now?

Cast your mind back to the CETIS Conference 2007 and you may remember a session on Semantic Technologies for Teaching and Learning. This session sought to introduce current developments in semantic technologies, explore their potential application to the domain of teaching and learning and facilitate discussion between these two apparently disparate communities. [...]

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Wha’s like us?

Damn few and they’re aw deid!
Famous deid people namechecked at #cetis09

Charles Darwin

Clarence Darrow

Marshall McLuhan (second year running!)

Les Dawson

Aldous Huxley

William Shakespeare

Joseph Schumpeter

Stieg Larsson

Famous deid programmes….
The MAC Initiative

And a couple of deid bands…

The Clash

Lindisfarne (thanks Oleg!)

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CETIS Conference: OER Technical Roundtable

Only four days to go until the CETIS Conference and we’re already starting to draw up a list of issues to explore at the OER Technical Roundtable. The aim of this session is to give OER Projects techies and other interested folk an opportunity to come together to discuss technical issues that [...]

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