Monthly Archives: January 2011

A TAACCCTful mandate? OER, SCORM and the $2bn grant

By Lorna | January 25, 2011

Last week’s announcement that the US Department of Labour is planning to allocate $2 billion in grant funds to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants programme over the next four years, has already generated a huge response online. $2 billion is a lot of money #inthiscurrentclimate, or indeed in any [...]

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This is not a blog post…#lwf11

By Lorna | January 11, 2011

Earlier today while listening to the livefeed of Learning Without Frontiers #lwf11 I had the misfortune to hear Katharine Birbalsingh presenting. Not since a recent Alt-C keynote have I seen such a vitriolic twitter backchannel. And in my opinion it was justified. Several people in my twitter feed missed the presentation but [...]

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JISC CETIS OER Technical Interest Group

By Lorna | January 6, 2011

In order to provide a focus for the wide range of technical activities that the UK F/HE community is engaging with in the general space of “open educational resources” CETIS are establishing an OER Technical Interest Group. This group will provide a forum to explore a wide range of technical issues relating to [...]

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