Here, somewhat belatedly, is a summary of the discussions that followed the presentations at the Open Educational Resources session at CETIS 08.
Much of the discussion focused on technical issues such as infrastructure, the role of standards (or not), granularity of resources, metadata and tagging.
There appeared to be considerable support for the idea [...]
Famous deceased name checked at cetis08.
Plato
Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger
Jean Francois Lyotard
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Josef Stalin
Peter Kropotkin
Marshall Mcluhan
Cozy Powell
The Open Educational Resources session at CETIS08 was a little different from the other conference session in that it aimed to provided participants with some background to the forthcoming JISC / HEFCE OER programme while at the same time giving them an opportunity to comment and provide input. Further information on this call is available [...]
Without a doubt the zenith of the recent CETIS08 conference has to be the evolution of a new concept in educational technology - eduprog.
(copyright: it’s Phil’s fault)
Eduprog crystalised from the domains of metadata, repositories, educational technology and unusual puddings and is set to challenge edupunk as the real underground movement of the moment. [...]
So that’s it, #cetis08 is all over bar the blogging and the occasional tweet. I’ll be attempting to synthesise the discussions from the OER session over the next few days but in the meantime here are my highs and lows of the last couple of days:
High Points
Adam’s “impressively geeky” summary of CETIS activity [...]
My colleague Li Yuan has now uploaded the outline for the OER Programme Scoping Session at this months CETIS Conference which takes place in Birmingham on the 25th & 26th November. This is your chance to comment on and provide input to the forthcoming £5.7 million JISC open educational content programme. [...]
