Comments for Lorna's JISC CETIS blog http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc Sat, 25 May 2013 12:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Adam Warren http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114996 Adam Warren Tue, 14 May 2013 11:15:03 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114996 Hi Lorna, HumBox is a good example of how the technology supports the development of a fairly homogenous community that values sharing. That is very different from simply putting your resources online with a CC licence and having no feedback or acknowledgement about their use. All of the successful sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr, ccMixter etc etc) include comments and community. We have an institutional respository (EdShare) which is well used, but there are some concerns about sharing resources that are either "good enough for students but not a worldwide audience" or "contain resources that may infringe copyright, but are OK for use in class". Plenty of contradictions to unpack there... Hi Lorna, HumBox is a good example of how the technology supports the development of a fairly homogenous community that values sharing. That is very different from simply putting your resources online with a CC licence and having no feedback or acknowledgement about their use. All of the successful sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr, ccMixter etc etc) include comments and community. We have an institutional respository (EdShare) which is well used, but there are some concerns about sharing resources that are either “good enough for students but not a worldwide audience” or “contain resources that may infringe copyright, but are OK for use in class”. Plenty of contradictions to unpack there…

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Lorna http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114982 Lorna Tue, 14 May 2013 10:33:19 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114982 Hi Imogen, thanks for your comment. OcTEL is indeed a very good example of a MOOC that puts its money where its mouth is in terms of openness! Hi Imogen, thanks for your comment. OcTEL is indeed a very good example of a MOOC that puts its money where its mouth is in terms of openness!

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Lorna http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114980 Lorna Tue, 14 May 2013 10:31:07 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114980 Hi Adam, many thanks for your comment. It's really helpful to hear from someone who is actually involved in the FutureLearn development. It's interesting to hear that the academics that you're working with are resistant to the use of CC licences and concerned about their educational content being reused in other contexts, particularly given that Southampton has been active in promoting the development of open educational resources through initiatives such as HumBox. Any thoughts on why this should be? Hi Adam, many thanks for your comment. It’s really helpful to hear from someone who is actually involved in the FutureLearn development. It’s interesting to hear that the academics that you’re working with are resistant to the use of CC licences and concerned about their educational content being reused in other contexts, particularly given that Southampton has been active in promoting the development of open educational resources through initiatives such as HumBox. Any thoughts on why this should be?

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Lorna http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114971 Lorna Tue, 14 May 2013 09:54:48 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114971 Pat, sadly I think you may well be right. Pat, sadly I think you may well be right.

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Muvaffak GOZAYDIN http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114797 Muvaffak GOZAYDIN Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:41 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114797 Sorry . I cannot value the author of OER. I do not know who is the author. But in MOOCs I know the university is a reputable university and I trust .So I never watch OER . Sorry . I cannot value the author of OER. I do not know who is the author.
But in MOOCs I know the university is a reputable university and I trust .So I never watch OER .

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by pat http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114721 pat Mon, 13 May 2013 13:40:52 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114721 Think the problem here is that open is load of old crock now - so many people have given it different meanings that as a standard to judge against it is empty. Might as well judge them on smell. Think the problem here is that open is load of old crock now - so many people have given it different meanings that as a standard to judge against it is empty.

Might as well judge them on smell.

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Adam Warren http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-114666 Adam Warren Mon, 13 May 2013 10:11:59 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-114666 I'm heavily involved in the development of FutureLearn MOOCs at the University of Southampton, and so have some knowledge of plans for the FutureLearn platform. I understand that the aim is for all the content to be discoverable through search engines such as Google, and openly accessible without logging in. Access to activities and discussions will obviously still be restricted to those actually signed up for the courses. That is not to say that those content items will be open as in 'open for use in other contexts' or 'open for editing and re-use' and most of the academics creating the content don't want to use CC licences. There is some concern that if CC licences were adopted other institutions or companies would just use our content to run their own versions of our expensively-created MOOCs. I’m heavily involved in the development of FutureLearn MOOCs at the University of Southampton, and so have some knowledge of plans for the FutureLearn platform. I understand that the aim is for all the content to be discoverable through search engines such as Google, and openly accessible without logging in. Access to activities and discussions will obviously still be restricted to those actually signed up for the courses. That is not to say that those content items will be open as in ‘open for use in other contexts’ or ‘open for editing and re-use’ and most of the academics creating the content don’t want to use CC licences. There is some concern that if CC licences were adopted other institutions or companies would just use our content to run their own versions of our expensively-created MOOCs.

]]> Comment on The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER by Imogen Bertin http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/10/the-thorny-issue-of-moocs-and-oer/comment-page-1/#comment-113965 Imogen Bertin Fri, 10 May 2013 08:54:17 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=844#comment-113965 Very good highlighting of this issue, Lorna! OERs and technology-enhanced learning is the topic covered last week in the ALT MOOC #OcTEL last week at octel.alt.ac.uk - I partiularly like that OcTEL uses Wordpress as its platform and pretty much all the resources are available without a login. I have registered, but I had a period of a week when I lost my login through my own fault, yet I was able to keep up. There are practical as well as ethical and educational reasons why openness is a good thing... Very good highlighting of this issue, Lorna!

OERs and technology-enhanced learning is the topic covered last week in the ALT MOOC #OcTEL last week at octel.alt.ac.uk - I partiularly like that OcTEL uses Wordpress as its platform and pretty much all the resources are available without a login. I have registered, but I had a period of a week when I lost my login through my own fault, yet I was able to keep up. There are practical as well as ethical and educational reasons why openness is a good thing…

]]> Comment on Open Scotland by Lorna http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/05/03/open-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-113387 Lorna Wed, 08 May 2013 12:58:55 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=813#comment-113387 Hi Natalie, Apologies for the delay in replying... I'll be happy to send you an invitation to this event. Cheers Lorna Hi Natalie,

Apologies for the delay in replying… I’ll be happy to send you an invitation to this event.

Cheers
Lorna

]]> Comment on Further and Higher Education ICT Strategy - summary and reflections by Lorna http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2013/04/23/sfc-further-and-higher-education-ict-strategy-summary-and-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-113383 Lorna Wed, 08 May 2013 12:55:09 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/?p=791#comment-113383 Hi David, Thanks for the link to the HEFCE "Collaborate to Compete" paper. I remember reading that when it was published but it's a while since I've looked at it. Seems like now would be a good time to revisit it! Does the OTLF report also still inform SFC's strategy or is this outwith SFC's remit? Thanks again Hi David,

Thanks for the link to the HEFCE “Collaborate to Compete” paper. I remember reading that when it was published but it’s a while since I’ve looked at it. Seems like now would be a good time to revisit it! Does the OTLF report also still inform SFC’s strategy or is this outwith SFC’s remit?

Thanks again

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