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OER13 Lightning Talks

By Lorna | March 28, 2013

Writing in Booksprints
Presenter and authors: Phil Barker, Lorna M. Campbell, Martin Hawksey, CETIS and Amber Thomas, University of Warwick.
Session: LT50, #abs50
A booksprint is a facilitated, highly structured intensive writing process.  This booksprint ran for two and a half days, involved four people and was facilitated by Adam Hyde.  The aim of the sprint was to produce [...]

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CETIS at OER13

By Lorna | March 21, 2013

I was really encouraged to hear from our CETIS13 keynote speaker Patrick McAndrew that next week’s OER13 conference in Nottingham is shaping up to be the biggest yet. In our Open Practice and OER Sustainability session Patrick mentioned that the organising committee had expected numbers to be down from last year as the 2012 conference [...]

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OER Technology Into the Wild - Call for Comments

By Lorna | October 5, 2012

The OER technology directions book that Amber, Phil, Martin and I drafted during a book sprint at the end of August is now almost complete. We even have a title!
Technology for Open Educational Resources - Into The Wild. Reflections on three years of the UK OER Programmes
We’ve spent the last few [...]

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OER Booksprint Reflections

By Lorna | August 31, 2012

Earlier this week Amber Thomas, Phil Barker, Martin Hawksey and I had the interesting and rewarding experience of participating in an OER booksprint. A booksprint is essentially an accelerated facilitated writing retreat, and in this case our facilitator was the endlessly patient and encouraging Adam Hyde of booksprints.net and Sourcefabric’s Booktype team. Adam [...]

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