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The great UKOER tag debate

By Lorna | November 14, 2012

After three years of innovation focused on the sustainable release of open educational resources, the JISC HEA UK OER Programme is drawing to a close and yesterday Martin and I went along to the final programme meeting in London. Phil wasn’t able to attend the meeting and instead posted the following e-mail to the [...]

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OER Bookmarking Mini Project Update

By Lorna | August 30, 2011

Following on from last week’s CaPRéT OER Technical Mini Project update we now have a progress report from Paul Horner of the University of Newcastle’s OER Bookmarking mini project. The project, which builds on the Dynamic Learning Maps initiative aims to:
1. To develop a non-proprietary social bookmaking service to enhance resource discovery across the community. [...]

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CaPRéT: Getting to the Alpha Release

By Lorna | August 19, 2011

Earlier this week Phil Barker wrote a blog post about the intriguing cut and paste attribution tool developed by the CaPRéT OER Technical Mini Project. CaPRéT has been developed by Brandon Muramatsu of MIT and Justin Ball and Joel Duffin of Tatemae. Brandon has now written a blog explaining how the team scoped and [...]

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JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini-Projects Results

By Lorna | May 9, 2011

After a slight delay caused by all those public holidays and an unscheduled absence on my part, it gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini-Projects Call. Having taken into consideration the comments and discussions on the oer-discuss JISCmail list, a pannel of JISC and CETIS staff [...]

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JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini-Projects Proposals and Discussion

By Lorna | April 14, 2011

The bids are in for the JISC CETIS OER Technical Mini Projects and there’s a lively discussion going on over at oer-discuss@jiscmail.com
We’ve taken a new approach to the Technical Mini Projects call that builds on rapid innovation funding models already employed by the JISC. Interested parties were asked to submit short 1500 words proposals [...]

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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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