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Research in distance education conference 2011
Today I’m at Senate House for the Centre for Distance Education conference. I’ll be running a workshop on OERs based on experiences of the DELILA project with colleagues from Kings and UoL. We are...
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Open all hours
Today I spoke at the 25th Heron User Group meeting with June Hedges (UCL) and Donya Rowan (university of Derby) about our experiences of working on an OER project. We focused on the copyright issues...
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2011....
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Information Literacy OERs – tell us what you know
The CILIP CSG-Information Literacy group are delighted to be partnering with UNESCO to collaborate on a new project to highlight information literacy open educational resources in the UK. Two former...
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DELILA at UNESCO
Nancy and I have just returned from a few days in Paris, at the World Congress on Open Educational Resources at UNESCO. The meeting brought together “global governments, educators, NGOs and prominent...
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DELILA in Moscow
After our exciting trip to Paris (see below), I travelled to Moscow to present a very similar paper at the International Conference on Media and Information Literacy in Knowledge Societies, organised...
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Building a community of practice
Yesterday we held a workshop at University of Birmingham to get together interested librarians to talk about how we build a community or network to share open educational resources on information...
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Survey report now available
The CILIP CSG-Information Literacy group are delighted to be partnering with UNESCO to collaborate on a new project to share information literacy open educational resources in the UK. Jane Secker (LSE)...
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Project Co-Pilot gets funding
The University of Birmingham and London School of Economics and Political Science will be working with the Information Literacy Section of UNESCO on a short project funded by JISC and the Higher...
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Happy 10th birthday to Creative Commons!
As some of you will know on the 16th December Creative Commons will be 10 years old! This initiative has altered the landscape for IPR and copyright and has opened up the discussion about sharing...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,200 views in 2012. If...
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CoPILOT Project case study now complete
Nancy and I were asked to produce a case study as part of the JISC / HEA funded project CoPILOT, which we worked on from October – December 2012. The project looked at whether we could build an...
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CoPILOT workshops
Nancy and I gave two workshops before Easter at the LILAC conference at the University of Manchester and at the OER conference at the University of Nottingham. Nick Sheppard wrote up our session at...
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Finding, sharing and creating OERs for information literacy – a free workshop
The CoPILOT committee have organised their first event on the 30th May which will be at the university of Surrey. It’s a free workshop on finding, creating and using open educational resources for...
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CO-PILOT strategy for sharing IL resources as OERs
As part of the CO-PILOT project Nancy and I have written a strategy for sharing information literacy resources as OERs internationally. This document is now available online and is licensed under a...
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Taking off with CoPILOT: our first workshop at the University of Surrey
The first (of many, we hope) CoPILOT workshop took place on the 30th May at the University of Surrey. This was the first event aimed at the community of practice we’ve set up in the UK to encourage...
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Jorum’s Information Literacy collection needs your help!
Recently Jorum created a new and customised Research Data Management (RDM) collection within their collection, which was announced last week. The Jorum team has realised the existing collections were...
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Survey on use of open educational resources
(sent on behalf of Dr Beck Pitt, OER Research Hub, Open University, UK) As a librarian and/or someone with an interest in the Co-PILOT project and open educational resources, I am writing to invite you...
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Research into OERs and librarians – we need your help
As a librarian and/or someone with an interest in open educational resources, I am inviting you to participate in our research, which is investigating how people think about and use different types of...
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Finding, sharing and creating OERs for information literacy – a free workshop
The CoPILOT committee have organised their first event on the 30th May which will be at the university of Surrey. It’s a free workshop on finding, creating and using open educational resources for...
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