(A contribution to Open Education Week — see note at end.) What is the need? Imagine what could happen if we had a really good sets of usable open learning outcomes, across academic subjects, occupations and professions. It would be easy to express and then trace the relationships between any learning outcomes. To start with, […]
The Scottish Open Education Declaration
The third annual Open Education Week takes place from 10-15 March 2014. The purpose of Open Education Week is “to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide“. Cetis staff are supporting Open Education Week by publishing a series of blog posts about open education activities. The Cetis blog will provide access to the posts […]
Open Education and Wikipedia: Developments in the UK
The third annual Open Education Week (#openeducationwk) takes place from 10-15 March 2014. As described on the Open Education Week web site “its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide“. Cetis staff are supporting Open Education Week by publishing a series of blog posts about open education activities. […]
Jisc DigiFest and “What I Know Is”
It’s been a little quiet on this blog recently, I haven’t been sitting around twiddling my thumbs though, far from it! I’ve been busy on the Open Scotland front and with another exciting project that Phil Barker and I will be announcing very shortly. I also seem to have got myself roped into an awful […]
Explaining the LRMI Alignment Object
The educational alignment property and the associated alignment object that LRMI introduced into schema.org have been described as the “killer feature” for LRMI. However, I know from the number of questions asked about the alignment object and from examples I have seen of it being used wrongly that it is not the easiest construct to understand. […]
Preparing our Users for Digital Life Beyond the Institution
About This Post This blog post provides some background information on digital literacy and argues that digital literacy needs to go beyond student teaching and ensure that staff and researchers, who may wish to continue their professional activities when they leave their current institution, are able to migrate content and services to the Cloud, so […]
Interoperability Incubation and Pre-standardisation Activity – A View on Desirable Qualities
There is an important process that should feed into the development of good standards (that are used in practice) and this process is currently in need of repair and reformation. They key idea behind this is that good standards to support educational technology, to take our area of particular interest, are not created on a […]
What I Know Is
A Research Symposium on Online Collaborative Knowledge Building The University of Stirling will host a one day research symposium on online collaborative knowledge building tomorrow, Wednesday 19th February. Further details are available here: What I Know Is Dogma concerning the use of the Wikipedia has, for many of us working in Higher Education, tended to dictate a […]
Cabinet Office Consults on Open Standards for Government – URI Patterns and Document Formats
Feedback is invited on three proposals by Feb 24th (and 26th). The proposals relate to the following challenges (which apply to UK government use, not the whole of the public sector or the devolved governments): URI patterns for identifiers. These will be for resolvable URIs to identify things and codes within data published by government. […]
College Development Network Librarians Open Developments in Scotland
Earlier this week I travelled up to the Stirling where I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the College Development Network Librarians Open Developments in Scotland event. It was an interesting and lively event and it’s great to see college librarians really engaging with the open education debate. Open education has the potential to be […]