On Monday I gave a presentation on Open Scotland and the Scottish Open Education Declaration at a Scottish Higher Education Developers event hosted by the inestimable Jisc RSC Scotland. Vicki Dale was kind enough to tweet my presentation and Sheila MacNeill drew one of her fabulous visual notes, so I’ve collated them into a little Storify here […]
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative Webinar
Later this week my colleague Phil Barker and I will be giving a webinar on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) as part of the ASIS&T DCMI webinar series. The webinar takes place on Wednesday 19th at 15.00 UTC and you can register here. Registration costs $25 and a recording of the webinar will be made […]
NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries: Emphasis on Mobile (Anytme, Anyplace, Anywhere)
The NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries Yesterday I took part in the NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries. I was invited to be a panel member following my participation in the group which took part in the development of the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition. The half-day symposium provided an opportunity for “library professionals, […]
From the Modernisation of Higher Education Report to the Open Learning Analytics Network Summit
More Personalised Learning Informed by Better Data In a recent post on a Report on Modernisation of Higher Education I described how the High Level Group’s report on the Modernisation of Higher Education which covers New modes of learning and teaching in higher education gave a high profile to the importance of learning analytics. The report includes a […]
EduWiki Conference 2014
Last Friday I went along to the EduWiki Conference in the distractingly beautiful St Leonard’s Hall at the University of Edinburgh. I have to confess to being a bit of a Wikimedia fangirl; I’m not a Wikimedian myself, but I’m a huge fan of Wikimedia’s work in the education domain and I believe Wikimedia has […]
Report on Modernisation of Higher Education: Focus on Open Access and Learning Analytics
New Modes of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Via a post on the Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) LinkedIn group which described how a “Report on Modernisation of Higher Education specifically refers to LA [learning analytics]” I came across the High Level Group’s report on the Modernisation of Higher Education which covers New modes of […]
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Forthcoming Talks on Wikipedia in Edinburgh
Yesterday was the first anniversary since I started work at Cetis. During that period I have been involved in two main areas of work: supporting the outreach and engagement aspects of the LACE (Learning Analytics Community Exchange) project and promoting use of open educational practices and in particular, use of Wikipedia. Later today I will […]
MOOCs and technology-enhanced learning: next steps and challenges
Last week, I gave a presentation at the Westminster Higher Education Forum Keynote Seminar, where I discussed the opportunities MOOCs provide for UK universities to develop their brand internationally and to expand their international market through online learning. I would like to share some of my slides and transcripts below: This diagram shows how MOOCs […]
On LRMI moving to Dublin Core
At last, it is official: “effective October 23, 2014, leadership and governance of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) […] have transferred from the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).” This represents the end of LRMI as a project, and the start of it as a member of […]