Project lead – Ben Ryan, Jorum Technical Coordinator. “Jorum is a Jisc funded Service for UK Further and Higher Education, to collect and share open educational resources, allowing their reuse and repurposing. Jorum’s free online repository service forms a key part of Jisc’s Learning and Teaching digital content offering. It is the first port of […]
LRMI Implementation Case Study: Open Tapestry
Project team: Justin Ball, CTO; Joel Duffin, CEO “Open Tapestry is all about discovering, adapting, and sharing learning resources, whether you’re a teacher, an instructor, a professor, a corporate trainer, a learner, or just a curious mind! We help you organize your content into categories–or Tapestries–that you create. Open Tapestry’s toolset allows instructors to develop […]
LRMI Implementation Projects Case Studies
As part of our work for Creative Commons on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), my colleague Phil Barker and I have been writing short case studies on a number of LRMI implementation projects that were funded between 2013 – 2014. Ten different OER platforms received small grants from the Gates and Hewlett Foundations to implement […]
You are free to adapt the What is Schema.org briefing
Editable files for the What is Schema.org briefing are now available from the Cetis Publications site. The process of enabling editable copies of this publication has leads me to some reflections on the publishing workflow behind it. We published What is Schema.org? a Cetis briefing paper for LRMI in June, as with most of Cetis’s […]
The death of Free2Play is a good thing beyond the games industry
Way back in February the EU commission raised concerns over business models in the mobile phone ‘app industry’. There were 4 major points of concern, these are taken directly from the EC press release : • Games advertised as “free”…
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Reusing Open Resources: Learning in Open Networks for Work, Life and Education
Back in 2003 I contributed a chapter to Allison LIttlejohn’s book Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning and I’m delighted to say that, together with co-authors Sheila MacNeill and Martin Hawksey, I have another paper in the subsequent book in this series Reusing Open Resources: Learning in Open Networks for Work, Life and Education edited by Allison Littlejohn […]
UK Government Crosses the Rubicon with Open Document Formats
Last week (July 22nd 2014), the UK Government announced the open document formats to be used by government: PDF/A, HTML, and ODF. This is the second tranche of open standards that have been adopted following open consultation, detailed work by technical panels, and recommendation by the Open Standards Board. The first tranche, which I wrote […]
UK Government Mandates Open Document Format! A Brave or Foolhardy Decision?
UK Government Policy Announcement on Office Standards Back in October 2012 in a post entitled Good News From the UK Government: Launch of the Open Standards Principles which described how the UK government had published a series of document which outlined the government’s plans for use of open standards across government departments. Last week the government made […]
Reflections on #IWMW14
IWMW 2.014: Rebooting the Web IWMW 2014, the 18th annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, took place last week, from 16-20 July, at Northumbria University. The theme of this year’s event was “rebooting the web“: an idea which came from a participant at last year’s event who felt that, although he felt there was a continued […]
E-portfolios and badges for the common good
I learned several things at the e-portfolio and identity conference (ePIC) 2014 that I attended 9th and 10th July. 1. People agree it’s political The response to my presentation (What will we need to learn and have evidence for? on Slideshare) reassured me that many of the excellent people at the conference shared something like […]