Wikipedia and Information Literacy The current issue of CILIP Update (access restricted to CILIP members and subscribers) features a two-page article entitled “Wikipedia and Information Literacy“. The article, which was written by myself, Nancy Graham and Andrew Gray is based on the Wikipedia workshop sessions and talks which we gave at the LILAC 2014 conference […]
The City and The City: Reflections on the Cetis 2014 Conference
The City and The City The City and the City is a novel by China Miéville. As described in Wikipedia the novel “takes place in the cities of Besźel and Ul Qoma. These two cities actually occupy much of the same geographical space, but via the volition of their citizens (and the threat of the secret […]
Reflection on the “Open Education – a New World Order” session
At the Cetis conference 2014, Stephen and I facilitated a session on “Open Education and MOOCs”. We began with two very interesting presentations from Audrey Watters, a freelance journalist, and Amy Woodgate from The University of Edinburgh. They offered two different perspectives: MOOCs as teaching machines vs MOOCs as teaching experiments. Audrey shared some insights […]
#Cetis14 Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy
Last week Li and I ran a session at the Cetis Conference on Open Education: From Open Practice to Open Policy. My initial plan had been to focus on questions such as: What, if any, is the value of open education policy? Do institutions need open education policies? Should government agencies play a role in […]
Who is using LRMI metadata?
One question that we always get asked about LRMI is “who is using it?” There are two sides to this, use by search service providers and use by resource providers, this post touches on the latter. In phase 2 of the LRMI project, various organizations were given small amounts of money to implement LRMI in […]
When does a book become a web platform?
During last week’s CETIS conference I ran a session to assess how ebooks can function as an educational medium beyond the paper textbook. After reminding ourselves that etextbooks are not yet as widespread as ebook novels, and that paper books generally are still most widely read, we examined what ebook features make a good educational […]
Cetis14 Day2
A few tweets from the second day of the Cetis conference in Storify. I’ve added a couple of additional tweets at the end with were no longer available on Storify. Every year I say never again – but the feedback has been so positive from cetis14, that we’re planning Cetis 2015 in Bolton next June. […]
#cetis14 day1 storify
The Cetis Conference is over for another year. Being the conference organiser means I don’t get to focus on one session for long. I’ve captured my favourite tweets in a storify, I hope they give an impression of the event. [View the story “Cetis14 Day 1 – storify” on Storify]
LRMI at the Cetis conference 2014
On 17th-18th June, in Bolton, Cetis had their more-or-less annual conference. One of the sessions was Lorna and me, with some help from our friends, discussing LRMI addressing the question “What on Earth Could Justify Another Attempt at Educational Metadata?” Lorna started with an overview of our involvement in educational metadata, from EEVL and FAILTE, through […]
What is Open Knowledge culture?
At the recent Cetis conference – #cetis14 on twitter – Brian Kelly and I ran a session called “Open Knowledge: Wikipedia and Beyond”. The outcomes were much more interesting than might have been guessed – worthy of a post! Wikipedia has culture, or cultures. I personally have little experience of them, simply from doing little […]