About the CETIS 2014 Conference This year’s Cetis conference, Cetis 2014, will be held at the University of Bolton on 17-18 June. The theme of this year’s event is “Building the Digital Institution“. As described on the conference web site: This year’s conference focuses on the digital institution and explores how technology innovation can support […]
The Biggest Barrier to WebRTC Adoption is Lack of Awareness!
How Appear.in Led Me To WebRTC Back in January 2014 in a guest post published on Sheila MacNeill’s How Sheila See IT blog I reported on our experiments with the appear.in tool. This service provides a lightweight video conferencing tool. As I described in the blog post “unlike Skype, no software needs to be installed and […]
OKF Open Education Working Group Advisory Board
Earlier this month I was delighted to be invited to join the Advisory Board of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Education Working Group. The aim of the group, which is led by Marieke Guy, is “to initiate global cross-sector and cross-domain activity that encompasses the various facets of open education.” Marieke has invited all Board […]
IWMW 2014: Programme Launch
IWMW 2014 I am pleased to announce the launch of the IWMW 2014 Web site. The year’s event takes place at Northumbria University on 16-18 July. As has been the case for the majority of the previous 17 IWMW events, this year’s event will last for 3 days. The price for attendance at this year’s event […]
Filtering Google custom searches on LRMI alignment values
As I said, Wilbert and I are building a Google custom search engine for LRMI-tagged pages. We got a basic search that finds pages that have an educational alignment and matches a search term. Next step is using the properties of the educational alignment to filter the search result based on things that teachers care […]
Welsh Government Report on Open and Online
(Cross posted from Open Scotland blog) Last week the Welsh Government’s Online Digital Learning Working Group published their report Open and Online: Wales, higher education and emerging modes of learning. The group was established in February 2013 by Leighton Andrews AM, the Welsh Government’s Minister for Education and Skills at the time, “to examine the potential for […]
Building a Google custom search engine for LRMI-tagged pages
Wilbert and I are spending the day trying to create a search engine for finding learning resources by searching LRMI-tagged web pages. A bit of code sprint if you like. First attempt: standard custom search engine hosted by Google. 1. Go to https://www.google.com/cse/ set up new search engine. Choose option to “Restrict Pages using Schema.org […]
What is CEN TC 353 becoming?
The CEN TC 353 was set up (about seven years ago) as the European Standardization Technical Committee (“TC”) responsible for “ICT for Learning Education and Training” (LET). At the end of the meeting I will be describing below, we recognised that the title has led some people to think it is a committee for standardising […]
Open Scotland Webinar
Last week Joe Wilson of SQA and I presented a short webinar on the Open Scotland initiative and the Scottish Open Education Declaration. The webinar, which was hosted by Celeste McLaughlin of Jisc RSC Scotland, generated some interesting discussion and debate around open education in Scotland. A recording of the webinar is available here, and […]
Cetis Conference 2014 – fringe activities
Registration has now opened on the Cetis site for the CETIS 2014 conference. From the Cetis site: Each year the Cetis conference provides a unique opportunity for developers, learning technologists, lectures and policy makers to come together to discuss recent innovations in the domain of education technology. This year’s conference focuses on the digital institution […]
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