Open Education Resources or OER’s are educational resources (for example podcasts, video recordings, lecture slides) that have been licenced to allow them to be shared and reused. A quick internet search reveals resources covering such diverse areas as a Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Visualisations and a Math in Society course available from the Open Course …
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Open Educational Resources for Bullying and Mental Health (23 Things – Thing 12)
Thing 12 from 23 Things focuses on Open Educational Resources (OERs). For an educational resource to be Open, it needs to be “Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose” (The Open Definition). We were tasked with finding OERs that were relevant to Read more…
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Bonus Thing C
Have you or would you now consider creating and sharing any of your own materials as OER? The answer is NO. Mainly it’s because I do not consider myself an expert or professional in any way to be able to share any knowledge I have. Educational resources, in my opinion, requires specific and in-depth knowledge towards a…
Thing 12: Open Educational Resources
Sadly, on our Oped.Ed website, there were no related content in the business field or my specific area. But I found something interesting – Videos for international students. I remember that it was especially helpful for preparation to Edinburgh since I was at the other side of the Earth before the arrival. I think OERs open up…
OER’s: Thing 12 of 23
It’s been a while since the last one of these hasn’t it?Since the last 23 things post I did I have been a bit busy becoming a practitioner in the new General Data Protection Regulations (for what it’s worth) and studying for my next Information Securit…
Thing 12 : Open Educational Resources
Learning in the internet nowadays has been improving a lot compared in the past. Online and free materials on almost anything can be…
things to create, curate, collate
Creating a curated collection is one of my favourite passtimes. Selecting items from a larger collection and curating a subset for an exhibition or theme can amuse me for hours. Digital curation is Thing15 of our 23 Things. I do think this is one way in which discerning people can add value to the internet. …
hearing things
Many years ago in a galaxy far, far away Oxford University launched on ItunesU. Here’s the screenshot from BBC ceefax that night. Podcasts are Thing 14 of our 23Things and I am getting nostalgic again. Here’s a case study by Terese Bird of how we approached podcasting at Oxford. And here’s the Oxford podcasts site …
things we can name
My choice of platform for Thing13 of our 23things is Media Hopper. You may wonder why Media Hopper is called Media Hopper. You will know the following definitions of hopper: hopper ( agric) : a container for a loose bulk material. hopper ( minecraft ): a block that can be used to catch item entities, …
Thing 12 – OERs
“Knowledge Sharing” by Ewa Rozkosz is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 2.0. The SSSC Learning Technology team strongly believe in the principles of OER, and as such, has made much of its work available in formats which allow others to use the information to develop their own resources. It’s been licensed under a Creative Commons…
23 Things: Thing 13 Video
So here’s a thing…. (thing…get it?) …. although I consume as much online video as the next person I don’t actually produce a great deal, though there are plenty of embarrassing videos of me on YouTube from various conferences and events. Recently however I did have to produce a couple of videos. The first was […]
people make things open
Thing 12 of our 23 things is OER. I talk a lot about OER. Last week I was talking about it in Barcelona, this week I’m talking about it in Paris, in two weeks I’ll be in Berlin. I also write a bit about OER. On this blog and occasionally for case studies and articles. …