Tag Archives: Repositories

Mar 30 2010

OERs: what’s stopping us?

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The recent  M25 Learning Technology Group meeting focussed on Open Educational Resources (OERs).   Despite my somewhat limited knowledge of this topic it fell to me, as the meeting’s organiser, to provide an intro.  So here it is once again if you missed it.  OERs are teaching & learning materials available for reuse without charge. They [...] Continue reading

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Mar 6 2009

Launching JISC Digital Media at BAFTA

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Yesterday afternoon I went off to the salubrious surroundings of Piccadilly to BAFTA headquarters to attend a launch event for the newly rebranded ‘JISC Digital Media‘ service. The new service previously existed under the name TASI, which we were told, … Continue reading

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Feb 19 2009

Language Box

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Today I’ve been attending a Language Box event at Kings: Rethinking Teaching and Learning Repositories. Language Box is a JISC-funded e-repository. I arrived, as is my way, with a healthy scepticism (and a scepticism that’s always higher when it comes … Continue reading

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Jul 7 2008

Languages Show-and-Tell

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Today I attended a Language Centre show-and-tell organised by Hervé Didiot-Cook and attended by teachers from the LSE as well as our good friends from Columbia University Language Resource Center – Bill & Stéphane. Challenges/Risks of Second Life Tamy Zupan, … Continue reading

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Jun 26 2008

Ireland's National Digital Learning Repository

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I had a really interesting meeting this morning with Paul Gormley & Michelle Tooher, staff at CELT, NUI Galway. We were swapping notes on our respective teaching material repositories. On the face of it the projects are very different but … Continue reading

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Feb 6 2008

Open Education

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I have just come across the Cape Town Open Declaration, a “statement of strategy and …commitment [to open education]“. The focus is very much on the development and sharing of ‘open educational resources’ but there is stuff about the sharing … Continue reading

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Nov 9 2007

Investigating Drupal

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I have been looking at Drupal as part of a slow burning project which is aiming to create a repository for language teachers to share teaching resources. The project is a collaboration between 3 universities but will initially run as … Continue reading

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