Category: Open access
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 2
Open educational resources I missed the second session of the Mozilla Open Education course that was held about two weeks ago because of Internet issues, and only just had the opportunity to listen to the audio. Here are my notes from the session, which featured a panel of experienced users and creators of Open Education…
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Mozilla Open Education course and other thoughts
I was unable to participate in the second session for the Mozilla Open Education course due to local Internet problems that meant I had no sound. While it was frustrating to begin with, I realised that this is the reality of the situation in most countries and that while we talk about open this and…
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Mozilla Open Education course – Overview
cclearn, course, creative commons, education, education portal, Firefox, frank hecker, internet life, Mark Surman, mozilla, Mozilla camp Create, Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla technology, MozOpenEdCourse, oer, open content, open education, open educational resources, open licensing, open technology, p2pu, pedagogy, peer groups, peer to peer university, Peer University, philip schmidt, seminarWe had our first session of the Mozilla Open Education Course earlier this evening and it was pretty interesting. There were a few technical issues with sound but generally it was very well done. Thanks to everyone who made it possible. Here’s a few notes that I took during the session. I know the video…
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Mozilla Open Education Course
I’m excited to be participating in an open education course that’s been organised by Mozilla, ccLearn and the Peer to peer university (P2PU). The course aims to provide educators with some foundational awareness of Creative Commons licensing, the educational aspect of the Mozilla foundation and the P2PU. There are three broad areas that will be…
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Downtime and OpenPhysio
I’m on holiday for a couple of weeks so I’ll probably be posting less than usual, although I’ll still try to put up anything that’s vaguely interesting. I’m going to try and put some work into OpenPhysio, adding more articles and improving the ones already available (up to 61 articles so far). While the project…
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Wikipedia as a reference (part II)
Edit (25/09/08): Here’s an article discussing the use of Wikipedia by students. It’s interesting because of the subject but also because it gives some insight into the research method used to come up with the data. A few months ago I mentioned the fact that the use of Wikipedia as a source of credible information for…
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OpenPhysio launched
OpenPhysio is an attempt to create a free, online, learning resource for physiotherapy students, physiotherapists and physiotherapy educators that anyone can edit (think, Wikipedia for physio’s). While I’m sure the idea of students creating content in a (*gasp*) non-accredited, non-peer-reviewed, unstructured and unsupervised environment is horrifying to some, I believe that this is partly where…