OERs: the good, the bad and the ugly
I increasingly fear that the open educational resources movement is being used as a way of perpetuating inequalities in education while purporting to...
New UNESCO chair in open educational resources
Stolte, E. (2011) UNESCO link helps Athabasca U. extend reach Edmonton Journal February 4
Rory McGreal, Vice-President Research at Athabasca University, has just been appointed...
e-learning outlook for 2011
What's in my crystal ball for e-learning in 2011? (For how well I did in my predictions for 2010, see e-learning retrospective - how...
OERs for agriculture in Africa
Mallinson, B. (2010) AgShare Open Educational Resources (OER) Collaboration SAIDE Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 6
AgShare is an 18-month planning and piloting project in which...
A gradual move to open-source textbooks
Rosenhall, L. (2010) Internet, cost spur textbook revolt Sacramento Bee, December 6
For those of you who don't get the Sacramento Bee newspaper (you dont?!),...
EURODL call for articles: Fostering Creativity – The Use of Open Educational Resources
Call for EURODL Special Themed Journal Articles: Fostering Creativity - The Use of Open Educational Resources
The European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning announces...
NMC Horizon Report from down under
New Media Consortium (2010) 2010 Horizon Report - Australia-New Zealand Edition Austin TX: New Media Consortium
The NMC brings out its main projections for the...
Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area
I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...
Skills development, credit transfer, quality assurance and the cost of technology in developing countries
These are all topics covered in the October issue of the Commonwealth of Learning's October edition of its Connections journal.
The Commonwealth of Learning is...
Conference in Paris on open educational resources
Invitation to attend:
UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning extend an open invitation to attend a Policy Forum on Open Educational Resources (OERs) next month...