1. Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences 2013
(blogs/ishansa)

... Institutional Mission Seminar, organized by the Council of Independent Colleges, location to be announced, USA. http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/grants/vocation_mission.asp   February ...

2. A world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives
(blogs/ishansa)

... of OER projects in the world – how do I know what is going on in my own country? And how do I find contacts in other countries, or contacts working in my own language?     ...

3. Symposium Presentations
(oersymposium/oersymposium)

... - CHOOSING THE RIGHT PLATFORM FOR OER PROJECTS Kerry de Hart and Truida Oosthuizen, Unisa - AN OVERVIEW OF THE STRATEGIC OER POSITIONING OF THE ONLY DEDICATED ODL UNIVERSITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Anne ...

4. Symposium Speeches (Abstracts)
(oersymposium/oersymposium)

... He has published extensively in this area include several books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers and his consultancies include numerous curriculum development projects in South Asia, ...

5. Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences
(blogs/ishansa)

... 2012 Open Source Bridge: Connecting Developers Across Projects, Languages and Backgrounds, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://opensourcebridge.org/   June 26-29, 2012 National Conference on Student ...

6. E-learning and Open Educational Resources: Practices and new initiatives
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...  Overview of OER round the world 2:55 – 3:25   Mr Ishan Abeywardena   Report on OER projects in Asia 3:25 ...

7. OER Policy Registry: Request for Help
(blogs/ishansa)

... barrier to participation. CC is in contact with other projects that started to collect similar information, including UNESCO, CoL, the Florida Distance Learning Consortium, EU OCW and a project ...

8. OPENCOURSEWARE CONSORTIUM DECLARES FIRST ANNUAL OPEN EDUCATION WEEK FOR MARCH 5-10, 2012
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... director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. “Open Education Week will showcase projects, resources, people and ideas so that people around the world can see the breadth of what has been accomplished ...

9. Determining a long-term strategy for the sustainability of your OER venture
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... around for successful model projects. Does that sound familiar?   This unit will help you :   understand the meaning of sustainability read exhaustive studies on how successful ...

10. Methods for management of OER materials
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... in document management If you examine the resources posted by existing OER projects, you will find that they are collaborative in nature; there are multiple team members who have contributed to ...

11. Understanding the importance of quality assurance
(Projects/OER Workshop)

...  How OER projects implement quality assurance  The process of OER development has multiple contributors, the most important of which are the users of the material. The users determine the ...

12. Managing OER - selecting appropriate storage and retrieval facilities
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... LMS and service support. Popular open source LMS projects include Moodle (www.moodle.org) and Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org). These are LMS software that may be downloaded for free and deployed on ...

13. Learning Objects - definition, nature, types and creation
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... tools Lessons can be a combination of text, graphics, animation, audio, questions and exercises; articles, case studies, discussion boards, research projects or performance tests    Take ...

14. Finding free or open-licensed digital images
(Projects/OER Workshop)

...    Wikimedia Commons for images, video and sound files Wikimedia Commons is another useful source of images for OER projects. Wikimedia Commons is a media file ...

15. Evaluating digitization options
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... and implementing institution-wide software applications.  Fortunately, there are a number of software applications for OER projects that do not require a high level of technical expertise. When ...

16. Assessing your plan of action
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... and labour market need." OER stories: BCcampus (Stacey,P. 2007) Duplication There may already be high quality OER projects available in a particular subject area. Rather than duplicating efforts, ...

17. Examining sample OER projects and materials
(Projects/OER Workshop)

Reviewing existing OER projects and their resources An important first step in building your own OER initiative is to review sample materials from existing projects. From reviewing these ...

18. Planning a project and selecting materials
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... your project is successful. OER projects should usually address the following points in a planning document: State the purpose and main objectives of the project, and describe the reasons ...

19. Defining the needs of an OER project
(Projects/OER Workshop)

Objectives and timing This workshop module invites you to examine existing open educational resource (OER) projects and begin to explore and determine the time, human resources, and planning ...

20. Background to OER development
(Projects/OER Workshop)

... can be traced back to developments in open and distance learning (ODL) and the emergence of collaborative peer-production communities, such as developer communities for open source software projects. This ...