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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 11/5/2008 02:40
The case study of Free High School Science Texts (FHSST)—conducted by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education—highlights several practices associated with the successes and challenges encountered by the project as it worked to create freely available, high quality science and math textbooks for South African schools. The study revealed that a central issue... [ read ]
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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 13/11/2007 09:04
A collaborative, participatory framework for teaching and learning, where teachers and learners take on the role of active “researchers” in the instruction process, was an important theme that drove discussions, informal talks over coffee, and several of the presentations at the 2007 OpenLearn conference in Milton Keynes, UK.
The presentation of the Free High School Science... [ read ]
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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 23/10/2007 01:22
On Oct. 30-31, members of the global open educational resources (OER) community will present their research into the challenges of sustaining and facilitating the movement at the OpenLearn 2007 conference in Milton Keynes, UK. Hosted by the Open University UK, the conference has four main themes: research agenda, sustainability, user experience, and software and tools. The overreaching... [ read ]
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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 29/9/2007 02:03
The write up of the Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) case study report is nearing completion. The FHSST case study shows, among other things, that creating and sustaining OER is an iterative, experimental, and adaptive process that takes place within a continuously changing environment and shifting stakeholder needs, and that a culture of collaboration plays an important role... [ read ]
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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 31/8/2007 07:00
On August 21-23, several open textbook project leaders, researchers, collaborators and open textbook publishers met at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to discuss how the development and use of open textbooks is best supported and sustained. At the meeting, which was hosted by the Hewlett Foundation and UC Irvine’s Distance Learning Center, there were presentations... [ read ]
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Cynthia Jimes, Half Moon Bay (United States) · 13/8/2007 22:46
The OER Case Study project is progressing, both in terms of data collection and framework development, as well as in terms of engaging the OER community members around the project.
The pre-conference day to the 2007 iSummit in Dubrovnik provided an opportunity to share early learnings about the Case Study Project, and to push thinking around sustainability within and across... [ read ]
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New upgrades to icommons.org
We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video... more
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