PeerWise supports students in the creation, sharing, evaluation and discussion of assessment questions.
Students use PeerWise to create and to explain their understanding of course related assessment questions, and to answer and discuss questions created by their peers.
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[course] EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education
EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education
by Alec Couros
EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education is an open access graduate course from the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This course is available to both for-credit and non-credit participants. It features openly available, live, and recorded presentations from notable educators & theorists. It is anticipated [...]
[link] booki.cc
More than just a free software Booki helps you make free books – beautiful real paper books and ebooks.
Collaborate online and create open textbooks and any other publication you can think of. Booki facilitates the production of books through simple and effective book production tools.
With Booki you can write a book by yourself or with [...]
[tweetchat] Learning in the cloud
edCetra Training will begin hosting a monthly TweetChat about learning in the cloud on Wednesday, September 7th at 12pm EST, using the hashtag #clouduc8 (pronounced “cloud-ucate”).
Topics of the #clouduc8 TweetChat will include cloud-based tools and technologies, evolution of learning in the cloud, content curation, semantic languages for describing learning, design and development of Web-based learning, [...]
[conference] EARLI Online 2011 – 31.08-01.09.2011
The EARLI online virtual conference is on the theme of ‘Education for a Global Networked Society’. The EARLI virtual conference will be a practical realisation of the theme of education for a global networked society, allowing anyone in the world to participate in the EARLI conference.
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[link] All About Creative Commons And Copyright For Educators
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[link] Europaweite Datenbank für Weiterbildungsangebote für Lehrende
Weiterbildungseinrichtungen können Bildungsangebote in der Comenius-Grundtvig-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission europaweit veröffentlichen. Interessierten hilft die Datenbank bei der Recherche nach europaweiten Weiterbildungsangeboten. Sie vereint Weiterbildungsangebote für Lehrende verschiedenster Organisationen und Unternehmen. Für LehrerInnen, ErwachsenenbildnerInnen und weiterem pädagogisch tätigen Personal gibt sie einen europaweiten Überblick über Weiterbildungen, Seminare, Konferenzen und mehr.
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[course] P2PU: School of Ed Pilot
This pilot program will include seven free, online, open-licensed courses for teachers. The content focus of these courses is on using innovative methods to encourage deeper learning for students. This will be modeled through innovative professional development courses focused on peer learning and hands-on, learner-driven tasks.
Course titles include: Differentiating Instruction, Student Engagement, OER in the [...]
[course] Open Course on P2PU: DIY U – Getting Started With Self Learning
DIY U – Getting Started With Self Learning
by Anya Kamenetz & Alison Jean Cole of P2PU
Starting August 30
It’s based on the Anyas Edupunks’ Guide. The goal: create and share a personal learning plan and find others who can help you on your learning journey.
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[link] UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning: #MetaOER Project
#MetaOER is a project of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning devoted to the promotion and awareness of the Open Educational Resources (OER), using Social Tagging to identify key open resources on open educational resources and create a basic collection with them in an Open Repository. The final stage of the project consists on creating [...]
[course] SCoPE-Seminar: Designing OERu Credentials
[ 29. August 2011; 00:00; ] SCoPE-Seminar: Designing OERu Credentials
As a follow on to the February, 2011 Open Educational Resource University discussion, this 2-week seminar explores the design of credentials to support a new way of thinking about post secondary models. With Paul Stacey & Wayne Mackintosh
29.08.-13.09.2011
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[link] Newsletter of the IEEE Learning Technology SubCommittee (IEEE-LTSC)
Special issue on Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content, Vol. 13.3, July 2011
[presentation] Making Education more open, by Andy Lane
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[link] E-learning tools and resources for schools and education – Mind Map
This is a collection of usefull web and social media applications for anyone in education.
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[link] P2PU & Mozilla: Open Badges Project Page
P2PU & Mozilla: An open platform that will enable anyone to issue, collect and display badges. Providing learners with new ways to get public recognition for their skills and achievements.
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[presentation] Making education more open by Andy Lane, York July 2011
Presentation given at SCORE Introduction to OER at York, 27th July 2011…
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[presentation] Open for learning workshop SCORE in July 2011, by Stephen Stapleton
Background – Understanding OERs: What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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[link] OPAL OER case studies – Cloudworks
This cloudscape has been set up as a space for the OER case studies that have been gathered as part of the OPAL project. The case studies were collated as part of Work Package 3 Deliverable D3.1 ‘Scope of desk research & case study identification’, which consisted of a review of 58 case studies of [...]
[link] Virtual Training Suite – Developing Internet research skills
A set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course.
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[course] New MOOC: Pedagogy First! Program for Online Teaching’s Certificate Class for 2011-12
Lisa Lane, a veteran of several MOOCs is launching a MOOC stating in September on the subject of online pedagogy.
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