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App and Resource Store – soft launch

Posted on behalf of Justin Haylock, senior innovation developer. Just over a month ago I wrote to tell you about the upcoming “Store” that my team and I have had the pleasure of developing.  I outlined the way in which the Store will allow for better discovery, the ability to rate and review resources and […]

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UKOER – don’t stop believing!

It’s all been happening on the OER front recently, with a number of events and materials continuing the amazing work kicked off by the Jisc/Academy UKOER programme. First up, Lou McGill, Allison Littlejohn and I delivered a webinar for Open Education Week discussing some of the findings of the OER Evaluation and Synthesis project. This […]

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Content farming? OER and quality at #msuokc

I was delighted to be asked by Christine Geith, Karen Vignare and their team at Michigan State University to attend and facilitate at the Open Knowledge Convening linked to the AgShare2 project (which is supported by the Gates Foundation). I’ve long been an advocate of the way AgShare has taken almost wonkish open education ideas […]

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Academy/JISC OER phase 3: initial information on JISC Funding Roadmap

I’m not sure whether everyone is aware of the JISC funding roadmap. It’s the best way of getting the maximum possible notice of forthcoming JISC (and joint) funding opportunities. If you’d read this page this morning, you’d have spotted the following. (As with everything on the funding roadmap, this is subject to confirmation, change and […]