This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has asked us: Apple recently announced the iBooks 2 - an app that collaborates with major textbook publishers to release books on the apple device. See... Continue Reading →
Week 10: OERs – The dream
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has asked us: What are your impressions of Open data, open research, open books, open journals, open government? Is this the reality or just a dream?... Continue Reading →
Week 9: OERs – Accessibility
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has asked us: An interesting perspective to accesibility is the US's America with disability Act Section 508. Is there as similar act in Canada? Do we... Continue Reading →
Week 8: OERs – The copyright question
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has asked us: Is the preponderance of different types of licenses making it easier to reuse resources, or is it adding another layer of complexity which... Continue Reading →
Week 7: OERs – Integrating OERs into learning and teaching
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has highlighted eight steps to OER integration as described by the OER Handbook. The eight steps are: Assess the validity and reliability of the OER.... Continue Reading →
Week 6: OERs – Reuse…Revise…Remix…Redistribute…
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Our instructor has asked "How does [internationalisation & localisation] apply to OERs? And how can you adapt your own OER content to address issues of local and foreign... Continue Reading →
The future of OERs and the current publishing paradigm
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. I recently read a blog post of a class mate relating to the future of OERs. It has got me thinking further about this very topic and how... Continue Reading →
Week 5: OERs – information accuracy and integrity
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. This week our instructor has given us free reign for our weekly blog topic, in part asking "What are some of the issues that bother you about OER?"... Continue Reading →
OERs: Publishing Software – Open source or Open API
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. I have been asked to comment on the use of “free” open source applications in the context of OERs. I blogged about this just recently. My classmate, Stu... Continue Reading →
Week 4: OER Content Creation
This blog post relates to my study of Open Educational Resources as part of my Emerging Technologies for Learning Program of study at the University of Manitoba. Questions for this week in my course are: How familiar are you with these [Audacity, GIMP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Blogger, Open Office, Google Docs, Blender, and so on]... Continue Reading →
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