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 →
OER: Week 3 – Finding OERs
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. Instructions for this week in my course are to: ...critique a library web site near you (you can use University of Manitoba Libraries, or your own institutional library,... Continue Reading →
Remote Debugging of PHP with Komodo IDE on Mac OS X
I am doing development on Mac OS X 10.7, with Komodo IDE 6.1.3 using PHP and Apache, both installed from Macports. I want to enable remote debugging of my PHP scripts running under Apache using Komodo. Following instructions from Activestate's website, I have configured my system as shown below to make it work. I have... Continue Reading →
Copyrights of publicly funded research
I am responding to a blog post by Stu where he highlights the benefits of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Artefacts created by publicly funded institutions should be licensed in the public domain, using licences such as the creative commons. I agree with you Stu. This ensures that it remains in the public domain, including... Continue Reading →
Week 2: Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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. Open Educational Resources provide an opportunity for educators both individually and as collectives (such as institutions) to work collaboratively rather than competitively on the creation of knowledge and... Continue Reading →
