Global map of Open Educational Resources

Heather Fond (blog), director of iCommons, created this map of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the most notable activists and organizations in the field. This is pretty awesome - check it out:
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I just added Creative Commons International - who else is missing? If you know any organization or activist, please add them to […]

Workshop on social media in higher education (follow-up)

As mentioned before, earlier this week I had the chance to hold a workshop on social media in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). (Slides below or on Slideshare). It was a great group, very active and engaged despite their completely different backgrounds and the language barrier. (Thanks guys!)
Special thanks, again, to Josep […]

Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education

Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, […]

Widgets Are Your Friend

Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant:

[embed] changes everything
we don’t care
where it came from
if it’s good enough
for government business
salvation
but can you be RSS’d
let someone else make it PORTABLE
WIDGETS are your friend
(via Brian Lamb)

A Vision of Students Today

Michael Wesch created this video in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. A tad too much on the melodramatic side for my personal taste, but it’s a pretty neat video still, with some good points about the education environment students face today.
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