Archive for the 'opensource' Category

The National Strategies Site gets del.icio.us

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Photo remixed from Dev Null’s on Flickr under CC attribution Share-alike Generic

The new National Strategies site has gone over all Web 2.0 – for a start there’s a BETA button on there (my circling in red) plus a groups and discussions feature. I got the nod from Steve Beard via Twitter (another good reason [...]

MIT extends open course software to high schools.

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Five years after the initial pilot of MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, it’s now making its way into secondary education with the launch this week of “Highlights for High School,” which aims to bolster high school STEM education through free and open course materials, from complete curricula and syllabi to videos, lecture notes, and animations.
The OpenCourseWare initiative, [...]

Open education search

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Google are working with the Hewlett Foundation and ccLearn to produce a search engine for Open Educational Resources (OER).
This is an important part of a process in making elearning happen. An easily discovered critical mass of learning resources makes a massive difference swinging the balance between adoption/non-adoption. When it is easier to rely on the [...]

Don’t want that one – want that one…*

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The new NESTA report just out (June 2007) Hidden Innovation – How Innovation happens in six ‘low innovation’ sectors is something that every senior politician and strategic manager in England must read.
In this piece I’ll be concerned with the education bit as that’s what I have done in depth for the last 4 years – [...]