Last week I read a really interesting paper about OER management in Ireland[1]. Here's my blog post about it https://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/devolved-management-of-oer-in-irish-higher-education/
1. Angelica Risquez, Claire McAvinia, Yvonne Desmond, Catherine Bruen, Deirdre Ryan, and Ann Coughlan. (2020) “Towards a Devolved Model of Management of OER? The Case of the Irish Higher Education Sector” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol 21, No 1 available at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/download/4545/5272?inline=1
Interested in #LRMI/schema.org metadata for educational resources? Join today's #dcmi2020 session at 15:00 UTC. https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/presentations/lrmi_metadata_in_use/
My research application has been approved.
I'm looking for open educators to participate in a research study! I hope you will take some time to share your thoughts. This study has been approved by the U of Calgary Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board (REB20-1113).
I hope some folks from here might consider contributing as my initial questions emerged from here 🙏
Reconsidering Scale within Open Education: https://survey.ucalgary.ca/jfe/form/SV_d459DJZMuDvhI0J
Is there a good directory of #coops that offer services alternative to mainstream ones, especially for devs? E.g. alternatives to GitHub, website hosting, email hosting, cloud storage, etc
Remember when a Google #search used to lead you somewhere?
Now it increasingly just keeps you on Google. In fact, Google results take up 62.6% of the first screen of search results in a sample of 15,000 searches.
#Google is building a walled garden that encompasses some of the most accessed information on the internet with no recourse for businesses who are suddenly finding themselves on the wrong side, cut off from their users.
If you're involved with WordPress or ClassicPress you might be interested in a conference I am helping organize, even though it happens in the other place:
https://2020.heypresstoconf.org/
Hey Pressto! Conference 2020
A WordPress and ClassicPress conference which happens only on Twitter
@bgcarlisle My favourite use of singular “they” is Virginia Woolf’s use of it for Orlando in their moment of transition. That was 1928.
Coko Foundation announce the Open Publishing Awards 2020 https://coko.foundation/2020-update-6-announcing-the-open-publishing-awards-2020/
If you're in to #oer the winners of the 2019 awards are worth a look, see https://openpublishingawards.org/
Remember when people (maybe including me) were saying that you didn't need metadata when you had Google. I think Google needing schema.org clarified that one, but here's confirmation that it's proper metadata not just a few key/value pairs https://www.seroundtable.com/google-schema-markup-harder-28928.html
70 years today since George Orwell died. Here's a page that let's you search works by and about George Orwell. http://pjjk.net/orwellsearch/
(play around with the filters after a search, often that gives more results.)
I wrote a guest blog post for #alt upcoming #oer20 conference where I mention Mastodon, PLN's, and the tension being an open educator in an age of surveillance
Contesting Open Spaces : OER20
https://oer20.oerconf.org/news/2020/01/contesting-open-spaces/
Last week I read a really interesting paper about OER management in Ireland[1]. Here's my blog post about it https://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/devolved-management-of-oer-in-irish-higher-education/
1. Angelica Risquez, Claire McAvinia, Yvonne Desmond, Catherine Bruen, Deirdre Ryan, and Ann Coughlan. (2020) “Towards a Devolved Model of Management of OER? The Case of the Irish Higher Education Sector” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol 21, No 1 available at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/download/4545/5272?inline=1
Nearly 70 years since George Orwell died, so I've been fixing a google custom search engine of works by and about him that I wrote a while back.
https://www.pjjk.net/orwellsearch/index.html
We're hiring!
Are you a software engineer who cares deeply about CI/CD, code review, and development environments? Apply to work with the Release Engineering team (a part of our Engineering Productivity team) at the Wikimedia Foundation!
#remote #jobs #remotejobs #hiring #opensource #freesoftware #wikipedia #wikimedia
Who do I know here who is following the #TRUDigitalDetox ? Brenna writes that "it is my intention that you will finish out this month with a sense of hopefulness about the possibilities of a relationship to technology that is, at its core, deeply ethical."
Technology improving learning – an edtech meta-analysis
I'm re-tuning my network antenna for a new open education tech project I am going to be working on.
via GIPHY
I'll have more details to share on the project in the coming weeks, but suffice to say that it has put a spring in my step this week, thanks in no small part to providing me with the opportunity to deeply r
https://edtechfactotum.com/edtech-meta-analysis/
#adaptivelearning #onlinehomeworksystems #personalizedlearning
@aral Have you heard of "free as in helicopter"?
Someone gives you a free helicopter. Awesome, right? But if you don't know how to fly a helicopter it's useles to you.
#weeknotes #metadata #markdown and other niche work-related stuff
This time:
- how I got into workforce signalling;
- a python extensions for metadata in markdown;
- keeping a notebook that exemplifies what your noting.
blogs.pjjk.net/phil/weeknotes…
I'm happy about the progress python markdown extension, and especially happy about how the markdown notebook I kept while developing it made the project self-documenting
Trying to share in the open.
Learning technology, resource description, open education for work; cycling, and random nonsense for play.