Phil Barker @philbarker@mastodon.social

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

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.)

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

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."

https://digitaldetox.trubox.ca/2020/01/05/digital-detox-1-edtech-and-equity-issues/?unapproved=10&moderation-hash=2cf8c459d540b0ad4d3699e45d63f4ac#comment-10

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

My first #weeknotes for a couple of months, so most of this happened last year.
Includes work on bioschemas, qualification levels & describing OER course materials.
https://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/weeknotes/weeknotes-s2-e9-11-jan-2019/

Ten weird tricks for resisting surveillance capitalism in and through the classroom . . . next term!

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/erin-glass/2018/12/27/ten-weird-tricks-resisting-surveillance-capitalism-and-through-classroom