Open Access Week Webcasts September 28, 2010
Hi John and open letters readers.
Open letters readers - John and I have a long-standing interest in self-directed learning and Internet-enabled learning, and we are currently looking at how to bring more of those opportunities to people in and around Fantsuam through the Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC)John - I have copied a list of events for you from Open Access Week. This may be a bit of a tease as they are webcasts, so I imagine they will be too bandwidth hungry for you, unless you happen to be on your travels somewhere bandwidth rich. However I thought that you may like to know what will be going on.
Pamela
Events http://openaccess.athabascau.ca/events.php
Monday, October 18 - Using Open Production of Course Content to make a Difference.
Dr. Wayne Mackintosh is the Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, member of the Board of Directors of the Open Education Foundation, and founder of the WikiEducator project. He is an internationally acclaimed advocate and organizer of systems and communities to collaboratively build quality course materials
Noon to 1 p.m., Mountain Time (Canada)
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Tuesday, October 19 - Open Opportunity through Open Scholarship and Open Publication
Dr Frits Pannekoek is the President of Athabasca University and President of the International Council on Open and Distance Education. He is an advocate for the open distribution of scholarly works and has been the driving force behind Athabasca University Press- Canada's first Open Access Press
Noon to 1 p.m., Mountain Time (Canada)
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Wednesday, October 20 - Open Educational Resources and Copyright
Dr Rory McGreal is the Assoc. Vice President of Research at Athabasca University. He is an expert on copyright law and its application to education and learning resources. He is also the editor of a bestselling book on educational learning objects and research interests in mobile learning.
Noon to 1 p.m., Mountain Time (Canada)
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Thursday, October 21 - Managing and Learning in MOOCs (massive open online courses)
George Siemens, with Athabasca's Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, is best known for his development of the pedagogical model of networked learning known as Connectivism. He and Steven Downes have pioneered the development of massive open courses, in which many hundreds of students study and learn in open and networked contexts.
Noon to 1 p.m., Mountain Time (Canada)
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Friday, October 22 - Panel on Open Library, Scholarship and Learning at Athabasca University
Tony Tin, founder of Athabasca University's digital content repository, AUSpace, discusses the organization of AUSpace, its benefits for open access support, researchers and organizations, and research findings of AUSpace use.
Dr Terry Anderson, Canada Research in Distance Education at Athabasca University, overviews open scholarship and his work as author and editor of open books and the International Review of research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL).
Dr Cindy Ives, Director of the Centre for Learning Design and Development (CLDD) at Athabasca University, discusses recent projects in the CLDD that have focused on open access including initiatives to produce and share open educational resources, to use open resources in course materials, and to find and aggregate open materials for adaptation and inclusion in program development.
Colin Elliott, Digitization co-ordinator with AU Library Service, discusses the Bibliography of the Athabasca River Basin (BARB) which is being developed as an open access research tool to aid in the study and dissemination of research done within the basin. This presentation will focus on the ways in which open access will benefit the BARB project.
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