Ok - here is a question for those of you who are geographically challenged.Where is Villach. Well its in Carinthia of course. And Carinthia is In the eastern corner of Austria - near to Italy and Slovenia.
And Villach is the host to the annual conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning.
Sandra Schaffert from Salzburg Research invited me to take part in a special session on Open Educational Resources and Practices. There were three other presenters, Victoria Hornung, also from Salzburg Institute who presented the excellent OLCOS project, Marcus Deimann from the FernUniveristat in Hagen, Germany presented a paper on integrating Open Educational Resources and Instructional Design and Marco Kalz from the Open University of the Netherlands gave a presentation on recommender systems for finding Open Resources. And I presented a paper by Raymond Elferink and myself on developing an Architecture of Participation.
We had planned a skype conference call to prepare the session but didn’t get our act together. But despite this it worked well. the papers complimented each other. They all had something to say. that is not to say we all agreed. I am extremely dubious of the instructional design approach,. But as George Roberts says, one feature of communities of practice is homogeneous difference. I think that the session reflects the emergence of a community of practice around Open Educational Resources.
Anyway, if you want to find out more, here is a bumper package. The paper (click the link below). The presentation (click on the slide above). And a hastily edited audio of my talk.
Developing an Architecture of Participation
Developing an Architecture of Participation - the talk [19:12m]:
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September 28th, 2007
Welcome to the first of the autumn series of Sounds of the Bazaar. We are proud to announce we have teamed up with Online Educa Berlin to bring you this series. In each of the coming issues we will featuring some of the speakers at forthcoming Educa Online Berlin Conference plus our usual mixture of news and features from the educational technology, open source and open content communities. And we will be podcasting live from the conference. But more on that next month.
We’ve got some pretty heavyweight guests lined up for future programmes including Ewan McIntosh, Dave Wiley and Jay Cross. We are also launching a new series - the Bazaar Unplugged - designed to provide space for newbies to the podcasting scene. If you are teaching podcasting or using podcasting in your courses please do get in touch - Bazaar Unplugged is designed as a showcase for learners be they young or old. The first edition of the new series - due out in the next ten days - is being made by Pontydysgu intern, Adrian Puscuta, about computer games, identities learning and more.
But back to this weeks show. After the summer break, we had a lot of materials in the can so we have produced you a double issue. More than an hours listening.
In the first of the Online Educa special editions, Stephen Downes talks about changing ways in which we are using the internet for learning. Vijay Kumar from MIT and Toru Iiyoshi from the Carnegie Foundation discuss how the development of Open Education can improve quality. And Seb Schmoller explains the background to the Association for Learning Technology’s accredited member scheme. And Web site of the month features the UK Jisc Emerge community. Plus, I talk about future plans for Sounds of the Bazaar. And there is our usual musical interludes with a series of new jingles.
Of course one hour may be a bit too long for one session’s listening (although we find it goes well with watching football with the sound turned down). So you can access each episode separately. And next week there will be an enhanced version available from the iTunes store (see this site for more details).
The full version features music by Stepping Back, a blues-rock band from France. The featured tracks are from their album “Stepping Back“.
And like in the last volume you find this album and a lot more music published under Creative Commons licences on the great music site Jamendo.com.
Enjoy!
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Open Education - interview with Vijay Kumar from MIT and Toru Iiyoshi from the Carnegie Foundation [20:08m]: |
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September 19th, 2007
