On OER – Beyond Definitions

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I’ve yet to publish anything from my time spent in the UK as an OLNet Fellow. The following bit of writing is one of the outputs from that period, and is informed significantly by conversations with the brilliant and welcome folks at the OU, as well as past online exchanges with many of you. On … Read more

Open Access Seminars @ BYU

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In my capacity as Associate Director of CITES I’m leading two seminars on open access next week at BYU. They’ll be held Thursday 10/6 from 11-12 (as part of the MSE-wide faculty meeting) and Friday 10/21 from 12-1 (with lunch provided) in the TEC lab in the McKay Building. If you’re nearby we’d love to … Read more

Changing How We Think About Self-Organization

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Long-time readers of this blog will remember that I have a long standing interest in self-organization in informal online learning communities (e.g., the 2002 paper on Online Self-Organizing Social Systems, the 2003 paper OSOSS – Crisis / Response, the 2004 paper Sociability and Scalability in Online Learning Environments, etc.). This is an area which I … Read more