Oslo

We’ve been talking for months about having a meeting to get people with vested interests in Open Learning Support and EduCommons together to talk requirements. We’re now ready to hold these meetings and want to do it during the last week of January. However, we want to hear from people before the specific dates are fixed. Would those interested in coming prefer M-W or W-F? Please let me know in the comments below if you intend on coming and what days you prefer. We’ll be sending out an agenda and preliminary documents for your plane reading pleasure the week before the meetings. ...

Many individuals and institutions are now teaching online. Many instructors have tried to do “the responsible thing” and use “proven, battle-tested” classroom teaching methods in their online courses. And at first this seems the only ethical, responsible thing to do… ...

So I had to move the announcements, but the advertisements for our two full-time software engineers are back online, now at “http://oslo.usu.edu/jobs.html":http://oslo.usu.edu/jobs.html

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will be funding the OSLO Research Group’s next two projects. Synopses follow. Open Learning Support (OLS), our partnership with MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, will build a social infrastructure around the OCW materials, allowing informal study groups to form and enabling learners to provide and receive peer support while using the OCW materials. EduCommons is our “SourceForge for educational materials” project. We hope that EduCommons will facilitate the development and release of significant new educational materials for years to come, including derivative works based on / localizations of OCW content. ...