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Differences in managing learning materials? Last week CETIS organised a workshop at the repository fringe 2011 #rfringe11 on the Advances in Open Systems for Learning Materials (#rfCETIS ). Phil’s collected blog posts and presentations-here. This post is to briefly capture some of the discussion around the warm up act – our attempt to help the workshop participants, think about some of the different challenges that arise when managing learning materials.

Both to help those participants coming from a more general repository background think through any possible differences which managing learning materials might make to their practice and systems, but also to remind participants of the different requirements which emerge from different types of learning materials. The activity was to consider the differences between an OER collection (of any type(s) of material) and a collection of high stakes summative question items (and answers/ rubrics). Issues in managing materials for learning and teaching Can students contribute? Jorum listens: Towards a new vision and approach :: May 2011 :: News :: Mimas. Jorum has been listening to its users and stakeholders and is changing to respond to the rapidly evolving Higher Education and technological environment that we inhabit. As we consider the feedback and plan Jorum’s future trajectory, it becomes clear that if Jorum is to thrive in the future, we must examine our approaches anew – and with a critical eye.

We must now strive towards a new vision where Jorum becomes a shared national service for discovering Open Educational Resources (OER) that also fosters the ecology of reuse of those resources across the sector and beyond. In pursuing this, we are confident that Jorum can become pivotal to the achievement of excellence in learning and teaching and support others with the same aims.

Amber Thomas, JISC Programme Manager (Digital Infrastructure), states: “It’s great to see that Jorum has been listening to feedback. It’s over a year ago that Jorum started supporting open content, in the context of a global growth in open educational resources. Log in to PhotoWorks or Sign-up with us Today. PhotoWorks is closed, but the good news is we've found a great place for your photos. Shutterfly is the leading photo services company offering award-winning photo products such as photo books, cards, stationary, prints, calendars and photo gifts. To help you get started, we will send you $30* to spend at Shutterfly. Please transfer your photos to Shutterfly before 11:59pm EDT on May 2, 2011. Don't have a PhotoWorks account? Visit Shutterfly . If you have questions, please read our Frequently Asked Questions or for more information, contact us via email. *Offer valid only for customers who transfer their PhotoWorks photos to Shutterfly through 11:59pm EDT May 2, 2011.

BlendEd Project. Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start elearning. Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning November 22, 2004 George Siemens Learning Management Systems (LMS) are often viewed as being the starting point (or critical component) of any elearning or blended learning program. This perspective is valid from a management and control standpoint, but antithetical to the way in which most people learn today. LMS' like WebCT, Blackboard, and Desire2Learn offer their greatest value to the organization by providing a means to sequence content and create a manageable structure for instructors/administration staff. Godfrey Parkin states: "But an LMS, as available today, is not a universal solution for a corporation’s e-learning problems. Drawbacks to Learning Management Systems Certain learning tasks are well suited for an LMS (centralized functions like learner administration and content management). The following are some of the more glaring weaknesses of an LMS: Many viable alternatives exist to locked-down, closed LMS'.

Design for learning key outcomes. A selection of key documents and reports from the first phase of activities under the Designing for Learning theme of the e-Learning and Pedagogy programme have been highlighted (10th September 2004). A detailed overview of all the programme activities together with commentary on how the outcomes and recommendations from completed activities may be taken forward is contained in 'Designing for Learning: An update on the Pedagogy strand of the JISC eLearning programme1'.

Work Package 1a A review of available approaches to modelling (e)learning, including key definitions and scoping of the proposed projects. Review: developing e-Learning Models for the JISC Practitioner Communities2 Helen Beetham Appendices to the Review3 Work Package 1b e-Learning Models desk study This study carried out by Chimera: Institute of Socio-technical Innovation and Research, University of Essex under Professor Chris Fowler is now complete. Work Package 2 Work Package 4a Work Package 4b Work package 4c Work Package 3b.

Didet : Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Desi. Sharing e-Learning Content ITT. JISC wishes to commission an individual or team to review and synthesise the work of various specified projects and programmes engaged in the development, use and sharing of elearning content. We are commissioning this study in order to support JISC in planning future funding calls and to further the dissemination of programme outcomes. The proposed study will be focused on deliverables and reports from a variety of projects and programmes, including the JISC Jorum1, the Digital Libraries in the Classroom programme2, the Distributed e-Learning programme3, the FAIR programme4, the Digital Repositories programme5, e-Learning Transformational projects6 (funded by the Scottish Funding Council) and the Exchange for Learning7 (X4L) staff development resources.

It is estimated that this study will require between 30 and 40 days work, during the period May to September 2007. A full version of the ITT can be found below. Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference. Posted by Tom Foremski - November 2, 2010 Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context.

Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it's still not curation but aggregation So what is curation? Here is my definition: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context. An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museums is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay's permanent collection. Curation is about choosing what's in a collection. . - Pearltrees is dynamic.