OERu 13.10 report From WikiEducator Group photo of the attendees[1] at the 2nd meeting of OERu anchor partners on the occasion of the official launch of the OERu. The second meeting of OERu anchor partners and international launch of the OERu collaboration was hosted by Thompson Rivers University on 31 October and 1 November 2013 in Kamloops, Canada. Sir John Daniel, open learning visionary and former UNESCO Assistant Director General of Education, was the guest of honour and formally launched the OERu website on 1 November 2013. As an open project, all accredited post-secondary institutions are free to join the OERu international partnership. Session 1: Aims of the meeting and meeting our partners Dr Irwin DeVries, Director, Curriculum Development at Thompson Rivers University facilitates the opening session of the 2nd meeting of OERu anchor partners. Dr Alan Shaver, President and Vice-Chancellor, Thompson Rivers University President Alan Shaver welcomed the participants to Thompson Rivers University.
France : Université: le boom des cours gratuits sur Internet Retraités, salariés… Plus besoin d'aller sur les bancs de la fac pour s'instruire. Toutes les universités ont désormais un site Web dédié à l'enseignement (www.universites-numeriques.fr). La plupart ont décidé de faire en sorte que leurs ressources pédagogiques soient de plus en plus souvent rendues publiques. Selon le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, qui a financé la formation de deux mille enseignants en la matière, le volume de cours disponibles en fichiers podcast numérisés, vidéo ou audio, a triplé entre 2009 et 2010, passant de 12.000 à 30.000 heures. «Ce chiffre a sans doute encore doublé depuis», assure le responsable des nouvelles technologies d'une université parisienne. Au point que les enseignants sont régulièrement contactés par des passionnés… qui ne sont plus étudiants depuis longtemps. Marché noir Les leçons rendues accessibles au grand public sont généralement adaptés. «L'idée de partager mes cours me plaît» «Une aventure positive»
20 questions (and answers) about MOOCs « Dave's Educational Blog I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering their questions i have a chance to lay out many of the thoughts that I have had about MOOCs while they have been all the rage here on the internet in the last few weeks. I opened the discussion with a quick personal intro to my contribution to the MOOC discussion and then we moved to Q & A. Feel free to skim along and pick up the part of the discussion that interests you. Intro Edtechtalk and community – 2005 In 2005 Jeff Lebow and I started edtechtalk. What i discovered was that, simply by engaging in random discussions with new people we happened upon – I was learning. Rhizomes 2006 This lead me to new ideas about what it meant to learn and what it meant to know. Q & A. I see it as a win.
Techniques innovantes pour l'enseignement supérieur Duonique Readings in Social Media 2013 - Serendipity35 This will be the fourth summer that I will teach my graduate class in designing social media. Every year, I have asked online for suggestions of book (not usually "textbooks") for the class which is part of the MS in Professional and Technical Communication at NJIT . Students in the PTC program tend to be (or intend to be) designers, technical writers, media & social media managers, but I always get a few students from the management, communications, media, IT and design majors. The course examines how organizations use social media as communication tools for marketing, education & training and community building and students do social media surveys and create strategy proposals for actual organizations. Making the reading selection process itself a social media project seems appropriate. Books and readings in social media go out of date so quickly that it seems foolish to rely on a traditional textbook. I am also a proponent of Open Educational Resources, especially open textbooks.
Arduino Robot : Une plate-forme officielle Arduino dédié à la robotique Lors de la Maker Faire de San Mateo, l’équipe Arduino a présenté sa nouvelle plate-forme dédié à la robotique, l’Arduino Robot. Ce robot a été conçu en collaboration avec Complubot qui ont été quatre fois champion de la Robocup Junior Robotics Soccer. Bref, Arduino Robot est la première carte Arduino dotée de roues pour pouvoir explorer le monde. L’Arduino Robot est composé de deux cartes qui dispose chacune d’un micro-contrôleur ATMEGA32U4 et peut ainsi interagir d’une manière autonome avec leurs capteurs et actionneurs. Control Board La carte Control Board est la partie dédiée à la commande du robot, on y retrouve : Un micro-contreur Atmel ATMega32U4 cadencé à 16 MHzUne zone pour recevoir un afficheur TFT ( comme l’Esplora) et slot micro-SDUn haut-parleurUne EEPROM de 512 KBits en I2CUn potentiomètreUne boussole magnétiqueDes connecteurs et des zones de prototypages Motor Board Il s’agit de la carte dédié à la partie motorisation et alimentation, on retrouve :
Working with Google Drive Please note: this page reflects operations in MindMup 1.0. Version 2.0 only works with Google Drive, and supports collaboration out of the box. For information on connecting the 2.0 version to Google drive, and transferring maps from 1.0 to 2.0, see MindMup 2.0 For Google Drive Migration guide. Google Drive is a cloud storage from Google that you can use to store and manage private maps, or collaborate with colleagues and friends in a controlled environment. Prerequisites You will need a Google account to store files to Drive. MindMup does not need to know any particular details about your Google account and when working with Drive, the data passes from your browser to Drive directly, without going to our servers. Getting started The first time you try to save a map to Google Drive, or to open a map stored on Google Drive by someone else, MindMup will ask you to authorise access to your Drive. The operation you started (saving or loading) will now continue. Saving Maps to Google Drive
Why Some Colleges Are Saying No to MOOCs, at Least for Now - Technology By Steve Kolowich Amherst College, known for its selectivity, is accustomed to sending rejection notices. But when the liberal-arts beacon this month turned down an invitation to join the exclusive partnership of colleges offering massive open online courses through edX, it nonetheless drew surprise from many corners of academe. Colleges have clamored to be part of the high-profile consortiums run by edX, a Cambridge-based nonprofit, and Coursera, a Bay Area start-up—often with little input from faculty members. But Amherst's rejection of edX, decided by a faculty vote, could mark a new chapter for MOOCs—one in which colleges revert to their default modes of deliberations and caution. If MOOCs portend a "tsunami" of change in higher education, as observers have said, then many colleges have been willingly swept in by the undertow. Offering MOOCs through edX is hardly free. There are also significant labor costs that come with offering MOOCs. On Their Own Tekla A. Stephen A.