http://www.oerderves.org Musings on open educational resources by Mike, Cathy, Phoenix and Vic Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:05:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Open University and Carnegie Mellon are working on a proposal to develop infrastructure, community and activity to help share research findings on the design and use of OERs. The draft proposal is available on an open wiki at http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/OPLRN_proposal with a discussion area available at http://iet-public-wiki.open.ac.uk/index.php/Talk:OPLRN_proposal http://www.oerderves.org/?p=47 I had the chance to meet with Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation and Eric Moeller, Deputy Director. They sent the following along for anyone interested in working for a great organization.    Wikipedia is about to hire a team of three fundraising people: one focusing on major gifts, one focused on ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=46 The deadline for nominations for the 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC Awards) is April 14, 2008. The MATC Awards consist of up to ten $50,000 or $100,000 prizes, which a receiving institution can use in a variety of ways to continue its technology leadership. The awards honor not-for-profit ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=45 On March 17, 2008 Trustees of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approved $10,075,000 in Open Educational Resources grants to the following organizations: Creative Commons (San Francisco, CA) for general support of Creative Commons and ccLearn. ($4,000,000 over 5 years) Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Los Altos Hills, CA) to plan and ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=44 Please provide feedback on the 2008 Grantee meeting - free form is fine - but questions we are wondering about: 1. Is an annual meeting needed or should we move to an every other year schedule? 2. What is the value of bringing the full community together vis-a-vis segements of the community, ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=43 Hewlett Phase 2 OER Strategy  The blog is back! Mike, Phoenix, Vic and I will be posting to the blog on a regular basis - sharing thoughts, challenges and updates as our collective work on Open Educational Resources moves ahead. Attached please find the deck that describes Hewlett's developing phase ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=41 The Original A Revision K-12 Version http://www.oerderves.org/?p=40 Over the next few weeks we will post comments about a lot of interesting OER.   Keep an eye on this page.  Go to this link. http://www.oerderves.org/?p=38 OERderves is on vacation until April 1, 2008. Please check back with us then. The management http://www.oerderves.org/?p=35 Laurie Racine has generously offered to Hewlett grantees and other OER projects the use of the dotSUB tools for anything related to translation and closed captioning of any video you might need in multiple languages. There is no cost for this. To fill you in on this you will find a ... http://www.oerderves.org/?p=34