Anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) Licence

As it’s Open Education 2019 in Arizona next week I have had to get a little ahead on the CC Certification course assignments.  We were asked to write another presentation, this time on the parts that make up a Creative Commons licence. Anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) Licence from Robert Farrow

What is copyright?

We have our second assignment for our Creative Commons course due today.  This time we were asked to write a short presentation on copyright basics.   If you find any slides useful feel free to make use of them! What is Copyright? from Robert Farrow  

Creative Commons TimeLine

I am currently studying for a Creative Commons certificate for educators and we have our first assignment. We were asked to publish assignments online, so I’m putting mine here on the blog. Although all the content on this blog is CC-BY I’ve added additional attribution.  The brief was to write a timeline for Creative Commons …

UK Open Textbooks: key points

Last month I presented the UK Open Textbooks project at the Learning On/With the Open Web event organised by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab and held at the Coventry Transport Museum. You can see the submission here but I thought it was a good idea to record the headlines here in case the conference site …

MOOC and the workplace: key support elements in digital lifelong learning #bizmooc

Here are my slides from today’s presentation at Upgrading Business Competence Globally For Today and Tomorrow at the Cracow University of Economics.

What I heard, what I did not hear and what I wish I had heard… Reflections on the World Conference on Online Learning, Toronto, 2017

Originally posted on opendistanceteachingandlearning:
Recently I’ve had the privilege of attending the World Conference on Online Learning in Toronto, organized and hosted by Contact North I Contact Nord. What a conference it was! At times, it resembled a medieval marketplace or bazaar with a variety of voices and opinions demanding attention. In addition, amid the…

Intervention – “Control, Resistance, and the ‘Data University’: Towards a Third Wave Critique”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by The Analogue University[1] From Auditing, Controlling, to Desiring Data The term “neo-liberal university” has become shorthand for a range of contemporary pressures in university life (Burrows 2012; Strathern 2000). However, increasingly we are not only considering specific pressures – such as workload, anxiety, and the reduction of research to…

Open Educational Resources from Government and Partliament

Originally posted on OUseful.Info, the blog…:
Mentioning to a colleague yesterday that the UK Parliamentary library published research briefings and reports on topics of emerging interest, as well as to support legislation, that often provided a handy, informed, and politically neutral  overview of a subject area that could make for a useful learning resource,…

Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

Originally posted on aNtiDoTe Zine:
Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself Psychometrics and the (counter)revolution in marketing that is helping bring fascism to power around the world AntiNote: The following is an unauthorized translation of a December 2016 article that caused quite a stir in the German-language press. Das Magazin (Zurich) occupies a…

The Higher Education and Research Bill

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The third and final reading of the UK’s HE Bill has been scheduled for next Monday, 21 November. If it passes the Commons and then the Lords, it will become law. Thanks in part to the turmoil around Brexit, this Bill has flown under the radar for virtually…