Category Archives: Open Education

Towards a manifesto for sharing

By Joss Winn | Published: March 5, 2010
One of the conclusions I’ve come to over the course of the ChemistryFM project is that sharing doesn’t need institutionalising. I don’t think we need to develop policy and processes for sharing the work we do. I’ve been drafting the final report for the ChemistryFM project this week and have written that “the overall approach [...]
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OPACPress: Our Talis Incubator proposal

By Joss Winn | Published: January 26, 2010
Yesterday, I submitted a proposal to Talis under their Incubator fund. If successful, I would have the pleasure of working with Paul Stainthorp, E-Resources Librarian at the University of Lincoln, and Casey Bisson,  Information Architect at Plymouth State University. The bid is to develop an idea which I’ve posted about before, based on Casey’s work on [...]
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Pencils and Pixels: Publishing OERs using WordPress (and EPrints)

By Joss Winn | Published: October 29, 2009
I’ve spent much of today trying to finish off a site for anyone interested in learning how to sketch.  Pam Locker, a Principle Teaching Fellow and lecturer on the Design for Exhibitions and Museums degree, had produced (with her colleagues) ten, good quality videos on learning how to sketch and wanted to make them widely [...]
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Open Education: Talis Incubator Proposal

By Joss Winn | Published: October 4, 2009
Back in May, I woke up with an idea in my head which, in a slightly modified form, I’d now like to try and find funding for.1 The idea is based on work we’re doing on our JISCPress project, which itself is based on work Tony and I have been doing with WriteToReply since February. [...]
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