The ALT Open Education Special Interest Group is promoting three webinars on Open Education during November and December. The first takes place this Wednesday, 5 November. The webinars are open to all, and details are shown below.
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1. How to write an OER workshop (for staff development)
Wednesday 5th November 13.00 - 13.40
This workshop will look at how advocates of Open Education can use and reuse existing OER materials for training sessions cascading the OE message.
By exploring the huge variety of materials that exist, this webinar will demonstrate how your workshop can represent the OE agenda itself and act as an example of how reusing materials can be an effective and efficient choice when designing and creating learning activities.
Presenters: Alex Fenlon and Ella Mitchell
Link to webinar:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.EB5A1870DD4B812AC04FD7BDAD8E0F
2. Title: Creating and using video resources for language teaching.(Open Educational Practice)
Tuesday 25 Nov 13.00 - 13.40
The University of Warwick Language Centre and the Centre for Applied Linguistics are partners in an EU project called Video for All. The project's mission is to support language teachers in all sectors in the exploitation of video for teaching. The Language Centre has been innovating in the use of digital media for some time and is the subject of a Jisc Digital Media case study. Video for All will produce exemplar practices for teachers which are searchable and available as Open Educational Resources. However, challenges are evident. The presenter has recently co-authored a submission to the Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) for a special issue exploring "Models of Open Education in Higher Education". This webinar will discuss some of the issues we are dealing with in the hope that the OER sig will be able to contribute to our discussions and offer feedback on our decision making process.
Key words:
Streaming media; creative commons licensing; repositories; repurposing and remixing; copyright.
Teresa MacKinnon
LinkedIn Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresamac>
Principal Teaching Fellow,
School of Languages and Cultures
University of Warwick.
3. Creative Commons - understanding the basics (CC for Dummies)
Thursday December 11th 13.00 - 13.40
Creative Commons (CC) licences are a simple way of retaining copyright whilst allowing others to reuse your work. The range of licences lets you define how others can reuse your material. This session will demonstrate how simple it is to use CC licences and what they mean in practice.
We will also introduce the UK repository JORUM, demonstrating how to apply CC licences to materials as you deposit.
Presentation: Vivien Sieber and Siobhan Burke
Moderator: Alex Fenlon
Webinar link
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.4F5E50E2B182B1FEE046461D9A8CA6
TECHNICAL NOTE
Please note that the sessions will take place in Blackboard Collaborate.
Even if you are familiar with Blackboard, it is important that in advance you check that your system and connection are capable of handling a session, and that you have the (small) Blackboard Collaborate client successfully installed. Do this from the support page at http://www.elluminate.com/support/