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Cable Green - OER15 Keynote
Cable talked about how to move from policy to implementation for Open Education.
Panel Session - OER15
A panel discussion around policy for OER around the world.
Teresa Mackinnon - OER15
Issues in creating and using video resources for language teaching.
Paul Bacsich - OER15
Policy development to support OER in Wales
Nicole Allen - OER15
Open Government Partnership as a platform for advancing Open Education policy
Josie Fraser - OER15 Keynote
Josie Fraser’s keynote was about the reality of making Open Education happen.
Sheila MacNeill - OER15 Keynote
Sheila’s keynote was about ‘Openwashing’ and Open Practitioners.
The Cost of Not Going Open - OER15
The cost of not going open! - public session
Lightning talks - OER15
Two short papers - OER in schools and FE/skills
Lightning Talks - OER15
A short paper and two lightning talks.
Martin Weller - OER15 Keynote
Martin talked about how OER community need to take control of the narrative, to challenge different versions of history around Open.
Left Hand of Darkness
Recently read ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ by Ursula LeGuin, and frustrated with the amount of books I’ve read and enjoyed that have subsequently evaporated from my memory, I decided to sketchnote a summary of what I remembered immediately having finished convinced that it will ‘fix’ it more permanently.
Process Improvement Training Sketchnotes
Sketchnotes from a ‘Process Improvement Training’ workshop.
Jeannel King - Draw Forth the Book Inside you
Synchronicity is cool - was just thinking about how to write this book that i’ve started, and along came this brill google hangout.
dhh-railsconf2014
We all got some homework to watch this keynote on writing good software. It was enjoyable and thought provoking. Been a while since I’ve done a youtube video - the opportunity to pause (but not too often) makes it a little more relaxing.
Ollie Wells - What has User Experience ever done for us?
Nice examples of product design illustrating user experiences. Also liked the distinction of customer/user experience.
Gavin Davies - Hollywood On Demand
Loved the quote Treat servers like cattle not pets
Craig Marvelly - Gene Simmons and the path to good product design
Working at Bipsync Craig talked us through his process, with some nice ideas and tools including Papertrail, Slack and New Relic
Benjy Stanton - Responsive HTML Email
Benjy gave out some handy links too.
Austin Walters - Finding your web design Niche and Generating Leads there
Enjoyed Austin’s storytelling approach, and the little discussed (for me at least) nitty gritty of the business of web design.