Reuse in action
Having been involved in several research projects around the area of OERs (especially OpenSpires) and more specifically the reuse of existing content (Mosaic and Cascade), it is really gratifying to...
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Once again we are in the middle of our course launch period with nearly 40 courses launching over the next few weeks. Our new courses for this term are Shakespeare, Globalization (which I blogged...
View ArticleWoruldhord, Ancestral voices, the Great War and more.
One of the main conclusions from our Mosaic project (which developed an online course, ‘Ancestral voices: the earliest English literature’, primarily from pre-existing content and made it freely...
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It is that time of year again and we are in the middle of our online course launches for another term. We are offering 43 courses this term including our new courses in Writing Fiction for Young...
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Link curation at scale
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/465459020/ In our report OER: The value of reuse in education, we focused our attention on the reuse of online resources whether licensed or not . There was no...
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Garden history, biblical archeology and mysterious numbers.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Martin Heemskerck Course launches have just completed and over 1300 students have embarked on another term of online learning with us. This term we have launched 3 new...
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Churchill, Vikings and writing for teenagers
Not my predictions for the next wave in teen novels, but 3 of the courses that still have places for this upcoming term. We are just about to embark on our course launches for this...
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Investigating politics, microeconomics and the Victorians
Cartoon of a Victorian politician - who was surely interested in microeconomics. For once thought I would seize the chance to tell you about our new courses when there is still time to enroll on them....
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First world war archaeology maps to help the world…
…is my best attempt to link our four new online courses this term, we are nothing if not diverse. We are the in the middle of our course launch period once again, but there there still places in loads...
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New courses for 2013
Image :student laptop / zen Sutherland / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Next term we are launching five new courses in the online short course programme: Climate Change: Science, Leadership and Action, The Making...
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Social Anthropology and World Religions
This Michaelmas term (as well as offering well over 60 courses you have had a chance to study already) we launch two totally new courses, Social Anthropology: an introduction and Introduction to World...
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Glorious Art for the New Year
La station art nouveau de la porte Dauphine (Hector Guimard) This term I am really excited to let you know about two of our most gorgeous new courses ever, Art Nouveau Across Europe and The...
View ArticlePsychology and Modern Architecture
This term we are launch two great courses, Psychology: an introduction and Western Architecture: The Modern Era. Psychology is probably the most requested new online course topic for the Department so...
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Six new courses
This term see’s the most new courses we have launched for a long time with six new courses to stimulate and engage all lifelong learners out there. These range across the...
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New courses for 2015
Once again it is time for my termly new courses post and this time I am very excited about our new offerings: Animal Behaviour: An Introduction, Advanced Creative Writing, Inequality and Labour...
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From the first civilisation to a global perspective on people and society
Work found at https://flic.kr/p/dj3jzy /CC BY-ND 2.0 It is that time of the term where I blog about our new courses and this term I am particularly excited to share our two new courses for Trinity:...
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New courses for Autumn 2015
Our new courses for Michealmas 2015 are Ancient Egypt: An Introduction and Public Policy Economics two excellent additions to our portfolio. The first is possibly our most eagerly awaited Archaeology...
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