2011 Archived Webcasts

Panel on Moving to Open Educational Resources at Athabasca University

Ives, Cindy; Carter, Lisa; Tin, Tony; Elliott, Colin (2011-10-27)

Dr. Cindy Ives, Director of the Centre for Learning Design and Development (CLDD) at Athabasca University, discusses recent projects in the CLDD that have focused on open educational resources including initiatives to ...
Making Sense of Complexity in Open Information Environments

Siemens, George (2011-10-27)

In the pursuit of openness, the cognitive experience of the learners and educators are often overlooked. Open educational resources present fragmented views of topics: a TedTalk video here, an Open Yale lecture there, an ...
Post Secondary Leadership and the OER Movement

Pannekoek, Frits (2011-10-27)

ER provide both opportunity and anxiety to University Administrators. While they see possible savings, at the same time they see new expenditures without accompanying revenues. Little understanding exists by either ...
Fun and Fear in Open Spaces

Anderson, Terry; Dron, Jon (2011-10-27)

This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ...