Sharing Nicely » mozopened http://sharing-nicely.net Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:19:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Interested in designing the open education platform of the future? http://sharing-nicely.net/2009/03/interested-in-designing-the-open-education-platform-of-the-future/ http://sharing-nicely.net/2009/03/interested-in-designing-the-open-education-platform-of-the-future/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:05:37 +0000 Philipp http://bokaap.net/p2pu/interested-in-designing-the-open-education-platform-of-the-future/ We just opened sign-up for the Mozilla/Creative Commons/P2PU course on open education prototyping, and already more than 20 people have signed up. Great!

Course participants will be working on individual prototypes for open education projects. For those that want to take their ideas a step further, there might be a good opportunity to get funding from JISC.

In the context of P2PU, we have lots of ideas for innovative tech projects. If anyone is interested in pitching an idea together – please get in touch!

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/03/309ricall.aspx

JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for grants to fund technical rapid innovation projects addressing priority areas.

Proposals are sought under the following priority areas:

   * Mashups of open data
   * Aggregating tags and feeds
   * Semantic web/ linked data
   * Data search
   * Visualisation
   * Personalisation
   * Mobile Technologies
   * Lightweight Shared Infrastructure Services
   * User Interface Design

Bids for projects dealing with other areas that are relevant to the Information Environment are also welcomed.

Funding of between £15,000 – £40,000 for 6 month projects for up to 30 projects is available

The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon on Wednesday 22 April 2009.

Funding is available for projects starting in early-mid June 2009 for 6 months. All projects must be complete by 30 November 2009.

]]> http://sharing-nicely.net/2009/03/interested-in-designing-the-open-education-platform-of-the-future/feed/ 1 Kicking off the Mozilla Open Education course http://sharing-nicely.net/2009/03/kicking-off-the-mozilla-open-education-course/ http://sharing-nicely.net/2009/03/kicking-off-the-mozilla-open-education-course/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:33:02 +0000 Philipp http://bokaap.net/open-edu/kicking-off-the-mozilla-open-education-course/ We just sent out the announcement for an upcoming hands-on Mozilla course on open education. It’s organised by our friends from the Mozilla Foundation, with (some more friends) from ccLearn – and covers open licensing, open tech, and open pedagogy in a snappy 6 week package.

There are case-studies, prototyping, web-seminars and we are looking to discuss lots of innovative new ideas. The announcement is on the course wiki here.

From the P2PU perspective this course comes at the perfect time. One of the biggest challenges for us has been to find a technology platform that is light-weight, does not need major tweaking, keeps up with new developments by letting us plug web 2.0 services into it, and supports open standards. So, one goal for us is to get more ideas from the course, on how to set up a volunteer-run open online university. Piece of cake, right?

Anyway, have a look around the course wiki to see if the course is interesting for you – and consider signing up. Space is limited and first come first serve!

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