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Introduction to Open Education Resources in Life Sciences

November 12, 2010

We thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere at last night’s evening event for Life Sciences. Many of the teachers that came already knew each other either from previous work experience or from…

FHSST Editing Sprint Review

October 13, 2010

It came to pass recently that we (and by we I mean just short of 100 volunteers from all over the world!) edited the Free High Schools Science Texts (FHSST) textbooks in the space of 9 days. The…

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Invitation to prospective Siyavula OER content facilitators

August 6, 2010

Background Siyavula is a non-profit education initiative which originated within the Shuttleworth Foundation. It grew out of an earlier project by Mark Horner, the Shuttleworth Foundation fellow for…

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Crowdsourcing vs. Traditional Design: The Results

July 14, 2010

The idea of testing crowdsourcing against a more traditional design process came up last year (you can read about it here) and we decided to do an experiment as we needed new covers for the two sets…

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