In our latest podcast I talk with Steve Carson, External Relations Director for MIT OpenCourseWare and the first President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. We talk about the evolution of MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, and the work of the newly independent OpenCourseWare Consortium.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Creative Commons
• Disrupting Class and my podcast with the authors
• Emerson College
• iTunes U
• MIT
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Open Educational Resources
• OpenLearn
• Open University

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Monday 15 September, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.

In our latest podcast I talk with Martin Weller, newly named as Director of the Open University’s ambitious SocialLearn Project. We talk about the role of ‘Web 2.0′ technologies in Higher Education, before turning to a discussion of the Open University’s ambitions for SocialLearn.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 43 Things
• Cloudworks
• Disrupting Class, and my podcast with the authors
• Stephen Downes
• eduGlu
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• HEFCE
• Brian Kelly
• Learning Object
• OpenLearn
• Open University
• School of Everything
• George Siemens
• Slideshare
• SocialLearn
• Sun Microsystems
• UK e-University Project review

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 12 September, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.

In our latest podcast I talk with Herbert van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. We discuss Herbert’s pivotal role in the development of SFX and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), before turning to a broader discussion of issues related to the use of repositories in preserving and providing access to scholarly literature and data.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• American Chemical Society
• arxiv
• British Library
• Cornell University
• Creative Commons
• Crossref
• DOI
• Dspace
• EBSCO
• Elsevier
• Ex Libris
• Fedora
• Flickr
• Freebase
• Ghent University Library
• Grey Literature
• Stevan Harnad
• Pete Johnston and Andy Powell podcast
• Kevin Kelly’s TED Talk
• Library of Congress
• Linked Data
• MySpace
• NISO
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI ORE)
• OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• OpenURL
• Pathways Project
• RDF
• SilverPlatter
• SFX
• YouTube

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 3 September, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.

In our latest podcast I talk with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson, authors of the recently published Disrupting Class alongside Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen. We discuss the concept of disruptive innovation, and its application to US compulsory education as described in the book.

In the second half of the call, we move beyond the topics covered in the book itself, and consider the state of Higher Education through this lens of disruptive innovation. Apparently radical developments within the sector such as iTunesU and OpenCourseWare may not be as disruptive as they first appear, and large swathes of the sector have no room for complacency.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Dayton Hudson/ Target
• Disrupting Class (and my initial blog post discussing it)
• ‘Disrupting Higher Education‘ blog post on the Xiphos blog
• Education|Evolving
• Florida Virtual School
• Innosight Institute
• Innovator’s Dilemma
• Innovator’s Solution
• iTunesU
• MotorolaU
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• SmartThinking
• Tiffin University
• University of Phoenix
• Virtual ChemLab

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Monday 18 August, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

In our latest podcast, I talk with Pete Johnston and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation. We build upon themes that they have been discussing elsewhere, and explore their views on the current state of (institutional and other) Repositories.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• arXiv
• ATHENS
• CHEST
• Jim Downing’s blog
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Eduserv
• Eduserv Foundation
• eFoundations blog
• Elsevier
• FRBR
• JISC
• JISC Repositories Conference
• Brewster Kahle
• Linked Data
• MLA
• Nature Network
• Nature Publishing Group
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE)
• OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH)
• Andy Powell’s VALA Presentation and eFoundations blog post
• ‘Andy Powell is spot on‘ post to Panlibus blog
• Slideshare
• Ed Summers’ blog
• SWAP profile
• SWORD
• UKOLN
• VALA Conference

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 26 March, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

In our latest podcast I talk with Larry Johnson, Alan Levine and Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. We discuss the 2008 edition of their Horizon Report, exploring both their methods and the wide-ranging implications for Higher Education of their findings.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Delphi method
• Doodle
• Gartner
• Horizon.museum
• The Horizon Report, 2008
• Horizon Project wiki
• New Media Consortium
• NMC Symposium on Mashups, April 1-3 2008.
• Ning
• Pachyderm
• xobni

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 26 March, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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