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Agriculture Competence
The AGRICOM project aims to establish the first Competence Model for the Agricultural Sector (ACM) in order to strengthen the transparency and comparability of VET opportunities at a European level.
AGRICOM (Transfer of the Water Competences Model to AGRIcultural COMpetences), a European Commission project, has as its goal to enhance the Vocational education and training situation by defining the skills and competences required for the different areas of work, workplaces and workers within the agricultural sector.
AlphaMOOC: Desarrollar un curso abierto masivo en línea con la participación de estudiantes de posgrado
El desarrollo de cursos en la educación superior suele implicar a una sola persona que trabaja para crear materiales que ella misma imparte posteriormente. Resulta menos común que los cursos sean el resultado de un trabajo en grupo.
La colaboración interdisciplinar de equipos de desarrolladores puede observarse en la creación de cursos en línea. Dichos equipos generalmente están formados por expertos en contenidos, técnicos y diseñadores pedagógicos, y cada uno se centra y persiste en su propio papel. Proponemos un modelo para el desarrollo en equipo de MOOC en el que los miembros del equipo asumen varios papeles. Este enfoque se puso en práctica en el desarrollo del curso Foundations of Science de la Universidad de Michigan, con un equipo cuyo núcleo estaba compuesto de 28 miembros, entre personal académico y estudiantes de posgrado. Al tener que abordar ámbitos que no formaban parte de sus áreas de especialidad, los desarrolladores debieron asumir el papel de principiantes y, de este modo, pudieron crear un MOOC que era accesible para estudiantes de distintos niveles.
Building an open social learning community around a DSpace repository on statistics
Learning Object Repositories (LORs) addressing content management and preservation have the positive collaterals of institutional positioning and dissemination, but their main benefit is the empowerment of interest-centred learning communities: the LOR provides the learner interaction with the LOs, but also with other learners and teachers.
“Building an open social learning community around a DSpace repository on statistics” was a conference delivered by Cesar Córcoles, Julià Minguillón and Brian Lamb at the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories, in Atlanta (USA) on May 2009. The text explains how the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has built a LOR combining DSpace with Delicious.
The Ed2.0Work project opens three Special Interests Groups
The project Ed2.0Work (European network for the integration of Web2.0 in education and work) is inviting stakeholders to join its recently created Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
Stakeholders include education administrators, teachers and university staff. From the world of work, the project welcomes the participation of companies, chambers of commerce, trainers, associations and government staff.
Three SIGs have already been opened, in order to encourage debate around:
- Web2.0 and Internet resources – how do we evaluate these tools and their uses
- Learning and training pedagogies – how do we teach and train using Web2.0
- Curriculum including criteria for excellence and quality – how do we build curricula for Web2.0 or integrate Web2.0 into existing ones
The Ed2.0Work project SIGs are open communities and are free to use. Click here to register and indicate your area or areas of interest.
Ed2.0Work is a transnational EU-funded project involving partners from the UK, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey. For more information you may visit this website.
Towards the creation of a world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives
Can the global OER community design a world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives and build it together? An international online conversation will take place from 12 – 30 November 2012 to explore this possibility.
The global Open Educational Resources movement reaches its ten years with more and more OER initiatives, in more and more countries. The vision of increasing access to the world’s knowledge through making resources open and accessible is beginning to be realized.
But there is still a problem: there is a lack of a comprehensive overview of OER projects in the world – how do I know what is going on in my own country? And how do I find contacts in other countries, or contacts working in my own language?
A map would give us the big picture of the global OER movement. It would help us communicate the story of OER. Furthermore, it could be enhanced with information such as OER initiatives by language, and with links to other maps. And it would help us connect.
An international conversation will take place from 12 – 30 November 2012, send an email to oer-community-request@athabascau.ca and type subscribe in the subject line.
For more information, click here.
MERMIG
MERMIG is a powerful, Web based collaboration platform which serves as a common working space for modern organisations. MERMIG was carefully designed to allow a community of users produce share and disseminate information, archive documents, organise interaction and meetings, structure business processes, etc. All is needed is an internet connection, a username and a password.