Share and share alike! - First national meeting for HEA Accredited PG...
As part of the Accredited Clinical Teaching Open Resources (ACTOR) project, this first national meeting of a proposed special interest group (or community of practice) for HEA Accredited PG Certificate...
View ArticleOpening up the share and share alike workshop to all
The first workshop for the ACTOR project takes place on 1st March 2011, originally this was 'invitation only' to PG Cert Tutor/Leaders but from today it has been opened up for anyone to book on. See...
View ArticleNew funding from JISC
The JISC have released a grant call for (04/08) Learning and teaching innovation so I thought it was worth blogging in case anyone wanted to bid. They say:'Projects and activities must fit with the...
View ArticleWikivet secure funding for open publishing
The WikiVet consortium has just secured £93,000 in funding from the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) to support the creation of further resources on the WikiVet site. The Opening Veterinary...
View ArticleACTOR dissemination
Just a quick update to say that"We are getting the message out there!"Last week I presented the ACTOR project to attendees at OER 11 as part of a symposium entitled "Stars and fast cars: walking the...
View ArticleNeglecting the blog
Phewf!It's been 'all go' at MEDEV recently and it has just crossed my mind that I have been neglecting the blog so here's a quick update on some dissemination and other things I've been doing:OER11 -...
View Article3rd annual Veterinary Education Symposium
The dates have been confirmed for the Annual Veterinary Education Symposium which will take place at The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh on 12th-13th July 2012.Download the...
View ArticleFree coca-cola content (cc-by-nc-sa)
Just a post to say how impressed I am with the new Coca-Cola Content Factory. It's not often you see a huge corporation offer assets for download via [CC BY-NC-SA] licensing. They offer extremely high...
View ArticleTwitter for academics
The lovely Anne-Marie Cunningham (on Twitter = @amcunningham) has just brought this to my attention on Twitter - it's dated in June so, clearly, I missed it the first time around!This is a charmingly...
View ArticleVUE: Virtual University of Edinburgh
A very short post to say how impressed I am with Edinburgh's use of Second Life. I had heard about the 'virtual' EasterBush (the vet school) but I did not realise the University was holding virtual...
View ArticleOVAL dissemination and OVAM launch - my notes
For those who could not make this event, it was an opportunity to showcase the achievements of the JISC-funded Opening Veterinary Access to Literature (OVAL) project. It was also (during the...
View ArticleSweet anatomy
Happy New Year everyone!Just returned (today) from my annual shopping trip to Florence so am now 'adjusting' and trying to get back into the swing of things since the Christmas break.A visit to the...
View ArticleACTOR project outputs available on the web
Just a note to say that all of the ACTOR outputs are on the MEDEV website:OutcomesInstitutional changes Video case studiesFinal reportMy thanks to all of the project partners and to the ACTOR community...
View ArticleStephen Downes on social media
This is a very interesting post by Stephen Downes on his "Half an Hour" blog - he takes half an hour a day to post to this blog which runs alongside his main website at http://www.downes.ca/Stephen was...
View ArticleCopyright process for video clips and clip art
Suzanne and I recently ran a workshop for CETL4HealthNE at Teesside University. Although we received great feedback after the workshop, we were asked 2 questions on the evaluation feedback sheets...
View ArticleOER cartoon
One of the things I observed while project managing the ACTOR project was that clinical teachers involved in the project had no time to talk about creation of teaching materials let alone find the time...
View ArticleRidden horses behaviour project and resource
Nia Huws (VETNET) previously ask for participants for a Ridden Horse Behaviour project from which they gathered huge amounts of data that will take some time to analyse and the results will be reported...
View ArticleInTech: Open access book project
I am most flattered to have been asked to write a chapter for a book on veterinary medicine. For those of you who know me well, you know that I am not a vet, I am an educationalist who happens to work...
View ArticleBack to work!
Afternoon!I've been absent from MEDEV for 10 weeks (after surgery) so am trying to catch up with everything that's happened while I've been away. Rather than 20 posts of "stuff", here's a summary of...
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