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Measuring Impact by Tracking Open Content in the Wild

By: Simon Knight
On: 3rd October 2012

How do we track the impact of data and documents once we’ve “let it out” into the wild for anyone to use, reuse, reappropriate, and open up for re-downloading? That’s the question I’m looking at this week, and that I’ve been thinking about for the last couple of days.
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Wikipedia in Education, and tracking how 'knowledge' is used...

By: Simon Knight
On: 16th September 2012

EduWiki Conference & the power of 'paradata'

Last week I went to the EduWiki conference in Leicester.

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Creative Commons, Open Government Licensing and PDFs

By: Simon Knight
On: 25th August 2012

Over the summer I’ve been working on a project the Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching (ORBIT) – an OER wiki hosting Teacher Education resources for Professional Development on interactive pedagogy, particularly using ICT. It’s still a work in progress prior to the project end in September, and to an extent it’ll still be in progress after that (although, to an extent we very much want it to be – it is a wiki after all!), but do give it a look. The site also hosts a few other teacher education Wikis (OER4School more >

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Innovations in Learning – Badges for accreditation

By: Simon Knight
On: 11th August 2012

The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology recently released a fantastic report – “Innovating Pedagogy 2012” (pdf) (Creative Commons licenced too). The report offers 10 innovations with the potential to change education in the short to medium term. It starts with a two page executive summary – so if you don’t read anything else, take a look at that!

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Coding for...the innately able

By: Simon Knight
On: 26th July 2012

Coding for…those who score highly on a test

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Coding for...the usual suspects

By: Simon Knight
On: 25th July 2012

Is coverage of new coding initiatives just reaching the same old suspects, or are we (and should we be) drawing in new people?

This is the question I want to look at now, following on from last week's blog which outlined some rough ideas about levels of activity in computer use.