Links from George Siemens’ Presentation

George Siemens (Associate Director of the University of Manitoba Learning Technologies Centre) was on campus on March 11 to give a presentation at the Teaching & Learning Centre, on “The Social Technology Revolution – Tensions and Solutions”. He talked about a pretty wide range of things, and I wanted to capture some of the links he mentioned.

Video of the session

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General Links

• Presentation tool: “Personal Brain” – a visual concept mapping application.
• Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus – a network literacy hoax/demonstration site. Is it real? Is it fake? How can you tell?

Open CourseWare and Open Education Resources

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Open CourseWare Consortium
• Wiki Educator
• Wiki Books
• OER Commons
• Cable Green’s Washington Open Educational Resources

Peer Review and Accreditation

• Public Library of Science
• Wikipedia’s peer review process
• Peer 2 Peer University

Less “official” open-ish education-ish resources

• TED Talks
• Creative Commons images on Flickr
(ok – George didn’t talk about this, but I had to sneak it in anyway…)
• Textbook for Physical Oceanography Course – not “open” but freely available as a pdf, and can be printed by students for under $20, as opposed to $150 it would cost to buy the textbook.

Copyright

• Creative Commons

Images From the Presentation