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Mapping and Sharing

Posted in Astronomy, Australia, Communication, Open Access, tagged , , on 26 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »

On Monday 25 May the Australian National University (ANU) announced the opening of the Sky Mapper telescope at Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in New South Wales. The telescope will be operated by ANU researchers at Canberra’s Mount Stromlo Observatory (the telescope is 700 kilometres from Mt Stromlo, but 1 gigabyte of data will be [...]

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Erica McWilliam: The 21st Century Teacher: From Sage to Guide to Meddler

Posted in Australia, Communication, Digital media, Instructional Design, Networks, Teaching and Learning, tagged , , , on 14 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Erica McWilliam visited the University of Canberra this week (13 May) as part of the ACE on the Road program. The topic for her talk was The 21st Century Teacher: From Sage to Guide to Meddler. This post was written live at the talk.
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This is Erica’s Eduspaces profile and this is her blog [...]

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Uma Kanjilal: OER Movement in India: Major Initiatives and Challenges

Posted in Communication, Creative Commons, Digital media, India, Instructional Design, Metadata, Networks, Open Access, Teaching and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 12 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Professor Uma Kanjilal was a visitor to the University of Canberra today (12 May 2009). She will be at the University for two days and is making a number of presentations. Her first presentation, the subject of this blog post, was a discussion of the Open Educational Resource Movement in India.
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Global Villages, Connection Generation, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Posted in CCK08, Communication, Digital media, Networks, Public Sphere, Twitter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 9 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The drive from my home to the University of Canberra gives me the luxury of listening to some great radio programs on Radio National and Classic FM. The journey takes eighty minutes and so by the time I arrive at the University or home on the return journey I have had the opportunity to listen [...]

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090507 Public Sphere Discussions, Canberra

Posted in Australia, Communication, Digital media, Institute 4.0, Networks, Public Sphere, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 6 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »

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I was alerted by Michael de Percy to the Public Sphere discussions to be held in Canberra on 7 May. Pia Waugh (Policy Adviser to Senator Kate Lundy) has worked very hard to develop this program.
The schedule is:
0900 Introduction and comments – Senator Lundy
0910 The ‘unexplored country’ we will be entering with [...]

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