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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

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blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. I think the general move to openness - MOOCs, OERs, open access, digital scholarship, open data - all these things are part of a bigger picture. Read Martin''s blog, the EdTechie. Unported License.

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Great places, awesome people

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Here is the first part of my end of year retrospective on the top ten (actually eleven) places I visited in 2011, and the great people I met. I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with prolific Twitter activist Paulo Simoes for the first time, and also spent some time with charismatic OER guru Wayne Mackintosh.

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Four game changers

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It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. I spoke to Miguel Brechner after his well received keynote speech at ALT-C in Leeds this year.

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