Completed activities
Brief description of completed TOUCANS research activities with links to where you can find more info
15-18 April 2012: Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education.
- A pre-conference workshop held on 15 April 2012 with co-presenters Rory McGreal, Judith Murray and Sandra Wills (Unfortunately Graham Bell from NMIT. was not able to attend.) Growing the OERu: from seed to sapling to forest. See blog post
- A paper: The OER university: From Vision to Reality. Micro-abstract:
Diverse array of models and options under consideration for
implementation of OERu: findings from a SCORE fellowship study. See blog post and slides.
27-30 March 2012: Presentation at University of Leicester's annual Learning Futures Festival: Follow the sun (Recording will be available shortly)
6-7 Mar 2012:
Ran a series of three webinars in celebration of Open Education Week.
Presented: A birds-eye view of the OERu: some insights from the TOUCANS project
22 Feb 2012:
Presentation at New Models for Education and Training build on Open Educational Resources, a workshop hosted by the Open University (UK) and UNED (National Distance Education University, Spain) - an EADTU (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) initiative as part of theOpen Educational Innovation and Incubation project. Title of my presentation: The OER university: collaborating, innovating and educating.
9 Dec 2011:
Workshop on OERs and the OERu with academics from Kabul University at the University of Leicester.
23 Nov 2011: I gave a keynote presentation at Durban University of Technology's Annual E-Learning Festival. Title: "Open to sharing in higher education". See blog post.
9-10 Nov 2011: OERu Anchor Partner Meeting in Dunedin, New Zealand. I attended virtually. See blog post.
My input to the meeting was via this YouTube video:
![[The University of Leicester]](unilogo.gif)



