Collaboration

This chapter begins by discussing the characteristics of social and participatory media and considers their implications for learning, teaching and research. The notion of openness is then considered and different facets of open practices across learning, teaching and research are considered.

Presentation by Tessa Welch to Unisa on 28 March 2012.

A keynote address by C Ngugi at the Open Learning Conference 2009 in Nottingham, UK, November 2009. The focus of this address was that OER presents an opportunity to overhaul how we think about & practice higher education

Partly because the development of open educational resources (OER) is a relatively new field that is just now receiving more widespread attention and study, there have been few opportunities to share knowledge across program, organizational and national bo

Numerous studies have found that people form relationships or communities through informal networks based on their common backgrounds or where they are located. The word community has become very popular, with every group sharing an interest on a website t

This is a series of blogs on Communities of Practice written by Nancy White a regular keynote speaker on the conference circuit and expert practitioner. The blogs are fun, but give a really good idea of setting up and managing CoPs.

A virtual Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals who share a domain of interest about which they communicate online. The practitioners share resources (for example experiences, problems and solutions, tools, methodologies). Such communicat