{"id":37,"date":"2008-10-25T21:46:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-10-25T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T05:46:21","slug":"freelearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"FreeLearning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/3\/4356950_c268fd52e3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Open Sign\" align=\"left\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spent a great day last Friday in Vancouver talking open content, loosely coupled strategies, copyright concerns, among other issues at the BCCampus Learning Content Strategies conference in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>While being a fantastic opportunity to network with other edtech-involved designers and managers working with BC post-secondary institutions I also gathered some insight into a number of innovative technical and organizational methods being employed in the province. Some methods I will most definitely be bringing back to my shop are the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca\/brian\/archives\/046602.php\" target=\"_blank\">MediaWiki embed technique<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucalgaryblogs.ca\/2008\/09\/09\/embedding-a-wiki-page-in-a-blog-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Wiki Ink plugin<\/a>, a curiosity in the potential application of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/contribute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Contribute<\/a> as a version control method for colalborative content development, and a demo of a freshly minted <a href=\"http:\/\/buddypress.org\/\" title=\"BuddyPress\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new tools emerged <a href=\"http:\/\/freelearning.bccampus.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">FreeLearning.org<\/a> &#8211; a BCCampus sponsored federated search engine that models how open tools can be leveraged to knit together a very useful, flexible, extensible resource.<\/p>\n<p>Conference notes and links to resources can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/solr.bccampus.ca\/wiki\/index.php\/Content_Strategies_Final_program\" target=\"_blank\">conference wiki<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a great day last Friday in Vancouver talking open content, loosely coupled strategies, copyright concerns, among other issues at the BCCampus Learning Content Strategies conference in Vancouver. While being a fantastic opportunity to network with other edtech-involved designers and managers working with BC post-secondary institutions I also gathered some insight into a number of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-oer","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}