{"id":436,"date":"2011-05-20T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/05\/20\/open-for-education\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:53:00","slug":"open-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/open-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Open for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a JISC event today, in the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/openforeducation.org\/\">Open for Education<\/a>. The event had a number of speakers and workshops around how education can use open source software.<\/p>\n<p>I throughly enjoyed the event. I was particularly impressed with the Google Docs and Facebook talks. Colin Maxwell, of Carnegie College, gave a very persuasive talk on how colleges can use Facebook as an alternative to the traditional VLE, pointing out how difficult it can be to get students to engage with a VLE and how easy it is to get them to use Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good event but was the last one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk\/\">JISC North &amp; East Scotland<\/a>, which closes in July. I&#8217;ve benefitted from many of their services and events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:klamb@rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk\">Contact Kenji Lamb<\/a> if you want to know more about this event or this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a JISC event today, in the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, entitled Open for Education. The event had a number of speakers and workshops around how education can use open source software. I throughly enjoyed the event. I was particularly impressed with the Google Docs and Facebook talks. Colin Maxwell, of Carnegie College, gave a very persuasive talk on how colleges can use Facebook as an alternative to the traditional VLE, pointing out how difficult it can be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}