Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, my thoughts are as many content providers as possible. Though the content on NLN seems a little closed, it may be that for Education, its open. The main thing is that content is common to all schools in the UK, and is free for them. They say on their site they are doing pilot studies with int

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
We can do the same with Commonwealth of Learning, http://www.col.org/colweb/site. OneVillage Foundation, a partner of Earth Treasury, has been in discussions with them about adapting their distance learning modules to computers. On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread forster
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a uniquely interesting site with content for the entire > > British curriculum that has been put into a format importable in all > > VLEs, with a concentration on Moodle. Thanks David for this link. Lots of g

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:33:59PM +0100, David Van Assche wrote: >This is a uniquely interesting site >available to any school in the UK at no cost. >available free to all authorised organisations in the post-16 sector, ...and then the site requir

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread Costello, Rob R
One does not seem to be able to sign up from outside the UK? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:iaep- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Van Assche > Sent: Monday, 3 November 2008 9:34 AM > To: iaep > Subject: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ -

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread David Van Assche
I have already imported some of the open university courses into the sugarlabs moodle, but the main issue is that the materials are not for school level. Also the objects here are all visual and audio based, being very useful as downloadable items for the XOs... but yes, their license leaves someth

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread Ewout ter Haar
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a uniquely interesting site with content for the entire > British curriculum that has been put into a format importable in all > VLEs, with a concentration on Moodle. I would suggest that OER materials are much m

[IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread David Van Assche
This is a uniquely interesting site with content for the entire British curriculum that has been put into a format importable in all VLEs, with a concentration on Moodle. They have over 1000 learning objects, all related to their curriculum and available to any school in the UK at no cost. They are