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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Apologies for cross posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This event on Wednesday next week at 12.15 in Pope C15 may be of interest to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>An interesting video about how Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong of Duke University in the US (who will be speaking via Skype) creates videos for the course he teaches via Coursera may be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://today.duke.edu/2012/10/teachingcoursera">http://today.duke.edu/2012/10/teachingcoursera</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sally<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Beggan Andy <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 January 2013 09:36<br><b>Subject:</b> Elearning community Wed 6th February - Open Learning and MOOCs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>SUBJECT: Elearning community Wed 6th February - Open Learning and MOOCs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The February e-Learning Community lunchtime seminar will be about Open Learning and MOOCs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Open learning and MOOC are the buzzwords of the year. Find out more this February!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Steve Stapleton will talk about the Paris Project <a href="http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/category/paris/">http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/category/paris/</a> and some of the resources, particularly on sustainability, that have been produced and have won awards. This will interest those who attended the December eLearning Community session and heard a bit about how the resources were turned into eBooks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sally Hanford and Helen Whitehead will talk about their experiences as students in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). What is a MOOC? <a href="http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2013/01/03/what-is-a-mooc/">http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2013/01/03/what-is-a-mooc/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We will be joined via Skype by <b>Walter Sinnott-Armstrong</b> of <b>Duke University</b> in the US who teaches the "Think Again: How to Reason and Argue" MOOC course via Coursera: <a href="http://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain">http://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Date: <b>Wednesday, February 6th, 2013</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Time: <b>12.30</b> (hot drinks from 12.15)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Location<b>: C15, Pope Building, University Park<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To be sure we have enough tea and coffee, please e-mail <a href="mailto:is-learning-team@nottingham.ac.uk">is-learning-team@nottingham.ac.uk</a> if you intend to be present.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Andy Beggan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Head of Learning Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/">Learning Technology Blog</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx">About Open Nottingham</a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>