Incentivizing OER adoption with course development mini-grants

Diffusion and adoption of OER

This paper provides insight into how to improve the diffusion of OER through (formal) institutional networks. It does so by examining two cases: (1) MORIL – the Multilingual Open Resources for Independent Learning task force, a Network of Practice that acted as a space for sharing and developing institutional OER strategies, and (2) TESSA – The Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa programme,...

Removing the Barriers to Adoption of Social OER Environments

Despite the opportunities and benefits of OER, research and practice has shown how the OER repositories have a hard time in reaching an active user-base. The opportunities of experience exchange and simple feedback mechanisms of social software have been realized for improving the situation and many are basing or transforming their OER offerings towards socially powered environments. Research o...

Mini-course on Metastability

Metastability is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, with examples coming from physics, chemistry, biology, climatology and economics. The objects of interest are systems that make transitions between “metastable states”, i.e., quasi-equilibria that appear to be equilibria, but are not, and the stable state. Metastable behavior is characterized by a long period of apparent equilibrium of a pure ...

Biochemical changes associated with flower development in mini potted carnation

The present investigation was undertaken to determine the biochemical changes associated with flower development during the flowering season in the potted carnation cultivars of ‘Lilac on purple’ and ‘Pink’. Ethylene production and the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) content of the flowers were observed to increase up to stage 5 (during the five stage of flow...

Mini-course on random graphs