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I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER.

Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. Do a search on something like “instructional design”. Drill down a bit and there are some incredible resources.

• There were earlier attempts at consortia aimed at creating common content, but these have had different results. Can someone weigh in with what's happened around that? Particularly, what are some of the challenges there?
  
• Where does existing open content fit into workplace learning needs?
• What are some of the bigger challenges?
• What are the issues around rights with the materials and using it in different situations?

• Jeff - My Response to March's Big Question
• Open Content and the Workplace
• H0w Can Open Education Resources Deliver Value
• Open Content in Workplace Learning
• Kapp Notes: Why Open Content is Not Yet Adopted in the Workplace
• Clive on Learning: how can we leverage open content in workplace learning?

 I am a lesbian and I am out as a lesbian in my school, and in virtually all other places I inhabit. I am also an observant Jewish woman. I sit on the Board of Directors of my local shul (synagogue), Beth El Keser Israel, and Conservative Judaism, like the other major denominational branches of Judaism, has systematically removed the vestiges and structures of homophobia, finding them inimical to Jewish law, tradition, ethics, and belief. I am also fluent in biblical Hebrew, publish widely in biblical criticism, and am widely conversant in the bodies of rabbinic, philosophical, halachic (legal), Kabalistic, and historical literatures that inform and illuminate my teaching of the Hebrew Bible. I am, at last, an observant conservative Jewish lesbian—regarded as a respected Talmud Torah in my congregation who teaches at a public university.

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This ECAR research bulletin discusses how formal enterprise IT project management can be applied to IT projects when the scope, cost, and external controls put them into a different league from typical internal IT projects. The bulletin describes how the rigor of the formal project management structure can become a model for planning, approval, review, and cost control in similar large IT projects.

Citation for this Work: Pretz-Lawson, Mary L. “Formalizing Enterprise IT Project Management” (Research Bulletin 5, 2010). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2010, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

It’s spring break here and some of us are in a sort of summer mode — an opportune moment for levity. Today we feature humorous YouTube videos. They all relate to technology, so you have permission to watch them at work. [go ahead]