OER and Samoa

I was supposed to be in Samoa of this week to take a WikiEducator workshop. Unfortunately I was missing one vital piece of information: I need to have more than six months left on my passport to be able to go to board the plane. I only found out this when I arrived at the

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Supporting a community online: the Platform

What are the minimum requirements for software to support a community? In some respects this will depend on the scale, and the engagement of the members, ther longevity desired, the traffic etc.

I’ve been thinking about this hard with the launch of Ako Aoteraroa. I think my irreducible minimum functionality would include these functions:

Admin

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WordPress Themes (revisited)

Tackling again the task of having a new theme here.But what I need probably requires more than I can manage.

Mimbo

A cool theme: but some complexities. A post at DarrenHoyt.com gives some background to using template tags and custom fields to pull out specific highlighted posts (with an image).  The instructions on his Blog

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“Flexible Learning” towards a definition

In general this term is strong in Austalasia.  But there is still a lack of consensus on it’s precise meaning, especially when linked with the terms elearning and blended learning.

Mike is the representative of the Academic Developers group on the Flexible Learning group at UCTL, and has often raised the issue suggesting we are

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