OpenCourseWare platform
If you are looking for the SlideWiki Authoring platform for OpenCourseWare, visit slidewiki.org.
PRESS RELEASE: SlideWiki Platform Release Webinar [Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST]
PRESS RELEASE: SlideWiki Platform Release Webinar Revolutionizing authoring, sharing and re-using of OER and OCW online Presentations have become indispensable in our everyday lives, whether at school, in college or at work. The SlideWiki project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 688095, started in 2016 with seventeen […]
WIN YOUR PRIZE! SLIDEWIKI OPENCOURSEWARE COMPETITION #OECWC2018
By organising this OpenCourseWare (OCW) Competition, the SlideWiki Consortium invites participants to create and import high-quality educational content in the SlideWiki platform. This educational content will have the form of slide presentations and will be directly related to secondary education, vocational and professional training, higher education and/or community-driven open-education with contributions from academics, teachers and learners with disabilities. Participants should create reusable, […]
SlideWiki Plenary meeting May 24-25 in Athens
All SlideWiki partners were present in the project’s plenary meeting in Athens, Greece on the 24th and 25th of May. The Work Package Leaders presented the progress achieved after the last plenary meeting in Leipzig. The technical partners showcased the new features of the platform and all the partners agreed on major decisions regarding the strategic […]
Content recommendation in SlideWiki at the 8th International Conference on Information Society and Technology, Kopaonik
At the 8th ICIST conference (http://www.eventiotic.com/eventiotic/conference/icist2018), held on Kopaonik, Serbia, March 11-14, 2018, our research paper entitled: “User-based collaborative filtering approach for content recommendation in OpenCourseWare platforms”, authored by Dr Nikola Tomasevic, MSc Dejan Paunovic and Prof. Dr Sanja Vranes from the “Mihajlo Pupin” Institute, was presented to the wider research community on the second […]
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Today is the 7th Global Accessibility Awareness Day when we encourage everyone to think about making their websites, apps and products accessible. Accessibility is not just about conforming to standards; it’s about improving the experience for people with disabilities and preferences. The SlideWiki project has set out to create an accessible and inclusive platform. We […]
SlideWiki: 27 How-To Tutorial #Videos
After popular demand, Ms. Darya Tarasowa (VuA), Mr. Viktor Kovtun (L3S Research center), Mr. Jens Kösters (TIB) and me, prepared a series of videos highlighting various functionalities of the SlideWiki Platform. The objective of this series of videos is to facilitate the SlideWiki users and all related stakeholders to use the platform smoothly, thereby enhancing product […]
Kick-off workshop for external trials at the Vytautas Magnus University
The Open University’s external trials to be conducted by the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Lithuania, have started on April 26th with a workshop hosted by VMU. Participants of the workshop were educators that will be using the SlideWiki platform for preparing and delivering their university lectures. The participating educators were introduced to the platform, created […]
The Open Education Global Conference 2018: Transforming Education Through Open Approaches
The Open Education Global Conference (OE Global) is where the global open education community meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and students from more […]
The l3s/LUH External SlideWiki Trials have officially started
The L3S Research Center at the Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) started SlideWiki’s external trials. The selected candidates will receive funding, guidance, technical support and mentoring from the SlideWiki Consortium members for the implementation of the large scale trials. The expected outcome is that feedback will be collected and educational material will be created and published on SlideWiki, maximising […]
SlideWiki @TIB’s Librarian Coordination Group
SlideWiki was presented today at executives from the Librarian Coordination Group of the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, University Library (TIB), that represented the operational management, leading the librarian tasks and being in direct contact with TIB’s users. The lecture consisted of demonstrating SlideWiki’s concept and goals, the importance of OER and OCW, […]