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Open Education
OK, so I’m on a roll here, having just completed Edinburgh University’s Coursera EDCMOOC on e-Learning and Digital Cultures. I enjoyed participating in the open and online community that blew up around...
View ArticleOpenness in Education – a visual representation (updated)
Activity 3 in the Open Education mooc is to create a visual representation that defines “Openness in Education” by drawing on some of the concepts in Weller and Anderson. I chose to try a storywriting...
View ArticleOpenness in Education – a visual representation (take 2)
OK, I’m sorry it’s a bit hashy but I thought I’d try and make a video scribe thing using just the basics: camera, paper and pen, and iMovie. I’m actually quite pleased with how it turned out – like...
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Activity 4: Identifying priorities for research in Open Education
The activity “Imagine you are advising a funding organisation that wishes to promote activity and research in the area of open education. Set out the three main priorities they should address,...
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What is a Learning Object and how do you know it’s a good one?
Activity 5 of the h817open mooc is a reading of Stephen Downes’ 2001 paper, Learning Objects: Resources for distance education worldwide. Before I read this, I set out some thoughts from my own...
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Three key issues in OER
Activity 7 in the h817open mooc on Open Learning from the Open University asks us to read three articles from a suggested reading list and identify three key issues in Open Educational Resources (OER)...
View ArticleAn online course in digital skills
This post is about an imaginary digital skills course for teachers. It forms part of the assignments for the Open Learning MOOC, h817open, from the Open University, which I am following, along with...
View ArticleLicensing
Progressing in this mooc on Open Learning, the course now turns its attention to licensing by referring to David Wiley’s 4 R’s Framework: Reuse – the right to reuse the content in its unaltered /...
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The power of the individual
A teacher, relatively new to Social Media networks for professional development and education, posted this with a link to an interesting but not uncommon “test” of the power of Twitter: We’ve seen...
View ArticleNow is the time..
… to say “Goodbye” to the Open University MOOC, h817open. I’ve not been giving sufficient time and effort to participating in the community and course over the past couple of weeks and other priorities...
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