Category: Dissemination
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s International Conference Centre, the venue for the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), to enter a huge auditorium over which presides a long ‘high table’ for the distinguished guests, backed by sparkling…
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I teach, therefore I reflect (and change)
During the few weeks ahead of OpenEd13, in preparation for my talk, I spent time interviewing K12 teachers in the US about their use of open educational resources (OER) in the classroom. As part of my work with the OER Research Hub Project I’m researching the hypothesis that OER use leads educators to critically…
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Open solutions to a 'national crisis': The impact of OER on teacher education in India
Here are the slides for my Open Ed 2013 presentation. If you have any questions or feedback please use the comments below or tweet me via @laperryman. Open solutions to a national crisis: The impact of OER on teacher education in India
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The lofty heights of open: EADTU conference 2013, Paris
Dinner in the Eiffel Tower restaurant may have been the physical high point of three days recently spent in Paris attending the 2013 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) conference. However, the academic high point of the conference was gaining a bird’s-eye view of the development of open education across…
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Flipped Learning in the UK – Two Examples
A BLOG POST BY KARI ARFSTROM PhD, Executive Director of the Flipped Learning Network As a Fellow of the OER Research Hub Project at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, I had the incredible opportunity to visit for two weeks in September, 2013. The Project and Fellowship program is supported…
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What Makes Openness Work?
Here are our slides from today’s project presentation at the Institute of Educational Technology. A podcast for the event can be accessed here: http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/iet-public/20130718T112336_oer_tcm20130717.m4v There is also a Cloudworks page for the event which includes more detailed slides on TrackOER. What Makes Openness Work?