Category: events
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Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota
Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota where Bea de los Arcos and I are at FlipCon13 – the annual conference for the Flipped Learning Network (FLN). The conference is being held at Stillwater Area High School. The Flipped Learning movement is growing at pace with over 500 physical attendees and 500 virtual…
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Good Morning, Baltimore!
Well our morning hasn’t been quite as melodic but it’s exciting to be waking up in Baltimore and looking forward to the next round of research data collection for OER Research Hub. Beck Pitt and I are here for an action packed week. Later today we are heading to Anne…
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An Agile Hypothesis Sprint: what do we know about learner performance?
The structure for the research for OER Reserach Hub is built around 11 hypotheses that we are testing through our work with collaborating organisations, fellowships and background studies. We are now at a stage where the collaborations are well underway and surveys are producing data and we want to bring…
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Connexions Conference 2013 and Sprint Days (Part II)
OK… things aren’t that bad! But I was sad to leave Houston after a great week with the Connexions conference team and attendees. Thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome and for taking time out to chat. I’ve been back in the UK for over a week now, so –…
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Connexions Conference and Sprint Days (Part I)
Tuesday’s Connexions conference (see here for the full programme) and the content and coding sprint days which followed were a fantastic experience: there was some great talks (both the keynote, Susan Badger, and the session on “Impact: Faculty and Student Perspectives” were particular highlights) with much discussion about what “next…
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Personalized Learning Workshop (Rice, 22 April 2013)
Pictures from yesterday’s workshop are available here.
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And We Have Lift Off!
Greetings from Houston! The First Personalized Learning Workshop at Rice University is underway… I’ve been tweeting from the conference (check out @Beck Pitt), but also wrote a blog post to cover the first of the morning sessions. So (better late than never) here goes… Remarking on the “personalized Houston weather”…
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#oer13 liveblog – Policy Recommendations
Darco Jansen (Programme manager, EADTU) spoke about policies affecting OER use in higher education, questioning whether higher education has ever really changed that much in response to policy innovation. The full title of his talk: “Policy recommendations in the transition to open and online education: business models, policy incentives and…
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#oer13 live blog – Keynote by Toni Pearce
Toni – who is the NUS Vice President (Further Education) – reported on 22 focus groups comprising 185 students which explored online use of OER. While many students made use of OER, it was much more common for them to be used when they were endorsed or required by their teachers. Students…
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Friday = an (un)official MOOC day
Last Friday (un)officially became a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) day after I got stuck into participating in and looking at the two MOOCs which I signed up for recently. The first is the OLDS-MOOC “Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum” which is a JISC funded MOOC, led by…