Category: OERRH
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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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The Lobster Connection
Friday, May 3rd, 2013. I’m in Scarborough Middle School, Maine, US. A banner across the entrance hall reads ‘You Are Now Entering THE KINDNESS ZONE’, a caution for bullies to take a break, I’m told. I’m here with Sarah Morriseau from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to visit Mrs. B’s science…
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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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Webinars sobre REA – Projeto OER Research Hub | Diálogos sobre TIC & Educação
Giselle Ferreira blogs about our project [in Portuguese] at Diálogos sobre TIC & Educação, including details of our upcoming webinars… Webinars sobre REA – Projeto OER Research Hub | Diálogos sobre TIC & Educação.
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Beatus ille…
A quick Google-search on the benefits of OER for students will easily deliver a number of hits calling upon, for instance, their power to encourage more independent and flexible learning opportunities, and to facilitate exploration of materials ahead of enrolment, allowing learners to choose more wisely and also be better…
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Eyes Wide Shut: Measuring the Impact of Open
How do we define “openness” and what does “open” mean? Moreover, does it really matter if we cannot reach consensus on what “open” means? From David Wiley’s blog back in 2009 (“Open” is a continuous, not binary, construct. A door can be wide open, completely shut, or open part way…