Category: Reflection
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Foothill Technology Conference 2013
Last week I was in Northern California attending the Foothill College in partnership with Innovative Educators 2nd Annual Tech Conference. I was only able to attend the first day as I was speaking at the San Jose Open Access Unconference the following day. It was mostly keynote presentations, so here are my notes…
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Rob's Report from Educause #edu13
I’ve spent the last few days here in Anaheim (a stone’s throw from Disneyland) at the annual Educause conference. It’s my first time here and I’ve found a few things that were surprising or of note. The first thing to say is that this is a very well organised and…
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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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FutureLearn & the role of MOOCs
<Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3448372653/> This post reblogged from: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2013/09/futurelearn-the-role-of-moocs.html If you’re working in higher ed in the UK you will no doubt have seen that FutureLearn had its beta launch last week. Some disclosure – FutureLearn is owned by the OU & I’ve been partially involved in its development, so I’m probably not a…
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'Through a glass darkly' Part 3: OER, critical reflection and educators' improved practice – some early evidence
Do OER prompt critical reflection by educators who use them, resulting in improved practice? Part 3 of my blog series on reflection moves from abstract theorisation to concrete evidence around OER Research Hub (OERRH) hypothesis E, which raises this very question. JISC (2013) suggest that the use of OER ‘encourages open educational…
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Motivation for Informal Learners
Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the way in developing the infrastructure to support earning and displaying badges. We are likely to see first the wider implementation of badging pilots along with other forms of alternative credentialing. The promise of badges remains great but whether they will be accepted as valid…
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Snapshot: OER Policy
OER Policies are typically established in order to drive change, and there are now clear examples of where policy is being used as an instrument to drive OER. The Creative Commons OER Policy Registry lists 40 policies which reflect the ways in which policies supportive of OER and open access have…
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MOOC Evaluation & Disruptive Technologies
The OLDS MOOC (Open Learning Design Studio MOOC) evaluation report by Simon Cross has just been published and I thought it was worth a quick look. OLDS MOOC, based at The Open University, was a learning design MOOC that ran between January and March 2013. The course was structured to…
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SPARCing debate on Open Access
As part of our field work in Washington DC last month I met with Heather Joseph who is Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a membership organization of academic and research libraries. Their mission is to make libraries and the information they hold more equitable…
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"O" is for… Open?
…Or could it be “Orioles”?! Seriously though, besides checking out my first baseball game, the time in Baltimore to date has been a great opportunity for follow-up research and has generated some interesting data about Bridge to Success post-project. Whilst my colleague Rob has been working largely in the DC…