NOVA Focus Group: Initial Thoughts
On Friday I visited Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) to run an OER focus group with instructional designers and teachers. We'll [...]
Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota
Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota where Bea de los Arcos and I are at FlipCon13 - the annual conference for the [...]
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known: nine surveys for OER research
Photo credit: Carl Jones CC-BY-NC-ND via Compfight Astronomer and writer Dr Carl Sagan is probably mis-credited as saying that 'somewhere, something incredible [...]
'Through a glass darkly' Part 2: reflection and the agile researcher
Photo credit: Lotte Grønkjær CC-BY-NC-SA via Compfight In Plato’s dialogue Theaetetus (173-174), Socrates talks about the philosopher whose mind is [...]
An Agile Hypothesis Sprint: what do we know about learner performance?
OER Research Hub team away day (June 2013) The structure for the research for OER Reserach Hub is [...]
#oer13 liveblog – Policy Recommendations
Darco Jansen (Programme manager, EADTU) spoke about policies affecting OER use in higher education, questioning whether higher education has ever [...]
Critiques of Open Education
I'm at #oer13 today and tomorrow and I've been doing a bit of live-blogging and monitoring Twitter activity. A pretty [...]
About flipped learning
Picture this: you are a Chemistry teacher in a school in Colorado; it’s Friday and you give kids a test; [...]