Well FOS stands for flexible, open and social learning and I’m part of the co-facilitator team for a new 5-day open learning event developed by Chrissi Nerantzi and Sue Beckingham. We start tomorrow Monday 13th July to Friday 17th of July 2015. It is an an openly licensed learning event for educators working in higher education who are interested […] View Article
Originally posted on flexible - open - social learning:FOS means…? image source: http://timemanagementninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Secret-of-New-Ideas-1.jpg Hello! A warm welcome to FOS, a new open course for professionals in Higher Education who teach or support learning and are interested in learning with colleagues from around the world about flexible, open and social learning. We start on the… View Article
Open Education Week took place between the 9th and 13th March 2015. Tuesday 10th March 2015 As a community partner of eMundus I was delighted to be able to participate in a webinar to highlight some of the work that we have been undertaking at the OER Wales Cymru project with a particular focus on our […] View Article
I am so looking forward to some inspirational activities this week … its gonna be busy :) #openeducationwk http://www.openeducationweek.org/ Filed under: OER, Open Education Week View Article
Reflecting on the experience of the OU LIVE tutorial and breakout room discussion and using the questions provided as a prompt … ( Permission has also been kindly given by all those involved to refer to comments etc ) What were your experiences and feelings during the session? I enjoyed the whole experience of the […] View Article
I found this on Open Education Week last year – really useful stuff Filed under: OER Tagged: Creative Commons, Open Education Week View Article
Originally posted on Social Media for Learning:Diigo helps you to build your own personal library of resources that is saved in the cloud. This means it is accessible from any device wherever you are. With one click you can also share any of your saved resources with others. You may choose to create both… View Article
Originally posted on Online Learning Insights:nmc.org What’s on the horizon for education? What technologies and trends will drive changes in curriculum development and teaching in one, two or even three years? New Media Consortium’s latest Horizon Report (2015) written by an international team of educators, gives readers evidence and insights into how developments in education will (and are) influencing changes… View Article
Reflections on the webcast by John Seely Brown http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1063&s=31 Your work so far on H800 includes some individual reading, listening and perhaps viewing. Does Brown’s argument imply that this is less valuable than your group work? It is illogical for John Seely Brown to claim that study groups are the “best indicator for success” when […] View Article
https://learn2.open.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/1280125/mod_resource/content/1/UCL_Reading_research.pdf What follows starts with a quick exercise to focus your thinking about the Google Generation. Below are four statements about that generation. Two statements have been described as myths by the authors of the study from which the graph is taken: please try to identify those two statements. And, in your view, how accurate […] View Article
