Open Pedagogy – what IS it?
Trying to get my head around Open Pedagogy. From David Wiley, What is Open Pedagogy? the assignment is impossible without the permissions granted by open licenses. This is the ultimate test… Read more »
Category: open
MOOC, alors
Earlier this week, I said to someone, “I’m so over MOOCS…”. Having participated in a couple in 2008-9 (they were okay, actually I took some comfort in the lack of… Read more »
Should everything be Open?
I am lucky to be involved with the steering committee for ETUG – it’s a fantastic team of 15 diverse, dedicated, fun ed tech professionals who volunteer loads of time… Read more »
Open vs. Transparent + Risk-taking
This week, George provides some useful context for our thinking around openness – he says: Openness is most often related to content. Transparency, in contrast, involves making our learning explicit… Read more »
Openness: Why DO people contribute to the network?
In his talk on Empowering Professional Opennes Through Groups, Networks & Collectives, Terry Anderson (at about 22:30 min in) talks about why people contribute to networks, citing research that asked… Read more »
On Openness: Early Reflections/First Impressions
Philosophically, I’m totally sold. Openness (openly sharing work, ideas, etc) is good, and can be great (just ask anyone featured in Alan Levine’s Amazing Stories of Openness – really fun… Read more »
Risk taking & vulnerability in open courses – get over it?
Today in an Elluminate session there was some discussion about how people feel about putting themselves out there in open courses. Great topic! One possible response I’ve heard (I don’t’… Read more »
Instructional UN-designers unite?
So the idea of Instructional Un-design seems to be one some/many of us are kicking around. I really appreciated Plain_Gillian & Robert’s follow up comments, and it gave me an… Read more »
Constructivism vs. Connectivism
We are spending a lot of time exploring this, and I’m glad – many of us are grappling with figuring out what the diff is. I guess it’s because constructivism … Read more »