Tag Archives: open

Reading: Open Education

I’ve been meaning to spend a bit of time trying to better understand the open education movement of the 1970s and how it relates to contemporary developments in academia.  A useful summary of some key texts is over at infed.org … Continue reading

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OER13: Report & Slides

I’ve spent the last couple of days here in Nottingham at OER13, where I presented yesterday on the OERRH project and about some of the issues surrounding research synthesis.  Here are my slides: The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research … Continue reading

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What is Open Access?

I just had to share this video from PhD Comics.  A really neat introduction to the issues surrounding access to scientific literature…

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OERHub: Looking Forward

One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period.  I have a couple of … Continue reading

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Visual & Philosophical Pedagogy

Here are the slides from my presentation at the Third Visual Learning Conference.

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My #opened12 slides

Here are my slides for today’s presentation.  You can listen to the live audio at http://openedconference.org/2012/program/day-2/day2-1330-c485/.

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Live blogging #opened12

I’ve set up a Cloudworks cloudscape for http://openedconference.org/ at Open Education: Beyond Content (http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2437).  Feel free to follow events as they unfold there, join the discussion and help to archive conference!

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Growth of Distance Learning

Via Nerdgraph Infographics

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Vancouver bound?

Two papers (I think) accepted for Open Education 2012! Which is welcome news… full schedule isn’t up yet but it looks like being on day 3.

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Open Education as Bildung

Here are my slides for tomorrow’s presentation at  the What’s the use of philosophy of education? workshop at Liverpool Hope University. View more presentations from Robert Farrow.

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