I just submitted three abstracts for the OER15 Conference 14 – 15th April 2015. It started as one but I realized that there are really three distinct pieces of work that could be of benefit. I don’t expect all three to be accepted but here are the abstracts for anyone …
Last week, I attended an ELESIG workshop at the OU run by Martin Weller and Tony Hirst. Here are some summaries of what was discussed. However, it struck me that many people would not know how to start. Sure, there are lots of free blogging platforms, but if you want …
Why on earth am I writing about MOOCs again? I’m not sure why I have this instinct to defend MOOCs. I am generally the last person to be instinctively bullish on purely technological innovations in education even if I tend to be one of the first people to try them …
Note: This is an expanded version of a comment on this post on EdSurge. Other people have also commented here, here and here. Note 2: When I first started thinking about this post, I had this title in my head but decided it wasn’t quite appropriate “You’d have to be …
Warning: This post ended up being a lot more “negative” and critical than it started out as. I am still quite enjoying the EdStartUp course. Entrepreneurship and #EdStartup 101 A new MOOC is going on at the moment aimed at educating educators in starting companies (mostly online ones) to implement …
Note on the title: I was pretty miffed when I started writing this post. And the title was the first thing that came to my mind. But as I was writing, much of the initial anger dissipated but I still like the title. So I added a questionmark to the …
This is my introduction to the other participants on the #EdStartUp MOOC. My main interest in taking the course is to explore ways of squaring up the demands of a sustainable business or other funding model with openness. My key question is how can we run open courses with open …
Mind map Inspired by a Tweet and related to my post on What is and what is not a MOOC, I decided to make a little concept map to put a few things in context of each other. Download and remix policy: Do it! You can download the map file from …
This is a long post. What can I say? The MOOC made me do it! When 90% drop-out rate is less than a 10% drop-out rate One of the foundations of the, I think largely unfounded, criticisms of the MOOC is the high drop out rate. But I think this …
This post is part of the MOOC MOOC course of work. It outlines my journey (now lasting over a year) towards adopting elements of a MOOC in the Inclusive Technologies for Reading (#ITR12) course pilot starting this September. This not a description of the process, more a reflection towards the …