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Open Education 20 Mar 2013 | 07:42 pm
Open Education can be about an open-road exploration of a subject area, employing peer support through some hand holding and discussion in various forums, and thriving on diversity. It is about mappin...
Research priorities relating to open education 20 Mar 2013 | 04:47 pm
For the Open University Open Learning Open Course (I have to type that, just because I like typing Open so often), H817, we have been asked to consider what priorities we would advise a funding organi...
Mapping ideas around Open Learning and Open Education 18 Mar 2013 | 08:20 pm
As a first step in getting to grips with the content of the Open Education course, I put together a map of some of the key concepts. It is a work-in-progress, but in the spirit of open practice and op...
H817 The OU course on Open Education - a MOOC a MOOC! 18 Mar 2013 | 05:48 pm
I will be taking part in the course on Open Education with the OU primarily for my own interest, but also because it happens to coincide with my area of work and my PhD. --> read more
On learning styles, Learning Styles, myths and debunkers 3 Oct 2012 | 03:40 pm
In much the same way that I think a lot of the criticism of the notiong of 'Digital Natives' is misinformed, I have once again run across the claims that "learning styles are a myth", that they have ...
Revisiting the jargon generator 21 Sep 2012 | 01:49 pm
A good while ago I had a play with the Educational Jargon Generator. Recently I've been suspicious that people are actually using it for producing reports, so I thought it was time to play again. I'...
Bloom Taxonomy Expanded, Flipped and then - networked... 20 Aug 2012 | 04:13 pm
Dr Justin Marquis (@drjwmarquis)’s blog post, “Flipping and Expanding Bloom’s Taxonomy” got me thinking. I have generally ignored Bloom’s Taxonomy because so much of it seems wrong to me –Shelly Wri...
Digital Literacy and giving people fish... 6 Feb 2012 | 12:54 am
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime --> read more
On the topic of 'singing'... 24 Oct 2011 | 08:03 am
While I am feeling *ahem* musical, here's a song (In to the midnight blue) I wrote a long time ago, which I finally got round to re-recording. It could be a lot better, I know... CC ND licence on t...
Digitally Ready... 27 Sep 2011 | 05:52 am
I'm really happy to be involved in a new JISC project here at the University of Reading, called Digitally Ready. We've got the first programme meeting coming up soon, and the programme managers at J...
