Against Hope: OpenEd24
It has been a long time since I’ve heard Robin speak, or seen action over on the actualham blog, but we have the privilege of getting a sneak peak at her OpenEd24 talk Against Hope. This is not your usual Open Education talk, but it is a leitmotif of many conversations I’ve been in and around…
Revisiting Open Education
It’s been a long time since I’ve sat down to really think or write about Open Education. I’m not even sure if I’ll post this, but perhaps writing will help. There was a time when I might have been characterized as an active advocate for Open Education, particularly in higher education. I sat on committees,…
On Quality of OER
Introduction This is really just a post to try to get some ideas down about quality in relation to learning resources, perhaps specifically OER. This is prompted by the work of Royce Kimmons, who I don’t think I’ve mentioned on this blog before. In 2019 I saw Royce putting together an Ed Tech Books library which is…
Dusk Requiem for OpenEd
It’s conference season again, and this time of year always brings on a heavy stream of Tweets from the Open Education Conference. Folks at the conference Tweet out all kinds of learning nuggets and inspiring work from others in the community, and sometimes you find really good finds to inform your work even if you’re…
Making Sense Day 9-15
Nathan Anderson I mentioned that I an a serial MOOC dropout right? I missed a few days. Honestly, there are lots of reasons for this. One is that some of the activities maybe I didn’t feel needed reflection here, and instead I just posted a tweet. The week we looked at GLAM OER (Day 7)…
Making Sense Day 5
Art by Lønfeldt Today’s module was by Helen DeWaard, and if you haven’t met her yet you can connect with her on twitter, virtually connecting, and at conferences. I had the pleasure of running into Helen at Open Ed Global and was able to participate in some great sessions thanks to her while there. This…
Making Sense 18 Day 3
Roman Kraft “I didn’t know what I didn’t know.” What a coincidence, I had the opportunity to basically see this module presented live at OpenEd Global 2018 in Delft, the Netherlands. Martin Weller presented these topics and the citation analysis process in Learning from the past: Development of open and distance education research over time.…