Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness

Openness in education means open resources, open tools and open participation courses. It’s about sharing materials, collaboration and allowing learning. Openness requires trust. For example, I can share my materials with a Creative Commons license that requires giving appropriate credit to the licensor, but I have to trust that others know and respect the license.Continue reading “Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness”

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Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay My teaching career began in a time when computers were first starting to be implemented in schools. There were computer labs where you could book in and students would work on very simple tasks that integrated technology. In late 2008, Australia’s then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched the Digital … Continue reading Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Sharing the right way

For online teaching and collaborative work, these are great times. Many of our colleagues and institutions are sharing their work, and helping each other in this stressful situation. Sharing is caring and the essence of what teaching is. Unfortunately, many…