Why continuous feedback from students to teachers is a win-win

Feedbacks are useful to rethink activities and improve the effects of our actions. For an effective teaching-and-learning process, it is important that feedbacks that are given by students and teachers work in both directions. Dec 10, 2020 A teacher enters a classroom and sits at the chair in front of the blackboard. There are 5Continua a leggere “Why continuous feedback from students to teachers is a win-win”

Open Minds

I must admit that the talk by Maha Bali opened up several avenues of thought for me concerning open education. Previously my perception of open education was perhaps somewhat naive and oversimplified – to me, it was mainly a matter of cost. Textbooks, case studies, reference books and other teaching materials can be a heavyContinue reading “Open Minds”

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What is open pedagogy?

Definitions of open educational practices range but consistently focus on fostering learner activity and agency. (Bali, Cronin, Jhangiani, 2020). As asserted by Wiley, Lambert, and Cronin, OEP has largely escaped definition; often blurred with eLearning, online learning, and advances in … Continue reading

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Creative Commons for Education

Google is to web search, as Kleenex is to facial tissue. In fact, having googled the answer myself, I found out that google, the verb, is a proper English term. It has been since 2006. according to this article on Wired.com. We appreciate the efficiency and accuracy of the Google algorithm to get us the resources we want. Next, we select the ones relevant to …

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The Open Road

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. (from Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman) In the last few weeks we have all explored openness and sharing, topic 2 on this course, and I have thought much about … Continue reading “The Open Road”