Today’s post is a bit of a reflection on reflection, and how it has been resourceful for me to reflect, process and adapt. What I am adopting as a new habit with this course is having some time to think, reflect and process through the act of writing. I might call it an internal cravingContinue reading “Reflection on reflection”

To share OR not to share? When someone thinks about openness in education and learning first thing that come in mind is license sharing. For me openness means sharing your resources freely available to scholars and researches. this topic has opened my views on sharing my resources and information online. In topic two we discussedContinue reading “Topic 2: Openness in education and learning”

I have never believed in a purely ‘instructivist’ model of higher education for my courses, whereby the role of the teacher is only to ‘transfer knowledge down’ to the students (Crosslin, 2016). Instead, I largely subscribe to a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Among other things, this means that I conceive of my roleContinue reading “From constructivist to connectivist teaching and learning”

I had a very narrow understanding of what it meant to “be open” as an educator before embarking on this course. I didn’t view openness as a spectrum but rather two stark choices, either you were open (and I simply equated this with offering one’s course at a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) level) or […]

As a lifelong learner, it is my first exposure with open education.  After spending 2 weeks, I am still at the discovery stage in understanding more about open learning. With the open COVID Pledge (Creative Commons, 2020)  for organisations around the world to make patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against the pandemic; …

Continue reading Building A Viable Open Education

As a lifelong learner, it is my first exposure with open education.  After spending 2 weeks, I am still at the discovery stage in understanding more about open learning. With the open COVID Pledge (Creative Commons, 2020)  for organisations around the world to make patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against the pandemic; …

Continue reading Building A Viable Open Education

To share or not to share? is the question of the past two week(s). A question that, at first, seemed like a simple one turned out to be quite the contrary. It led to more questions. Why is openness in education important? What are the motivations to ‘go open’? What does openness even mean? WhatContinue reading “What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education”