OER’s – Learning to share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeyCc6we-s The video is an introduction to using Open Education Resources (OER), the video refers to education being costly and not easily accessible as well as material not being updated which can have serious implica…

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Obstacles and possibilities with open learning

During the two weeks of topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness, my group and I have had interesting discussions about the possibilities and dangers with open resources. Most of us believe that openness is very positive, as you can take part of many kinds of different open resources; education, articles, books, illustrations, codes … Continue reading Obstacles and possibilities with open learning

Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

Past weeks I have been learning about OER – Open Educational Resources. It is a vast field and OER touches on several aspects within the realm of education. One aspect that caught my interest is how OER challenges the traditional academic publication system. Along with publishing something questions about such as copyright, validity, authority, rigor … Continue reading Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

OPEN LEARNING – sharing and openness (Topic 2)

During these last weeks I have been overwhelmed by the mass of shared feelings, ideas, tools and experiences on the ONL192 blogs. I have only just begun reading and taking part and is finding it totally wonderful (and a bit stressful). Besides from discussing different definitions of open education/open pedagogy/open resources we have been focusing […]

Open Learning — Sharing and Openness

Digital tools for teaching and learning are almost a need in the contemporaneous classroom. Education is in superficiem, a communication process, therefore its ontology is strongly influenced by the technological evolution of the media [1]. The inclusion of new technologies in the teaching process has motivated that high profile educational institutions to create online coursesContinue reading “Open Learning — Sharing and Openness”