Turning coal to gold – How can the open education resources (OERs) be turned into gold?

Posted on by Wasif Afzal

Reading the limitations of open education resources (OERs) from Section 10.2.4 of Bates book on “Teaching in a digital age: Guidelines for teaching and learning”, I could immediately relate to how often I have found “some” of the open education resources to be like “coal”, as Bates puts it: “sitting there waiting to be loaded”, … Continue reading Turning coal to gold – How can the open education resources (OERs) be turned into gold? →

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on by Nathalie Baumann

As well mentioned in the introduction video it‘s a very broad and diverse understanding behind the word „Open“ – I like a lot how the multiple perspectives are explained and that in the end each of us has in some perspective a similar understanding, which brings us together, and of course some differences which I… Weiterlesen →

Clive’s New Learning Space 2019-03-25 18:21:21

Posted on by Clive Whaits

Reflections – Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies Online participation, what does this refer to? According to Hrastinski [1], online participation is a complex process of taking part and maintaining relations with others, is supported by physical and psychological tools, is not synonymous with talking or writing, and may involve collaboration with peers but … Continue reading →

Reflections – Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Posted on by Clive Whaits

Online participation, what does this refer to? According to Hrastinski [1], online participation is a complex process of taking part and maintaining relations with others, is supported by physical and psychological tools, is not synonymous with talking or writing, and may involve collaboration with peers but essentially it may involve all kinds of relations. Before … Continue reading Reflections – Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies →

Intrinsic motivation and TBL

Posted on by Mesfin Tessma

Malone and Lepper, (1987) explained seven factors that affect intrinsic motivation. The seven theories are categorized in to two major parts: individual motivation and interpersonal motivation. Individual motivation includes, challenge, curiosity, control and fantasy. The interpersonal motivation comprises three parts, namely cooperation, competition and recognition. Detailed explanation of the seven parts is reported by Malone … Continue reading Intrinsic motivation and TBL

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Digital literacy, digital tools and online participation – why context matters?

Posted on by Mboni Amiri Ruzegea

Digital literacy is a new currency that we are using to trade digital technologies for learning and teaching in online landscape. However, there is a significance difference between digital skills and digital literacy. Pewhairangi (2016) wrote on her blog post “Digital skills focus on knowing. Digital literacy focuses on understanding”. This is to say, digital skills … Continue reading Digital literacy, digital tools and online participation – why context matters?

Recording from meeting, wed March 6th

Posted on by Malin EkstrandLeave a Comment on Recording from meeting, wed March 6th

Hi! Im still having technical problems with zoom and yesterdays meeting is unfortunately only available as audio file. Its posted in our Google drive folder together with the chat. Shushentha and Mboni will post notes and action points. The collaborative Fish-document is in our drive folder: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DoUbk5l6ohZehmC48evJgQVw-7J_NrKheVJstvyusDw/edit# Please add your thoughts and ideas on the scenario […]