Privacy concerns in different countries and their impact on online learning

The internet has been hailed as a democratic tool that opens services and content to individuals all over the world. In fact, most of the content in the internet is free. We can watch videos on Youtube, listen to music on Spotify, communicate via Skype, have access to a detailed lexicon on Wikipedia, and soContinue reading “Privacy concerns in different countries and their impact on online learning”

Topic 2

In these past couple of weeks the work in our PBL group has been focused on the advantages and disadvantages of open learning. In trying to think what openness means for my own practice, as teacher and learner, I realize that a) although I have taken steps in the direction of openness, my experience soContinue reading “Topic 2”

Open Pedagogy

The idea of open in higher education has multiple interpretations, and a considerable lack of clarity, partly due to the use of varied terms such as the Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open education, Open lear…