Who owns online learning? #change11

This provocative question has been posted by Tony Bates based on the recent announcement that MIT will develop a new open learning platform. It is called Open Learning Enterprise and aimed at “ interactive, pedagogically effective online learning“. It seems that MIT can further capitalize on their investments in Open Education as they have just …

Report from the OER-HE Project: Issues on team-based development

Last autumn I have finalised the work package in the EU-funded project „Innovative OER in European Higher Education“ (OER HE). As promised in an earlier post, I am happy to share the following report with you and I am looking forward to any comments. Report OER and Team-based development

Holiday Habits #change11

We are approaching Christmas, only two more days and as we all are still participating in the MOOC #change11 I would like to take the opportunity to do a little research on cultural differences concerning Holiday habits. As you can see we have already fully decorated our Christmas tree to enjoy the illumination in dark …

Forschung 2.0?!

In der aktuellen Ausgabe der Wochenzeitung ZEIT ist ein kurzer Artikel zum Thema Forschung im Zeitalter von Web 2.0. In diesem Zusammenhang wurde ich gebeten, eine Stellungnahme zur Plattform „iversity“ zu geben. Nach Aufrufen der Seite kommt man angesichts der üppigen Sponsoren und Unterstützer in Form von ProfessorInnen ins Staunen. Genaueres Hinschauen offenbart jedoch einen …