Schlagwort: #change11

Bildung and media ecology

During the last two days I have been participating at the conference  “Educational Media Ecologies: International Perspectives” held at the University of Paderborn. It was a small (approximately 30 people) group which aimed at interesting discussions. For me the notion of ecology and its relations to media were rather new. So I have learned a […]

An open didactic triangle #change11

What I most like about David Wiley’s ambitions to promote openness in education is his great talent to bring arguments to the bottom line. In presentation like this, he clearly points out the role of openness in education. Despite other implicit meanings of that, David Wiley goes on to postulate that openness is the only […]

Struggle to progress

Taking part in two Open Online Courses (MOOC #change11 and P2PU) demands a lot of attention and effort. Sometimes it may feel like you have to carry a big backpack or rucksack as we in Germany call it. Does anybody feel the same?? I have to come up with a learning plan and I have […]

Survey on Use of OER

As part of my research fellowship at the OLNet I am investigating how people make use of OER and how that is affecting their learning process. I have set up a little survey for this with 16 questions. So it will not take much of your time. The survey is open for everyone interested in […]

Digitial Scholar and self-regulated learning #change11

This week’s topic in the MOOC #change11 is about the digital scholar, a concept thoroughly researched by one of my colleagues in the OlNet team, Martin Weller. He just published a book with the same title which can be accessed here. I found the parallels between Open Education and the music or newspaper industry interesting […]

Cooperation and Collaboration with OER #Change11

The recently raised question concerning cooperation and collaboration in settings of change such as the MOOC #change11 is surely an important issue. Here is an interesting blog post with a related discussion. I have been involved in a large EU project where we attempt to build a model for team-based development in Higher Education to […]

Another inspiring week at OLNet

I am in the middle of another inspiring and productive week as a research fellow at the OLNet project. Some of the events I have been part of were: Workshop on use and reuse in Open Educational Resources, entitled „Is reuse the key to sustainable elearning?  Are we any nearer to grasping this Holy Grail?“,  […]

My introduction to the MOOC #change11

The currently running MOOC #change11 is a really amazing learning opportunity. Therefore, I decided to do a little video with a brief introduction of my person and my goals. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3U7z777DAs&feature=player_profilepage]