Openness: A Common Property? #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
This is my final submitted digital artefact for the Open Education MOOC course (#h817open). The images and music used in this presentation are all Creative Commons licensed content. This is a reflection on the notion of “openness” and what interests me the most is what is this thing called “openness” and how and why is [...]
Tags: digital literacy, h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open learner, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, week 7
The Open Learner #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Digital Literacy, Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
In 2006, my institution took part in a joint Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) venture called the e-Learning Benchmarking and Pathfinder Project (HEA, 2008). Our project was called Digital Experience Building in University Teaching (DEBUT) (Westerman & Barry, 2009) and we had identified quite early on that digital literacy was going [...]
Tags: digital literacy, h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open learner, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, week 6
The Way of the Rhizome #h817open
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This is not my first foray into the realms of the “rhizome metaphor“, I was aware of Deleuze & Guattari’s (1988) rhizome metaphor which was introduced to me as a student on the MSc in e-Learning with the University of Edinburgh (yes, I know, another shameless plug). The rhizome metaphor was used in the context of [...]
Tags: h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, rhizomatic learning, week 5
Comparing the MOOC dot com #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Like OpenLearn’s “Open Education” course, the “Digital Storytelling” course is also “open” in the respect that course content is publicly available and accessible. Whereas the courses on Coursera and Udacity are “closed” and requires the user to sign-up and enrol into a course before they are able to access content. In Coursera’s case, the content [...]
Tags: coursera, ds106, h817open, mooc, open education, open university, openlearn, udacity, week 4
The Three Challenges for Open Educational Resources #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Technology, Virtual Spaces
The term Open Educational Resources (OERs) was first introduced at a conference hosted by UNESCO in 2000, which broadly defined it as: The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes (UNESCO, 2002:24). However, since then others have attempted to [...]
Tags: h817open, learning objects, mooc, oer, open education, open educational resource, open university, openlearn, week 2
Five minutes with … Wayne Barry
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Despite saying that I wasn’t planning on participating in another MOOC because I was about to embark on a Doctorate in Education (EdD) at Canterbury Christ Church University, so up pops the “Open Education” MOOC from The Open University on the OpenLearn platform. Life lesson #42: Never say never. So here I am! You can [...]
Tags: h817open, mooc, open education, open university, openlearn, personal statement, q&a, week 1
Assessing the #edcmooc digital artefact
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Hmmm, I still find myself not quite walking away from my phenomenal #edcmooc experience – though this has not been the experience for everyone who have not liked the laissez-faire approach of this course (Young, 2013). At 1.00am on Monday 4th March 2013, my grade and feedback on my digital artefact had been released to me. I [...]
Tags: assessment, coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, feedback
Learning through a lens on the #edcmooc
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I thought I had drawn a line under my #edcmooc experience, but there is a something that is still niggling at me to say just a little bit more. In the preamble to the course, the tutors wanted to invite the participants to “view online educational practices through a particular lens – that of popular [...]
Tags: copyright, coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open access, open education, popular culture, reflection
Reflections on the #edcmooc (Part 2)
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This is the second of 2 blog posts on my critical reflection of the E-learning and Digital Cultures Coursera course with the University of Edinburgh. Tutor Presence One of the most interesting things to come out of the #edcmooc was a post from an anonymous participant in an EDCMOOC discussion forum thread entitled “Where are the professors?” which ran along [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open education, reflection
Reflections on the #edcmooc (Part 1)
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Well folks, what an amazing five weeks it has been on the E-learning and Digital Cultures Coursera course with the University of Edinburgh and I have enjoyed very single second of it – what a brilliant and fantastic experience to be part of this endeavour. As promised, I am going to be using this blog post [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open education, reflection
