Why I think (OPEN) courses should be about content creation. I’ve been tangled in a number of projects and have left my blog sadly neglected.
I have mentioned a few times on the blog that ‘content creation’ or ‘knowledge negotiation’ are integral to the rhizomatic learning process but have not addressed the issue of content creation directly. I have been having such a difficult time writing lately that I don’t expect this to come out very smoothly… i just need to get it written I made a hastily written comment on the OERU googlegroup newsletter around the first of november.
“Does any of us, in this day and age, want to be part of an educational experience like a MOOC where content creation by students is left out?” What I meant by that, and didn’t really explain very well, was that given the connective technologies we have and given the possibilities for learning, why would we go through the effort of pulling a course together if only to transmit content. Here’s the response I received from Rory Rory McGreal UNESCO/COL Chair in OER at Athabasca. Bottom Line Performance » The Right Learning Solution! #BLPLearn is our way of saving all of the great content our team curates… and sharing it with the wider community.
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Wayland High School's One-to-One iPad Pilot. Publications. The following provides pointers to most of the publications I’ve produced over the year.
The following contains some statistics about the publications before listing them by year of publication. If you want to see some citation metrics for these, take a look at my Google scholar profile. David Jones, Colin Beer, Damien Clark, (2013), The IRAC framework: Locating the performance zone for learning analytics, to be presented at ASCILITE’2013 David Jones, Avoiding the learning analytics fad: Forgotten insights and example applications, Invited presentation at the Inaugural University Analytics Forum, Melbourne, 26-27 September, 2013 David Jones, Colin Beer, Moving beyond a fashion: Likely paths and pitfalls for learning analytics, Invited presentation at Blended Learning’2013, Sydney, 18-19 September, 2013 David Jones (2013), Moodle, BIM, reflective journals and TPACK: Suggestions for moving beyond, to be presented at Moodlemoot’AU 2013 Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Raj Gururajan, David Jones and P.
Online Learning Faculty Reveal Top 5 Annoying Online Student Complaints. Connected Teaching and Learning – Using online delivery and social media for more engaged and effective learning at Queen’s University. Richard Guarasci.
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