Skilio OERu 13.10 report From WikiEducator Group photo of the attendees[1] at the 2nd meeting of OERu anchor partners on the occasion of the official launch of the OERu. The second meeting of OERu anchor partners and international launch of the OERu collaboration was hosted by Thompson Rivers University on 31 October and 1 November 2013 in Kamloops, Canada. Sir John Daniel, open learning visionary and former UNESCO Assistant Director General of Education, was the guest of honour and formally launched the OERu website on 1 November 2013. As an open project, all accredited post-secondary institutions are free to join the OERu international partnership. Session 1: Aims of the meeting and meeting our partners Dr Irwin DeVries, Director, Curriculum Development at Thompson Rivers University facilitates the opening session of the 2nd meeting of OERu anchor partners. Dr Alan Shaver, President and Vice-Chancellor, Thompson Rivers University President Alan Shaver welcomed the participants to Thompson Rivers University.
ExamTime - Changing the way you learn Open course on MOOCs Welcome to the free OpenLearn course on open education. This course runs over seven weeks and is focused around the subject of openness in education. The course is an adapted extract from the Open University Masters-level course H817 Openness and innovation in elearning55 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip56)] (of which this is one of four blocks) and open, informal learners. This is the ‘stand alone’ version of the course, so you will be studying it independently of other students. This means others may not be studying at the same time, so the interaction found through blogs and forums may not be relevant, and is not monitored by the course team. The course operates an activity-based pedagogy, so within each week there will be approximately four activities: in these you will typically be expected to read some material (or view some other media), perform an activity and create a short blog post. The topics you will study in the coming weeks are:
France : Université: le boom des cours gratuits sur Internet Retraités, salariés… Plus besoin d'aller sur les bancs de la fac pour s'instruire. Toutes les universités ont désormais un site Web dédié à l'enseignement (www.universites-numeriques.fr). La plupart ont décidé de faire en sorte que leurs ressources pédagogiques soient de plus en plus souvent rendues publiques. Selon le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, qui a financé la formation de deux mille enseignants en la matière, le volume de cours disponibles en fichiers podcast numérisés, vidéo ou audio, a triplé entre 2009 et 2010, passant de 12.000 à 30.000 heures. «Ce chiffre a sans doute encore doublé depuis», assure le responsable des nouvelles technologies d'une université parisienne. Au point que les enseignants sont régulièrement contactés par des passionnés… qui ne sont plus étudiants depuis longtemps. Marché noir Les leçons rendues accessibles au grand public sont généralement adaptés. «L'idée de partager mes cours me plaît» «Une aventure positive»
MIT App Inventor Get Started Follow these simple directions to build your first app! Tutorials Step-by-step guides show you how to create even more apps. Teach Find out about curriculum and resources for teachers. Forums Join community forums to get answers to your questions. 20 questions (and answers) about MOOCs « Dave's Educational Blog I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering their questions i have a chance to lay out many of the thoughts that I have had about MOOCs while they have been all the rage here on the internet in the last few weeks. I opened the discussion with a quick personal intro to my contribution to the MOOC discussion and then we moved to Q & A. Feel free to skim along and pick up the part of the discussion that interests you. Intro Edtechtalk and community – 2005 In 2005 Jeff Lebow and I started edtechtalk. What i discovered was that, simply by engaging in random discussions with new people we happened upon – I was learning. Rhizomes 2006 This lead me to new ideas about what it meant to learn and what it meant to know. Q & A. I see it as a win.
Zaption - Interact & Learn with Video Lessons Techniques innovantes pour l'enseignement supérieur Learning There are various ways of learning Lojban unique to the individual learning it, but to help you get started here are some suggestions. There are also learning materials available in non-English languages. Here are the links for learning Lojban. ✔ - is a popular textbook ✔ - is the full grammar ✔ - is a good introductory video ✔ - is the dictionary ✔ - is an alternative offline dictionary ✔ - is a great place where you can learn lojban words online. - automatic grammar check of what you write in Lojban (which is unique among all languages!) - Even better than the previous item. - a community. is a chat where you can make friends and ask for help for learning lojban (in #ckule section). Other resources: ✔ . . . .
Duonique Khan Academy Readings in Social Media 2013 - Serendipity35 This will be the fourth summer that I will teach my graduate class in designing social media. Every year, I have asked online for suggestions of book (not usually "textbooks") for the class which is part of the MS in Professional and Technical Communication at NJIT . Students in the PTC program tend to be (or intend to be) designers, technical writers, media & social media managers, but I always get a few students from the management, communications, media, IT and design majors. The course examines how organizations use social media as communication tools for marketing, education & training and community building and students do social media surveys and create strategy proposals for actual organizations. Making the reading selection process itself a social media project seems appropriate. Books and readings in social media go out of date so quickly that it seems foolish to rely on a traditional textbook. I am also a proponent of Open Educational Resources, especially open textbooks.
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