Talk point: hands off my PowerPoint! Why don't more academics use open educational resources? | Higher Education Network On Monday 3 October, at the #OpenDataLDN meet-up, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation, I sat in a group led by Javiera Atenas, an academic at the University of Hertfordshire, on open educational resources (OER) and marvelled at the number of tools that existed to facilitate resource sharing. The event was organised as an opportunity to discuss ideas and developments around open data and open knowledge projects – ranging from open governance to data journalism. MIT's open courseware was lauded as an exceptional example of openness but there were also homegrown tools available such as the University of Nottingham's Xpert repository or Jorum.ac.uk, a site set up to enable teachers to find, share and discuss teaching resources, across all of the UK's HE and FE communities. So in this talk point, I'd like to explore these claims: why are many so reluctant to share teaching resources? Post your questions, comments and ideas below or tweet us what you think.
eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates 1 – 2 – 3 – Word Cloud! | Socrative Garden 244EmailShare Word Clouds (wordle to most) can be a dynamic tool for visualizing text and for presenting a group’s thinking. They are AMAZING! While planning for the Future of Learning conference at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, I wanted to capture and share our participants’ views on “What are the key features of 21st Century Learning”. At first, word clouds didn’t cross my mind because in past experiences I had entered a historical speech, lecture notes or asynchronously generated google docs. Here’s the system. 1. What are the key features of 21st century learning? * have students answer in all lower case so there is consistency in the word cloud. 2. A Short Answer question’s responses will populate your teacher screen. 3. Short Answer – highlight and copy the responses on the teacher screen.Quiz – highlight and copy the column of the question you want to visualize. 4. Wordle – The most well-known word cloud tool. Share your ideas!