Ethics and Educational Technology (thoughts on #altc22 keynote)

This week the GO-GN team and myself attended the Association of Learning Technologists Annual Conference at the University of Manchester. I haven’t attended this conference for a number of years so it was good to return and see what kind of conversations people were having – especially after the turmoil and pressure of the last […]

Open, Online, Flexible and Technology Enhanced Models for Learning (OOFAT) interim report presentation

Today I’m presenting results of the OOFAT (Models for Open, Online, Flexible and Technology-Enhanced Learning) at The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2017: Higher Education for the Future – ‘Accelerating and Strengthening Innovation’. Here are a copy of the slides for those who are interested…

Framework for an ethics of open education #oeglobal

Here are my slides from today’s presentation. You can access the full paper in Open Praxis from May 2016 via http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.2.291.

Colonisers and edupunks (&c.): two cultures in OER?

I’ve started writing this post at the Open Education 2015 conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver because I want to try and capture some thoughts about the evolution of this movement and community. But I’m finishing it from home after a little bit of time to digest and also after attending OpenUpTRU in Kamloops earlier […]

Open Education Symposium 2016

Next February I’ll be speaking in Utah Valley University for the upcoming Open Eduction Symposium 2016. Looking forward to it! I believe tickets are available here. Open Education Symposium Flyer

ROER4D Workshop, Banff 2015 – Day Two

For the morning of Day Two of the workshop the group split into working groups. I floated between the groups and tried to capture a sense of what was being discussed in each. Qualitative Data Analysis (led by Freda Wolfenden & David Porter) Freda presented some key things to consider: What does data analysis mean in […]

ROER4D Workshop, Banff 2015 – Day One

My notes from the ROER4D research workshop in Banff, Alberta (April 2015)

Uncensored State of the Union: OER Unfiltered #oer2015

Drawing proceedings at the Hewlett Grantees meeting towards its close is a final keynote by Hal Plotkin, currently Senior Open Policy Fellow at Creative Commons USA and formerly Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education for the Obama administration. I interviewed Hal for OER Research Hub back in 2013, so am quite […]

Wikipedia in Action #oer2015

Another sunny morning in California and more OER related action from the Hewlett Grantees meeting in Sausalito. The next session I’m going to attempt to capture is a panel discussion about Wikipedia. Here are the participants: Pete Forsyth, Wiki Strategies (PF, facilitator) Amin Azzam, UCSF (AA) Dan Cook,Wiki Strategies (DC) Jeannette Lee, Cambridge School of […]

Learning from disruption #oer2015

I’m in Sausalito, California in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge for the Hewlett Grantees meeting this week. Today is the start of proceedings proper, and I’m going to blog some of the presentations and seminars. First off is Douglas Gayeton of Lexicon of Sustainability, which attempts to explain basic principles of economy and […]