I love languages, and linguistic games. I love learning new languages, seeing connections between different languages, because they are in the same language family, or because words were imported for different reasons (religion, trade, etc). For example, there are lots of cognates between Indonesian and Hindi, some come from Sanskrit and were brought into Indonesian [...]

Existing approaches to course-based OER There are generally two approaches to course-based “big OER” (institutional OER projects, as opposed to resources released by individual professors or others). The first is the MIT OpenCourseWare approach (which has been replicated by universities across the US, and the world). Given that professors are already developing a set of materials [...]

I’ve previously posted all my tweets from different conferences, and I thought I’d do it again with the Learning Analytics conference. I don’t know how useful it is to others, but at the very least, it’s a very useful archive for myself. I tweeted much more in the beginning, and began to write more in the [...]

During the second day of the Learning Analytics Conference, I continued taking notes in Etherpad, just like I had done during the pre-conference, and day 1. After lunch, I felt quite burnt out however, after taking quite detailed notes for two and a half day already. In addition, I had some very interesting conversations during [...]