Background During the presentation on Open Education around the world at OISE last week, I wanted to really highlight to people the incredible array of resources available, in many different languages. I also discussed three different purposes of openness, direct use (by target audience, usually students), reuse (ie. recontextualized by a teacher or other intermediary [...]
My institution holds an annual graduate research conference, where all students can present their ongoing research in a friendly and welcoming environment. This is both an opportunity to practice for students who are planning to present at for example CIES or AERA, but also a great opportunity to break down some walls and learn about [...]
I gave a presentation at OISE Education Commons today, together with Professor Jim Slotta, entitled “Open education around the world”. I was very grateful to be invited by Education Commons to give one of their talk, since they only feature one or two each semester. I was also very lucky to be working together with [...]
Last week, I attended the Connexions/OpenCourseWare Consortium conference at Rice University, and I gave a presentation on OpenCourseWare in China (see abstract). The presentation roughly touches on three different aspects: The translation and use of MIT OpenCourseWare in China, the Chinese Ministry of Education led OpenCourseWare project, and the research on OpenCourseWare in Chinese. This [...]
Background I somehow came across the homepage of Sarai about two years ago, while living in Indonesia. I was extremely impressed with what I saw from their webpages and mailing lists – a vibrant community space/collective that was interested in many of the same things as me; urban issues in developing countries, open source, open [...]
I have been thinking about trying “event blogging” for a while, since I have such a portable laptop now, and inspired by the master, Ethan Zuckerman and his tips for conference bloggers. Incidentally, I am going to a conference on international comparative education (CIES) in New York in March, maybe I will try this there. [...]
