Introduction I have had many opportunities to think about grading and assessment this term. I am currently running a course called Introduction to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, and have thought a lot about incentive mechanisms and badges with Monica Resendes, who is co-facilitating the course with me. I am also preparing to design and teach a course in [...]
I have been intimately involved with P2PU since the first courses started in September 2009, working on supporting course organizers, designing and developing some of the technology, and thinking about the models of learning interactions that we wanted to support. However, I have still not taught a single course myself. Time to change that! I [...]
This term, I took a Knowledge Media and Design Institute class on values and design. Part of the class was a group assignment that had us choose a public venue, and do unobtrusive participant observation (this could be a public square, a museum or another place where people congregate). Based on what we found through [...]
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 [...]
Today was the first day of the conference, with a lot of very interesting sessions. Too much to process at once, but hopefully these notes will be useful. They were taken in Etherpad, and others, especially Andrew Barras, helped out. Doug Clow also took very extensive notes from the sessions (morning, afternoon). More below the [...]
This week, I am participating in the first Learning Analytics conference in Banff, Alberta. I’m interested in this topic both for my PhD research, and it’s also something that P2PU has been very interested in pursuing. I started taking notes in Etherpad, and invited others to join me – most of the notes below were [...]
I first became aware of the explosion in interest around foreign open courses in China when I was asked for an interview by a Chinese reporter writing about this phenomenon (interview in Chinese). Instead of the traditional 开放式课程 (kaifangshi kecheng) – quite a literal translation of “open courses / open courseware”, the new term being [...]
Ever since I began the research on my MA thesis on the Chinese Top Level Courses Project, I was aware that I wanted to get the thesis translated into Chinese. Not only because I believe it’s the only ethical thing to do – when so many people in China have gone out of their way [...]
