AERA stands for the American Educational Research Association, but as with so many American associations, their annual meeting is a decidedly international affair. It’s also gigantic, easily the largest meeting of educators in the world, with this year’s meeting bringing some 13,000 attendees spread over 5 large hotels in downtown New Orleans. This was my [...]
Thanks to the generous recommendation by Zaid Ali Alsagoff, George Siemens invited me to give a talk to the Connectivism 2011 MOOC. I decided that instead of giving a talk about something I know and have thought a lot about, like open access or OER, I would try to challenge myself by proposing a topic [...]
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 [...]
So far, P2PU has offered courses in English and Portuguese, and we have a growing Spanish community that is hoping to launch several Spanish courses in January. However, from the very beginning, the project has been incredibly international, with volunteers and course participants from all over the world. We’ve also been lucky to get publicity [...]
I have always been interested in Open Educational Resources from around the world, and in my presentations, I do my best to highlight not just MIT and Stanford, but also the amazing contributions from Indira Gandhi National Open University in India, the Virtual University of Pakistan, the open textbooks from Indonesia, the Chinese Top Level [...]
