A few weeks ago a bunch of GO-GNer’s braved the time difference and webinar chatted about Open Education publishing opportunities. We all favoured Open Access journals on principle, but also noted that sometimes this means we tend to publish in…
Join this webinar conversation and find out from peers and well published experts how they rate the various publishing avenues. Webinar conversation: June 1st, 10 am London, 7 pm Melbourne (Australia) Recording available Hi GO-GNers! At the March GO-GN…
What an incredibly productive time I had in Cape Town recently. Thanks so much to organisers and colleagues. It was great to be in such supportive and inspirational company working to improve the quality of ideas in my PhD at…
One of the cliched things that well-meaning people say to PhD students is that it’s important to remember that the PhD is ultimately an exam with specific criteria for passing. These criteria are fairly consistent across university systems, but also…
This post originally appeared on my personal blog at Last month, I had my viva – and passed! I have some minor corrections to do, including expanding on certain points and typos, but I was very pleased with the…
I just saw this website and thought it was worth sharing with the GO-GN community. This is a (CC-BY) blog which draws together a lot of resources for PhD student and personal testimony from doctoral candidates. There are regular…
A few days ago I attended the first workshop at my university’s School of Education hosted by our new Associate Dean of Research. The topic was “Building a Foundation for a Program of Research: Navigating the Complexities”. The hour and a half…
Writing for Research is a blog that draws together resources intended to help with the process of writing and publishing research. There’s a lot of useful stuff on there. Here’s a sample of some of the recent entries to provide…
Educational technologies have evolved in recent decades, but little attention has been given to ensure that the learning software can survive the rapidly technological changes. ICT (Information and Communications Technology) development has been incorporated into the educational methodologies, changes have…
This post was written by Dr Kati Clements and originally published on the Open Education Working Group blog. Thinking of doing a PhD in Open Education? Sounds like a good idea, yes? Well, I guess I could tell you…
