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Where is the social justice in open education?
Easter break is a good time for writing. I just finished compiling a data summary and findings synthesised from a 9000 word textual analysis undertaken in the preparation of a journal paper. (Relief!)…
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Independent beer for Xmas, independent Open Ed for 2018?
The decision of what beer to buy for our upcoming Christmas celebrations was particularly fraught this year. The “craft” beer on sale at the local liquor store turned out to be just another…
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Steps in Becoming an Open Practitioner
[This post was written by Carina Bossu, Lecturer Learning and Teaching (OEP), University of Tasmania, and first published on ASCILITE’s blog TELall.] This is my first official blog post, which is exciting and…
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Looking back…
Note, this post was first shared via Sue’s blog and Chrissi’s blog Thank you Santanu Vasant (@santanuvasant) for bringing #HEblogswap to life. It is a great way to share and connect experiences among practitioners.…
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Open Ed publishing: ideas shared
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…
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Life after the doctorate: Panel at the 2017 Cape Town seminar
In the afternoon of our second day at the 2017 GO-GN seminar in Cape Town, our group turned to address the ideas I brought up in my GO-GN blog post last fallĀ about post-PhD…
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Are we Tuko Pamoja (together) in the need for better ideas synthesis tools?
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…
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Notes on surviving a viva
This post originally appeared on my personal blog at http://shiftandrefresh.wordpress.com. Last month, I had my viva – and passed! I have some minor corrections to do, including expanding on certain points and typos,…
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OERs and accessibility
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…
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Writing a PhD in Open Education
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?…