Distributed and Open Learning

Category Learning Portfolio Prompt

Module 5 Learning Portfolio Activity – Micromodules

For your final learning portfolio activity, you have the opportunity to learn from your peers! Select a micromodule from the classlist, and complete the activity. Please do not select the topic/activity that you authored! Add your completed activity to your… Continue Reading →

Module 4 Learning Activity: Reuse, Revise

Imagine you are an instructor teaching a first year course in your discipline. You have heard about Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks, and you are interested in adopted an open textbook to replace the (expensive!) text for your course…. Continue Reading →

Module 4 Learning Activity: Case Studies in Open Ed

One of the easiest ways to understand the multitude of ways that different instructors and institutions think about and implement open education is by looking at specific concrete examples. For this activity, you will choose and watch a presentation from… Continue Reading →

Module 2 Learning Activity: Places of Learning

One common criqiue of online learning is the lack of shared physical space – the absence of a classroom and the sense of placelessness that accompanies distributed learning. However, the truth is that online learning is not placeless. Online learning… Continue Reading →

Module 1 Learning Activity: Critical Discussion in Mattermost

One of the key assignments for this course is engaging in critical inquiry discussion with your group. There is no group discussion for Module 1, but, I will be hosting a week-long discussion in Mattermost from September 19th to the… Continue Reading →

Module 5 Learning Activity: Studying digital education in times of climate crisis: what can we do?

Last year, the University of Edinburgh hosted a talk with Neil Selwyn in which he talked about the often overlooked ecological impact of digital education. The recording of the session is available here. The climate crisis is clearly the elephant… Continue Reading →

Module 5 Learning Activity: While we were sleeping

Rheingold presents a bleak view on our own complacency in adopting technologies and technological practices that slowly erode our privacy and autonomy, that challenge equitable and democratic participation, or that support unethical entities merely out of convenience or “outright seduction… Continue Reading →

Module 1 Learning Activity: Metaphorically Speaking

In her piece on the future of education, Watters (2014) discusses the importance of metaphor in developing a shared understanding of phenomenon. According to Lakoff & Johnson (2003) metaphors are “understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of… Continue Reading →

Module 5 Learning Activity: Exploring speculative approaches to digital education futures

In Module 5, we consider the future. The future for education and the future for humanity in general. They are tied together and both offer equal amount of hope and despair. Speculation is a powerful methodology for imagining (and creating)… Continue Reading →

Module 4 Learning Activity: Creating an OER

As we learned in Module 4, a common approach to Open Education Practice is the use and developed of Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are celebrate not just for the potential financial benefit to students but can also be a… Continue Reading →

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