Category: Open
[Open] It begins
(I’ll use the [Open] tag, as well as creating a new category, to set off the Open Education stuff from everything else) So, about 10 students and one interested bystander (waves @ Crank) have signed up for the open discussion forum. No posts yet – except the spam I’m still smiting each morning – but…
Open Education – It’s Here, Now!
Here’s an announcement I just posted (with slight tweaks) on the web sites for both of my courses: I’m trying an experiment this semester. It’s 100% your decision whether you participate or not. There’s no cost, and it’s irrelevant to your grade in the course*, and I won’t be using it to write any research…
Spam
So, I built a forum on the 6th of this month, as described in this post. Now, 11 days later, there are 1107 spam posts in one forum and 696 in another. Off to spend a few minutes fixing the filters.
An Open (Science Teaching) Forum
I was struck by an idea while riding in this morning1. I was thinking about MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses – clickety for more info). Suzie has just joined one from Berkeley, an introduction to statistics, and I’m doing some writing about connectivism, the underlying theory. At the same time, I’m working on setting up…
Open Teaching, Right Here, Right… … In About A Month
I’m inspired by this post from P Z Myers, in which he talks about posting his lecture materials on his blog: One thing I’m considering doing differently…I might post summaries of lectures and discussion topics here, if time allows. Public exposure of all the stuff that usually goes on behind the doors of the classroom?…