In a recent report of the Hewlett Foundation they use the Pencil Metaphor for the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). In the metaphor they identify six types of users: The Leaders First to adopt technologies, document and share practice—warts… more »
Archives for: "December 2015"
At the beginning of this month Anka Mulder did a keynote at the yearly Online Educa conference in Berlin. The title of her keynote was "Universities must be bold" and that is what we are doing. According to Donald Clark her vision is exactly what HE… more »
Gisteren op het Next Higher Education congres hield Hans Schutte, DG op het ministerie van OCW, de keynote. Hierin ging hij in op alle veranderingen die aanstaande zijn binnen het hoger onderwijs ten gevolge van studievoorschot, strategische agenda en… more »
This week the OECD published an interesting report about Open Educational Resources in educational policy and practice. The authors Dominic Orr, Michele Rimini and Dirk van Damme used the expertise of the Open Education field.
Education is the key to… more »
On Monday I attended the conference "Wow! Europe embraces MOOCs", organised by the HOME project (coordinated by EADTU). This conference is the follow up of the meeting in Porto last year. The Porto conference delivered the Porto Declaration on European… more »