This week I'm in the beautiful town of Banff in the state of Alberta (Canada) for the Open Education Global Conference 2015. This is the yearly conference organised by the Open Education Consortium. As board member I have to be present at this… more »
Tag: "open education"
This afternoon we organised an Open Education Week Seminar as part of the 4th Open Education Week. I had the honour to do the keynote about the state of Open Education. Below are the slides I used during the presentations. The video recording will… more »
As sustainable member (and board member) of the Open Education Consortium we feel obliged to actively participate in the Open Education Week (Noblesse oblige). Here you find the overview of the activities we are organising on our campus in Delft. There… more »
Last week David Wiley published An Open Education Reader, a collection of readings on open education with commentary created by students in his graduate course Introduction to Open Education taught at Brigham Young University, Fall 2014.
This group of… more »
OER Research Hub has released it first dissemination report, The ‘OER Evidence Report 2013-2014′ brings together a range of evidence around the research hypotheses of the product and provides an overview of the impact OER is having on a range of… more »
I'm hiring another eLearning developer to further expand our Course Development Team:
As eLearning Developer you will be part of a team creating advanced eLearning modules that will be part of the new Delft Extension School. more »
The EU has a High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education and they have written an report about new modes of learning and teaching in higher education.
The report starts with an introduction of EU comissioner Androulla Vassiliou. The most… more »
D'Arcy Norman started an interesting discussion about the false binary of LMS vs. Open. Here some interesting responses:
Sheila MacNeill: Living with the VLE dictator
Peter Reed: The VLE vs 'Whatever'
Amber Thomas: Why VLEs aren’t evil
Mike… more »
SURF and the Open Education Special Interest Group published a special report on the didactics of open and online education. SURF organised a ‘pressure cook’ session on the didactics of open and online education on 24 June 2014. The aim of this meeting… more »
At the 2014 Knewton Symposium David Wiley made the bold claim that "in the near future, 80 percent of textbooks would be replaced by OER content." This statement led to some interesting discussion about the Open Education Resources ecosystem. more »