On education

There is an article in the Boston Review by Thomas Leddy called "Are MOOCs Good for Students?" In this article Leddy claims that

"MOOCs pose a great threat to the most important value of higher education: 'literacy.' By 'literacy' I mean, very broadly, the ability to read, think about, and intelligently respond (both orally and in writing) to the literature of any field of study. Thus, implementation of MOOCs for university credit is bad because it is bad for our students."

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iversity’s jury announced the 10 winners of its MOOC Production Fellowship contest. It will launch the courses for students in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. Our view is that it is interesting – and a little surprising – that all the winners were from Europe. The list of finalists we looked at showed many good proposals from North America and other parts of the world, many with sexier ideas and titles than their European counterparts. So it makes us wonder if the contest was really ever a global one or just appeared to be so? Anyways, it’s great to have MOOC players emerging from Europe, including iversity. But perhaps they should have been more up front that it was an EU competition?

The EDEN Annual Conference is organized in Oslo, May 12-15, 2013. The Nordic Open Education Alliance will be present and introduce its initiative and ideas. Join the discussion using the Twitter Tag #NordicOER online or meet us at the conference Friday, 14.06, from 12.45 to 14.00 in the session on OER.

CC BY is not essential for Open Access. However, making a paper Open Access without the CC BY licence, or with a more restrictive type of Creative Commons licence (e.g. CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC), may mean that a reader must still obtain your specific permission to adapt the work and/or use it for commercial purposes.

The different flavours of CC licence enable you to be more restrictive if you want to be, but obviously the Government/RCUK wants its publicly funded research to be as unrestricted as possible.

CC BY just gives a more liberal blanket permission for some actions.

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Established leaders have an obligation to pass the baton and help develop leadership in others. This article discusses 4 critical components to effectively mentor young professionals and inspire future leaders.

Here’s a list of blogs that feed my teaching soul, hunger for knowledge, and need for deeper insights into teaching,  learning and writing. There are so many wonderful blogs that it’s impossible to list them all here,  so I’m listing the ones that have been most relevant to my own professional development. As such, they should be relevant to any teacher who wants to turn online teaching and/or publishing into a fully-fledged career.

You can have either a fixed or growth mindset according to Carol Dweck, Which mindset do you have?

Our inaugural issue on the topic “Learning for Open Innovation” has been published. Four papers researched topics ranging from trusted educational networks and e-learning quality assurance to transformation processes in HEI middle management and quality of student experiences in Personal Learning Environments. Furthermore, one practice-based paper presents evaluation results of a staff-led innovation programme in an online university. You can read all papers online here.

Summary by SmartBrief on EdTech

"Students and teachers at three high-tech schools were selected by the White House to take place in a virtual chat about technology in schools. The "show and tell" event took place via a Google+ Hangout session for the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Chappell Elementary School in Green Bay, Wis., and Loris Elementary School in Loris, S.C."