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OpenEd – week 1
The “right to education” is a basic human right because there is no way to enjoy other human rights without an appropriate education. The case of Brasil (Primer 1, Tomasevski, page 8), where...
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OpenEd – weeks 2-3-4
Mood This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is … Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman Finally, I know what I am … a leave of grass! This is what I have to say after having read the...
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OpenEd – week 5
This week I had to work for my students. They come first. So, I browsed a little bit just the MIT OCW and Connexions. Will do the rest, probably will find useful pieces … With such a lack of time, it...
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OpenEd – week 6
I’m a simple guy. Kind of a very basic hacker. In 1978, hanging around in the nuclear medicine lab – have been there for a thesis in physics – and trying to find a way to be useful to someone. Nuclear...
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OpenEd – week 7
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community...
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OpenEd – week 8
I missed the deadline yesterday. Why? I’m too busy with my students blogs! Learning by doing, isn’t it? They are 33 so far but potential bloggers in this class could be some 100 … will I cope with this...
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OpenEd – week 9
Wikinomics, written by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams points to a number of surprising business stories that nobody would have foreseen before 2000. It is, in some way, on the optimistic side...
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Opened – Week 11
The reflection weeks are a great idea! Now we have time to read the other participants posts. I believe this is particularly appreciated by those that are not full time students; even more by those...
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Opened – Week 11
I’m very sorry to be so late but I’m too busy with my students. The approach based on blogging we are using in the Open Education course and that I’m trying to apply in my courses is great but with so...
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Opened – Week 12
Answering some comments to my last post. @ Anto Andreas, I do not completely agree with you about “control and hierarchy seen in opposition to open resources.In the case of LOs, “control” may simply...
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Opened – Week 13
Really enjoyed Wiley’s close: … embrace the trib culture sooner than later. Higher education doesn’t have to remain stuck in its traditional R/O ways … I would beg those early pioneer to open their...
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Opened – Week 14
Poor post on cross-blogging, just overloaded. However, I read many of your posts: I’m learning so much from you. Thank you also for the appreciation expressed in comments to may last post. Indeed, the...
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Opened – Week 15 – Wrap up
At the beginning I was hoping to improve my background in OER issues. The course met this expectation, definitely, and it turned out also to be a great experience! It allowed me to to get a background...
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Bad and good news …
The bad one: One Laptop Per Child initiative ($100 laptop to reduce the digital divide) is struggling The good one: online university courses offered at MIT are a big hit
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Due parole su twitter
Grazie alla diavolessina di Potenza, catepol, mi ritrovo in Twitter. Una vera e propria diavolessina del WEB 2.0. Ogni pochino è lì a tesser le lodi di qualche nuova diavoleria e ci riesce bene … i...
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È da pazzi ma mi iscrivo ad un altro corso
Per il prossimo anno accademico ho già un programma di lavoro che rasenta la follia e allora io mi iscrivo ad un altro corso online, la miglior difesa è l’attacco. Ho deciso di partecipare al corso...
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Ragazzi, c’è qualcuno che mi può dare una mano?
Nel post precedente ho spiegato che lo scoglio principale nel connettere la blogoclasse al corso Connectivism and Connective Knowledge sarà linquistico: come rendere trasparente la blogoclasse al resto...
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On help again …
First of all, thanks to the students who put some translations in the feedback page. I appreciated what Caterina said La traduzione è qui, se qualcuno vuol correggere è il benvenuto because she caught...
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Mettere un corso online
Nell’ambito delle mie attività – diciamo – istituzionali mi è stato chiesto di scrivere un breve testo su cosa significhi “mettere un corso online”. Poiché il tema può rientrare fra le considerazioni...
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Assignment 5: Open Educational Resources, iniziamo con una storia
Sono le 15:02 di domenica 27 dicembre, nel preciso momento in cui sto scrivendo questo paragrafo. Il resto del post l’ho scritto quasi tutto fra ieri e oggi, mi manca poco per finire. Ho appena letto...
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