Now that I have started the Tweetorials, I have had a few more thoughts about Open Education in general. One thing that has struck me is that a lot of the research and information that I found on the internet about MOOCs and Open Badges is already over 5 years old, which is digital terms […]

  Underpinning the Open Badges project is the basic premise of offering learners recognition for skills and achievements that they glean from online courses, learning networks and the like. I like the digital badges concept and I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. Yet, there are assumptions that are made about digital badge courses and […]

MOOCs and OERs were born of an optimism that Brown & Adler explore in ‘Minds of Fire’, and were a pragmatic, ambitious initiative to change the essence of education. Eminent institutions the world over embraced the concept of MOOCs as a transformative exercise in providing free education for those who want it. MOOCs Target Audience […]

I think that the concept of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a wonderful one. I am a great believer in self-directed learning and, having lived and worked in a developing country for most of my life, I can especially see how life-changing access to education can be. MOOCs have […]

My MOOC experience I joined a  FutureLearn MOOC: Teaching Young Learners Online, run by the British Council. There are 37,868 people enrolled on the course and the course is projected to last 3 weeks, with 3 hours of work a week expected. The course is aimed at English Teachers and is run by two ‘Educators’. […]

I enjoyed reading the article ‘Minds on Fire’. It set an optimistic tone (albeit in 2008). The article must have been an exciting one for its time, focussing on the potential of the Internet to enable social learning and  advocating the ‘unleashing of productive inquiry’.  The article advocates the potential of the Web 2.0 to […]