Tag: open university
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-22
Researching then and now http://t.co/o9XqgCz. Great points on the importance of careful, deliberate reading in research # Out of Africa http://t.co/jl9d1EX. Educational innovation in resource constrained environments # Agile learning: How ‘making do’ can evolve into ‘making good’ | ALT Online Newsletter http://t.co/sNbaI1L # Scaffolding in Complex Learning Environments: What we have gained and what…
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Opencourseware Consortium panel discussion at UWC
Andy Lane, Archbishop, Chancellor, derek keats, Desmond Tutu, ethics, internet superstars, lecturer, Neil Butcher, OCW Consortium, oer, oer africa, open university, Opencourseware Consortium, p2pu, peer 2 peer university, Peer University, philip schmidt, south africa, United Kingdom, Vice-Chancellor, Wits UniversityLast Friday I was fortunate enough to attend 2 panel discussions on the use of OER in higher education. It was a bit of an occasion as one of the panels included a few board members of the Opencourseware Consortium (on a side note, UWC is a member of the OCW Consortium). This post is…
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Curriculum and quality: keynote from SAAHE conference 2008
I finally got around to finishing my notes from the conference. This keynote presentation from Professor J. Grant, Director of the Centre for Education in Medicine at the Open University, is about how the quality of medical education is measured, and how that measurement could be improved. You can download my notes in the following…