In a post-truth world what can we say? I sit in rooms where we discuss what learners should have, based on our best thinking about what kind of learning is good for them. They don’t want it. They want Brexit and Trump and passive learning with no hard exams. 10 million MOOC fans can’t be …
Category: People, Place and Work
things right to copy
Copyright is a hot topic in the heady world of lecture capture. It’s also Thing 11 in our online course 23 Things for Digital Knowledge We are lucky to be able to learn from best practice at other institutions. The excellent Jane Secker ( UK Copyright Literacy) has been doing some research to find out …
things can only get beta
Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as ‘perpetualy beta‘. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It’ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it’s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence. Wikipedia/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our ‘23 …
things to read carefully
Since we are thinking about Twitter and we have learned about privacy, and we have read our social media guidelines and we are going to learn about copyright and OER; I thought it was worth having a good look at the Twitter Terms of Service. https://twitter.com/tos I note in the first point: ‘ If you …
thinking about things
I am participating in the University of Edinburgh digital skills course ‘23 things for digital knowledge‘. The first thing to do is to think about blogging. I have been blogging for about 10 years now. I have always had a university hosted blog rather than a personal one. I enjoy the opportunity for reflective writing …