e-Portfolios for Teacher Candidates
Teacher candidates enrolling in the Faculty of Education’s teacher education program are building e-portfolios for personal, academic and professional purposes using WordPress MU (a blogging software).
The Power of Podcasting
Podcasting is being embraced by educators to provide students with a new avenue of learning. A recent Learning Technology Institute workshop, Podcasting Basics, revealed to educators the ease of podcasting while highlighting the value educational podcasting holds in the classroom.
Open Ed 09 Keynote: Fred Mulder
To wrap up the Open Education Conference, Fred Mulder, Rector, Open Universiteit Nederland, presented his keynote address on the open educational resource (OER) initiatives that are happening in the Netherlands.
Open Ed 09 Keynote: Ken Freedman
Day two of the Open Education Conference began with a keynote address from Ken Freedman. Freeman has been working in the radio industry for over 25 years, largely at WFMU where he is station and program manager.
Open Ed 09 Keynote: Catherine Ngugi
The 2009 Open Education Conference officially kicked off with a keynote presentation by Catherine Ngugi, Project Director for Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa.
Highlights from the 2009 Open Education Conference
The 2009 Open Education Conference focused on many topics connected to open education, and all of the presentations and keynotes were streamed live and archived via Ustream. This article contains a few snippets from some of the presentations.
Promoting Openness in Higher Education: Which Way Now?
Putting a twist on the traditional lecture style presentations that delegates have become accustomed to, Brian Lamb, from the Office of Learning Technology, led an open discussion at the 2009 Canadian e-Learning Conference. The discussion revolved around the open education movement as well as particular challenges that are being faced.
WordPress in Education – Better, Stronger, Faster
The Paper Jam session on WordPress, at the 2009 Canadian e-Learning Conference, addressed the many functions of the open source publishing platform. WordPress can be used as a content management system, and has a user-friendly template system that allows the user to rearrange their pages without editing traditional computer code.
Digital Tattoo: Highly Visible and Hard to Remove
The Digital Tattoo project was designed with the clear goal “to help students become aware of their rights and responsibilities as creators and consumers of digital information in their personal, academic, and professional lives”.
Personal Learning Environments: What do Students Think?
Interest in the concept of personal learning environments (PLE) began in the late 1990s as new technologies made it easier for learners to take control of and manage their own learning experiences. Although much has been written about PLEs in scholarly journals and professional articles, very little has been heard from students on this topic – until now.
