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Designing for Open: Strategies and Processes

Posted on November 9, 2020 by geoffcain

Open Education Conference • Nov.9-13, 2020 • Virtual Presentation Description In this session, participants will learn about the different roles that instructional designers, faculty course developers, and other education professionals can play in the advocacy and promotion of OER and … Continue reading →

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Why Connectivism is a Learning Theory

Posted on April 28, 2014 by geoffcain

Domains of major fields of physics (Photo credit: Wikipedia) David Wiley recently made a comment on his blog, in response to a very succinct posting by Stephen Downes, that the learning theory Connectivism, though he is sympathetic to it, was … Continue reading →

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Open Ed 13: How to Make It Work for Faculty: A study of how Washington Community and Technical Colleges Use Oer

Posted on November 7, 2013 by geoffcain

Boyoung Chae and Connie Broughton discuss the Open Course Library for Washington State’s   Community and Technical Colleges. “While new open educational resources are being continuously created, little data exists on how faculty in higher education actually use and perceive open … Continue reading →

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Open Ed 13: Using Open Badges and an Open Course to Enhance & Extend Learning

Posted on November 6, 2013 by geoffcain

Daniel Randall, Buck Harrison, Dr. Richard West, and Garrett R. Hickman from Brigham Young University. “We will present our design for an open badge system currently in use in an undergraduate technology course for education majors. Our design is an … Continue reading →

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MOOCs and Connectivist Instructional Design

Posted on October 27, 2012 by geoffcain

I am very interested in the instructional design of MOOCs. While I was working at Tacoma Community College, I co-taught a course called “Health Information Management 101.” The purpose of the course was to introduce health information management students to … Continue reading →

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Assessment and Accreditation of an OER Learner

Posted on October 26, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaSpeakers: Rory McGreal, Wayne MacintoshLearners accessing OER can acquire knowledge formally or informally. This project reports on assessment and accreditation policies worldwide. A major function of colleges and universities is to validate and credentialise learning by conferring qualifications … Continue reading →

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Six Factors Driving Online Enrollments

Posted on October 14, 2011 by geoffcain

Image by proper dave via FlickrThis was the article that I wrote for the Times-Standard‘s Tech Beat: Many students are taking online classes at College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University. Even though online learning is called “distance learning,” … Continue reading →

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Wikis – More than Text and Context

Posted on June 15, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaPresenter(s):Amber Evans (Virgina Tech)M. Aaron Bond (Virginia Tech)Karen Swenson (Virginia Tech)Description: Dr. Karen Swenson, a 2010 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award finalist, uses the Sakai wiki with her students to “think about important issues presented through works of … Continue reading →

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Faculty Development: It is more than technology training!

Posted on June 14, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI am interested in this because we have a lot of issues around professional development at College of the Redwoods. At Hopkins, Denille works in a graduate engineering program. The teachers are adjunct. She has 9 on staff. … Continue reading →

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The Japanese Earthquake: New Roles for Social Media

Posted on March 13, 2011 by geoffcain

Image via WikipediaI think we should all be getting now how important social media has become in politics (Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Wisconsin, etc.) and in natural disasters such as Haiti and now with Japan. The earthquake and tsunami are terrible disasters … Continue reading →

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