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#COER13 - How to create OER

Reblogged from Sylvia's Blog: The third #COER week is about creating own Open Educational Resources. I am lagging somehow behind, but this is a familiar condition for me, reminding me on my MAODE study, where I always had the feeling

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Master of Arts – Open and Distance Education

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13 Learning Theories for e-learning

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Every bit of you contributes to your learning experience

When it comes to learning, everything matters – epecially the tips of your toes. ‘Human learning is the combination of processes throughout a lifetime whereby the whole person – body (genetic, physical and biological) and mind (knowledge, skills, attitudes, values,

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If you study the Open University’s Masters in Open and Distance Education a reading list after three years might look like this

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I LOVE the way the brain will throw you a googlie. It’s why we’re human.

googlie.

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When something important to me is about to come to an end I tend to lash out to make the parting of ways less uncomfortable.

I sense with OU graduation looming while this bridging module trundles on to who knows what that I will pretend I’m fed up and I don’t care. But I do. So I’ll try to bite my lip over the next

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When I think if learning, I think of the minuscule intricacies of the component parts of the brain and at the same time the immense vastness of the known universe.

As humans we are eager to understand everything. It seems appropriate to marry neuroscience with astrophysics, like brackets that enclose everything. From a learning point of view then ask as you look at a person or group of people, ‘what

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Education as a service: Moocs, ODL and production of knowledge.

Reblogged from About Education, Economics and Policy: As I have argued elsewhere, education resembles a service more than a product. The characteristics of a service are that production and consumption are simultaneously. Yet, education is special, in the sense that

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I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make a difference’

Fig. 1. Testing ahead of an MBA Webinar I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make a difference’ – the learning bug has set off a tempest in my brain Just as well

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