open thinking

As part of the open graduate course discussed in my last post, I have put out a call for microlectures to be included as a resource on the course wiki.
From the wiki:
As an experiment in this course, I am attempting to solicit short, five minute or less, recorded microlectures that will benefit the course [...]

I will be facilitating an open access graduate course this Fall titled EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education. I expect about 15-20 registered (for credit) students, but I am opening up the experience to all other interested not-for-credit participants. This will be the third time I have run the course, and it has been [...]

I am very fortunate to have been asked to teach a seminar this summer with UBC: Okanagan in Kelowna, BC, as part of their Summer Institute in Education. The seminar runs from July 27 – July 31, and I will have 15 hours in total. I am looking forward to meeting my new students, learning [...]

The learning continues in EC&I 831, and since I haven’t had much time to blog, I though I’d offer a 2-for-1 post with links to the most recent presentations for the course.
On January 27, I offered a session on the Age of Social Learning. The full Elluminate session is found here, and my slide deck [...]

I will teaching two open online courses next semester, and I have been brainstorming a number of ways to do things a bit differently. In both courses, students will go through the process of forming their own personal learning networking. “Their own” is key here and is something I have been struggling with. In the [...]