Exploring the Social Web as an Educator
For Christina Hendrics the value of “peer to peer connecting is partly that students will learn a lot not just from what they hear from other people but from what they tell to other people. Conversations with other students bring such different perspectives and interpretations.”
Sustainable Forest Management Open Courses
A series of self-directed courses on sustainable forest management (SFM) for the Asian-Pacific region. The courses are intended to enable senior forestry students, young faculty and mid-career professionals to improve their knowledge of SFM flexibly.
Engaging the General Public Through Open
Maja Krzic: “If we don’t evolve, if we don’t try to do new things, we are trapped in how our discipline is taught and regarded. So I am hopeful that [open education] will continue to grow in popularity and use in my discipline.”
ENGL470D CanLit Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
UBC’s English 470D (Canadian Studies), focuses on the intersection of Canadian Literature and Web 2.0…
Open Dialogues: How to do open courses
Gregor Kiczales, professor of computer science and Senior Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, has been doing open since before it was called open…