Lab Activities in Education

<Laboratory E-Learning Activities in Science Education> What? In a small group, I shared about my project. The topic of my project is laboratory E-learning activities. The overall content mentions the meaning of laboratory activities in science education and discusses the… Continue Reading →

<DISTRIBUTED/ONLINE LEARNING> MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) (Image by UCT Language Centre) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is very impressive, perhaps very common form of online class. McAuley, Stewart, Siemens, and Cormier (2010) demonstrated the MOOC that “MOOC builds on… Continue Reading →

<Building Learning Communities Between Remote Classrooms Using Synchronous and Asynchronous Technology> What? This group discussed what conditions students in different environments should consider in forming synchronous and asynchronous learning communities. As a teacher of the future, I believe that the… Continue Reading →

<LOOKING TO THE FUTURE> OER (Open Educational Resources) (Image by iLearnCollaborative) In Stephen Downes’s (2019) document defined the traditional open educational resources which are “as educational contents that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that… Continue Reading →

<CHALLENGES AND ISSUES IN OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED EDUCATION> Caines, A., & Glass, E. (2019, Fall). Education before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy. EDUCAUSE Review, 54(4). Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/10/education-before-regulation-empowering-students-to-question-their-data-privacy What? This document addresses the importance of personal information… Continue Reading →

<THE OTHER OPENS (SCHOLARSHIP, DATA, OPEN ONLINE COURSES, RESEARCH)> Atenas, J., Havemann, L., & Priego, E. (2015). Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Towards Transversal Skills and Global Citizenship. Open Praxis, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.7.4.233 What? This literature explains how open data… Continue Reading →

<OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND LEARNING DESIGN> Shé Ní, C., Farrell, O., Brunton, J., Costello, E., Donlon, E., Trevaskis, S., & Eccles, S. (2019). Teaching online is different: Critical perspectives from the literature. Retrieved from Dublin City University website: https://openteach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Teaching-online-is-different.pdf What?… Continue Reading →

<OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES> Conole, G., & Brown, M. (2018). Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement. Journal of Learning for Development – JL4D, 5(3). Retrieved from http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/314 What? In this article, I think about who open education is for,… Continue Reading →

<HISTORY OF OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING> Weller, M. (2018, August). Twenty Years of Edtech. EDUCAUSE Review, 53(4). Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/7/twenty-years-of-edtech What? This article covers the history of EdTech’s 20 years from the beginning of EdTech to the present. First of… Continue Reading →

(TED Ideas worth spreading, 2012) Many science teachers face many problems at school. The most perplexing of them is that students do not understand scientific concepts. Science teachers need a more familiar approach. The emphasis in the above video is… Continue Reading →