[Update] Topic 4

This week’s reading revolved around open education resources (OER’s). I agree that human-centered learning is a perfect platform to experiment with innovative educational resources. The author describes the 5R’s (retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute) characteristics an OER would have. Overall. There is a great shortage of unlicensed and open source materials for students to […]

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Digital Portfolio

Part 1: Evidence and Reflection on Your Learning Throughout this course. I explored the concept of human-centered learning and distributed and open learning. I created blog posts for each area of interest. Essentially, I have learned the benefits and drawbacks of open or distributed learning. Some common methodologies of implementing this kind of education, and […]

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Topic 4

This week’s reading revolved around OER’s. I agree that open learning does not subject to any grading matrix, thus a perfect platform to implement innovative study resources to solely focusing on the learning of students. The author describes the 5R’s characteristics good OER resources would have. Overall. There is a great shortage of unlicensed and […]

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Topic 3

Open pedagogy brings equity to educations; Making educational resources available to the public can encourage individuals to pursue knowledge without the complexity of going to an educational facility or following special guidelines. However, open learning resources are hard to come by. And most importantly, most open learning, unlike distributive learning, is unsupervised and free, thus […]

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Topic 2 Discussion

After the readings, I was amazed by how ‘ancient’ the concept of open learning was. I think the model of Open Classrooms in the UK gives an immense contribution to the community. It also enhances the education level of the citizens by offering accessible resources. Those two factors show the advancement in the quality of […]

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Topic 1 Discussion

Through my readings of the provided materials, I summarized them into two categories. The first one is the adaptions to digital pedagogy. Second is the controversy of connecting students to the internet. I never taught in a big classroom of hundreds of students, rightfully so. So when I was reading “Learning is not a mechanism” […]

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