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Destination Open: weaving my own way and building my own place
Well, I’m glad to say I think I’m making progress on my quest to more fully understand the notion of open and the triad of open-related courses that I’m weaving my way through seems to be shaping up...
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My Open Tour: a critical turn
Amongst several concepts of openness that Open Knowledge MOOC has turned its attention to recently is that of open scholarship, asking us to consider how the new principles of openness, as facilitated...
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Open, with care… and vulnerability.
My enquiry into what exactly the notion of open and openness entails seems to almost have taken me back to the starting point, the starting point not only of this particular chapter of enquiry but also...
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Look out: innovation in open networked learning ahead #MSLOC430
This post is going to be a bit of a mashup. Mainly because I haven’t blogged in a while and I want to throw a few crumbs of learning gleaned in the meantime into the mix. See what comes up. I’ve been...
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A Community of Inquiry: initial inquiry (from the business end)
This blog post is simply a review of what I’ve been reading as I race to catch up and get my head around all that’s been going on in Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning #MSLOC430 in...
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Developing Work Out Loud Habits and Measuring Up
I seem to have fallen out of the blogging habit recently. That’s not to say that I’ve not been learning or doing other stuff; I have. It’s just that at the start of the year I relocated back to England...
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A Grand Day Out Talking Autonomous Learning
Earlier this week I attended the CIPD L&D Show in London. Apart from the Learning and Skills exhibition that I attended earlier in the year, it’s the first event I’ve attended where the learning...
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Developing the ‘vitamin habit’ for learning.
Lordy, Lord. I’m all over the place in terms of my learning at the moment. In the last 6 months I’ve not only relocated but I’ve also swapped from a lifetime of using a Windows PC to using a Mac. Why I...
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Literacy: not a desk job, but an identity job.
It’s funny where an image can take you and what associations pop into your head. Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth, egged on by Amy Burvall @Amyburvall, have unleashed a bit of a blogging sensation this week...
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Celebrate success, acknowledge support – the Camino way.
Check this! I just finished walking over 1200km from Cadiz in Southern Spain to Santiago de Compostella in North West Spain. In a venture that took 5 trips to make the distance, I just walked 210km in...
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Networks: a many splendid thing #WOLweek
Haven’t blogged in a while. Haven’t blogged regularly for quite a while. Well, here’s hoping things are gonna change, especially as I’m sold on the idea of working as openly and as transparently as...
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Body Combat: Metaphor for Open Ed Practice & Critical Advocacy #OER17...
Just wondering what’s body combat? Click here I’m really looking forward to attending #OER17 next week and participating in the conversation about openness in education, particularly as there’s an...
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Thinking critically about women & care relative to openness #oer17 #critoep...
This week I attended the #OER17 conference where the theme was ‘The Politics of Open’, followed by a BERA EdTech SIG seminar entitled ‘Critical and Theoretical Approaches to EdTech Research‘. Both...
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An open reply, realisations and a request #selfoer #CR2518
This post is first of all a reply to Suzan Koseoglu’s recent post Boundaries of Openness, which continues the conversation about the self as an open educational resource, #selfOER, that she and Maha...
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My posthuman, possibly cyborg, awakening.
Well, this penny has taken an awfully long time to drop!! But I guess you don’t go around talking about philosophical paradigms everyday of the week. It’s just when you’re engaged in PhD research...
View ArticleSceptics and heretics welcome? #breakopen #OER18 #OEGlobal18
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about open education engaging with critical perspectives. Hallelujah I say because we really do need to understand more deeply how digital and networked technologies...
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A touch of class #personalALTC #femedtech #critoep
Tama66 / Pixabay Apologies. This post is not formatted properly with paragraph spacing and hyperlinks. I’m up a mountain in Bulgaria and have been tapping away on my iPhone to write this post. It has...
View ArticleWarning and Wearing Purple #OER19
This was written as a guest post for OER19 conference. This post is my lead into OER19. It outlines my own presentation at the conference and also introduces the work of Irina Rets. I thought it would...
View ArticleEnacting the Value of Openness by Sharing #OER19
(and by doing ‘free’ labour). This post presents the script of my #OER19 presentation and curates links to the recording and to the slides. The Script Oh, it was a 20 min presentation, so it’s gonna...
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My Quilt of Learning #OER19.
Image: Frances Bell on Flick. From the album: ‘ Evolution of a Quilt.’ I got sidetracked before I started writing this post; that is, my #OER19 reflective post. I knew I wanted to write about the...
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