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Martin Weller’s blog, The Ed Techie, was the first technology blog that I followed and he’s a constant stream of intrestingness. His latest post is really valuable for anyone interested in ed-tech generally, but also open educational models specifically. He has done interviews with a number of OU luminaries (Martin Bean, Grainne Conole, Andrew Law and Simon Buckinham-Shum) and basically asked them 4 questions:
- What are the benefits of technology for learning?
- What are the interesting areas around openness at the moment?
- Are there any interesting trends we should watch over the next few years?
- What do you think about the open, online approach of the conference?
The interviews are between 8 and 15 minutes long each.
I was particularly interested in Grainne Conole’s point about moving towards more open models of research and blogging ideas in progress to get the communities input rather than waiting to publish them in closed journals.
The conference is running next week on the 22nd and 23rd June and he’s posted the agenda here. Follow Martin’s blog and his Tweets for more info.
PS: Trying to embed this playlist was an unexpected hassle. Ended up having to go into the source code of Martin’s blog and copying the embed code from there. Thanks to Steve for his help. Do you know an easier way?
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It’s easy to embed your own YouTube playlists (http://bit.ly/dwPQwc), but not those created by other people as far as I can see. Perhaps their intention is that you make your own copy of the playlist to embed, although that still seems to require adding the videos individually.
Surely we’re missing something?
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