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Flipping Lectures!

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Last week I tuned in to JISC/HEA Video in Teaching and Learning Webinar series for an Adobe Connect session on Flipping the lecture. I’ve mentioned the flipping lecture idea before and was keen to hear more. The webinar was presented by Carl Gombrich, a lecturer at UCL. Carl, a self proclaimed ‘late started’ when it [...]

Multiplying the Benefit: Open Teaching

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In Olympics speak … I think I’m on the home stretch now with the #ioe12 Introduction to Openness in Education MOOC. The Open Teaching module is a strange one in that it reflects on the process of open teaching (and learning) – something that I am participating in by taking part in this MOOC and [...]

Badge On: Open Assessment

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I began the #ioe12 open assessment module by watching the Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation YouTube video. The video is a snappy introduction to the concept of open badges with endorsement for them from a number of senior educationalists/academics and CEOs. “Digital badges will make the accomplishments and experiences of individuals, in online [...]

Remote Working Props

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I enjoyed reading the MSNBC article on 10 mistakes everyone makes working from home by Meghan Casserly. Many of Megan’s ideas are come from the new book by executive coach and author Debra Benton – the Virtual Executive. Debra Benton introduces the idea of ‘props’ – i.e. the stuff you have lying around your desk [...]

Convincing your Employer to Let you Telecommute Permanently

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We haven’t had a guest post for a while so I’m pleased to offer this one from Katheryn Rivas. Katheryn is an avid blogger whose true calling is researching and exploring the future of learning. For comments and questions, she can be reached at katherynrivas87@gmail.com. Katheryn is from Texas and has done her BA from [...]

Open Business Models

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At first sight the penultimate Introduction to Openness in Education #ioe12 module on Open Business Models looks like one of the drearier ones, no videos to kick off with and just a long list of papers written by John Wiley and friends. Business isn’t really my thing but I am generally interested in ‘how stuff [...]

Visualising Remote Working Data

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Next week I will be at the Institutional Web Management Workshop talking about Big and Small Web Data. One area that I intend to take a look at is data visualisation. I was really pleased to see this infographic on remote working from LifeSize. Although it is US focused I think it still shows some [...]

Key Online Collaboration Tools

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While I am away at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop being held in Edinburgh we have a guest post looking at some of the current key online collaboration tools. Matt Ambrose is a freelance copywriter who’s been working remotely for clients for over six year, so understands the benefits and challenges first hand of [...]

Data Visualisation at IWMW12

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I’ve just returned from my favourite conference of the year – the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012. It was even better this year as I wasn’t involved in the organisation!! Though I did help sessions and chairing. A quick aside about the event amplification… As usual the event was streamed, and Kirsty and Rich Pitkin [...]

Open Policy: the Opposite of Open is Broken

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The opening resource for the Open Policy #ioe12 module is a video of Cable Green, Director of Global Learning; Creative Commons, giving the keynote at ALN 2011. Cable is “interested in questioning current policy and seeing if we can do a little better”. Cable makes the argument that everyone in world can obtain the education [...]

Cheerio on Chatzy

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Saying farewell to a colleague is never easy and it’s always good to have a little drink in their honour. On Friday we had a ‘virtual leaving do’ for a colleague and friend of mine: Ed Bremner. I first worked with Ed in 2003 when he was a staff member at TASI (Technical Advisory Service [...]

IOE12 Badge Time?

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In January this year I spotted a tweet by a colleague who had decided to try out the Introduction to Openness in Education (#ioe12) MOOC (Massively Open Online Course). The course content sounded interesting and it provided me with a free and easy way to try online learning, so I decided to give it a [...]

Best Practices for Event Amplification Report

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Things have been a little hectic around here and I managed to forget to mention the Best Practices for Event Amplification Report which has recently been released. The report, written by Kirsty Pitkin and Paul Shabajee is a deliverable for the Greening Events II project and I was originally down as an author, unfortunately other [...]

More Remote Worker Visualisations

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I mentioned this infographic on remote working from LifeSize a few weeks back. I’ve now found another one, this time from Smartfile. . I’m storing all my favourite infographics and data visualisations on Pinterest. I also have a Pinterest folder for remote working images. Filed under: work/life Tagged: infographics

The Unexpected Disadvantages of Remote Working

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Time for a guest blog post… A freelance blogger with a strong work ethic, Angelita Williams lives for scooping the next big story. She grew up idolising the women in journalism who paved the way for future generations, so that people like her could make a living by writing current events. Angelita has traveled around [...]

Badgeless after IOE12…

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The Open University have recently released a report on Innovating Pedagogy exploring “new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world“. The report quite rightly contains sections on MOOCs and Badges to accredit learning. Badges are seen as having potentially high impact in the next 2-5 year. “Badges appear to offer a natural [...]

Confusion, Home Working and Olympic Pride

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Stay away… For many months the government has told us to “stay away” and to try working from home during the Olympics. Transport for London, the mayor of London, National Rail, Department for transport and the Highways Agency have collectively run a ‘Get ahead of the Games‘ campaign encouraging us to plan ahead and avoid [...]

Feeding the Angry Birds in Helsinki

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I’m currently away at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 held in Helsinki, Finland. It’s by far the biggest international conference I’ve been to (over 4,200 delegates from 120 countries) and it’s the longest I’ve been away for work in a long time. I’m here to co-present a paper with my colleague Sarah [...]

Making the Office feel like Home

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Josh Doyle currently works 3 days a week part time at a website company in the not so sunny seaside town of Weston Super Mare, he usually spends the rest of his week doing freelance work for a furniture company called Fit & Furnish. He admits to having a ‘messy office’ but feels it’s really [...]

Why Can’t We All Work from Home?

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Stephanie Brooks mulls over the question in a guest post…. Within the past decade or so, working from home positions have flourished. As internet technology and mobile devices become more advanced and more mainstream, working from home became doable for most anyone. While at one time working online was considered a luxury, today online work [...]
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