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• Aggregate– Filter, select and gather information

meaningful to the individual,

• Remix– Interpret this information bringing

one’s own perspective and insights,

• Repurpose– Refashion it to suit individual

purposes, and then

• Feed forward– Share it with others, to learn from

each otherThe other kind of MOOC embraces a simple business ideology, and as such is almost the antithesis to [this] kind.Peter Sloep http://bit.ly/LBwImp

• Explicit pedagogical perspective– Social constructivist, dialogic,

actor networks

• Distributed, OS platform– WordPress, Moodle, Wikis

• Intentional social media conversations

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Open Academic Practice

– “The course aims to develop and extend your knowledge, understanding and skills of teaching and learning in higher education.”– “A key principle of the course is learner

autonomy”– “… encourage participant interaction

and open sharing of resources, learning, thoughts and ideas.”

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• Over 200 signed up• 60 participated throughout the

6 weeks the course ran• 14 undertook the assessment

and received a certificate. • Participants were from 24

different countries including Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, as well as many European countries &US.

Eval

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This MOOC surpassed my expectations in terms of

content and engagement. The "live virtual classrooms" really made the difference.

It was a challenging as much as enriching experience. Challenging because it was the first time for me to engage with a MOOC…; enriching because I learnt a lot

from the experience on a number of different levels

It was illuminating and empowering at the

same time to learn in such a clear way the

value of CPD, reflection and what

professionalism means.

As I am new to the MOOC learning, I was at first a bit lost as

it was such a multi-channel learning, incorporating listening, reading, discussion, thinking all

most at the same time

Having taken a number of MOOCs

this one encouraged my participation at a

more thoughtful level than previous

sessions.

assessed students

were the real students and we other on the border

In retrospect it all worked well but I

remember feeling at the time a bit lost.

I don't like the use of different sites - it is very

confusing.

The micro teach was not clear and the

organisation was a little

late

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Open academic practice is an

element of best academic practice.

If we want lecturers and institutions

to be among the world’s leaders, we

must adopt open academic practices

on an open academic platform.

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