Welcome to week eleven of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional technologies in…
Welcome to week nine of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional technologies in…
Welcome to week four of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional…
TL;DR: In this post I provide an overview of the work conducted on the web literacy map learning pathways, specifically the privacy pathway and associated badges. At the bottom of the post I give the link to review the notes from the #openbadges call on 1/28/2015. Work on the web literacy map is progressing at a…
TL:DR Version: This blog post shares advice on how to think through and develop an online learning hub, or front door for your digital identity. Over the past couple of years I’ve worked with educators to create and curate their online brand. Most of the time I guide teachers to build up their own…
The first group of participants in the #WALKMYWORLD project has come and gone. In their path is the residue of time spent connecting, creating, and sharing in online spaces. Currently we have different groups of individuals going back and finishing their walk, or greeting new participants as they make their way through. It is still…
I learned a tough lesson yesterday. As I’ve detailed here on this blog, I’ve been involved in developing an open badge initiative to partner up with my ORMS model and MOOC. Over the past couple of months we’ve developed a series of open badges and uploaded them into badges.mozilla.org. Yesterday I went to my MOOC…
I had the opportunity this morning to “speak” to a great group of students in the Two Summers Program at UConn. I previously taught in the program and like to maintain connections with the faculty and students in the program. For this talk I video conferenced in using a Google Hangout on Air, and used…
TL;DR version: This blog post shares feedback from a meeting to discuss open badge systems and my thoughts & reflections as we develop our own open badge system. We’ve been undergoing a long process of investigating the possibility of developing and implementing an open badging system for use in some of programs here at the university. This…
One strand of current dialogue online and in the blogosphere revolves around the subject of Open Badges and their use in education. Over the past year I have been investigating the use of Open Badges in education and their possible use in a higher education program. There are challenges and opportunities involved in bringing an…