Author Archives: Brian

About Brian

I am a Strategist and Discoordinator with UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. My main blogging space is Abject Learning, and I sporadically update a short bio with publications and presentations over there as well...

Come to an Open Education party this September

So David Wiley has dropped the needle on this year’s Open Education Conference, September 26-28: For the first several years our field focused on content production and content licensing. Today, there are thousands of full university courses and tens of … Continue reading

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Disintegrated thoughts on content integration and remix

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } suedzentrale – graffiti I, originally uploaded by NeonCoil. The following points are somehow connected for me, … Continue reading

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And He Rocks!

Whoops, hollers, high-fives, maybe even a manly virtual hug to Andy Rush at University of Mary Washington for his triumph integrating the styles of WordPress and MediaWiki so seamlessly. Not only great work in itself, but something that gives the … Continue reading

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OER discussion update…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } XIXth Century Close Encounters of the Third Kind, originally uploaded by Feuillu. Thanks to the friends … Continue reading

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Join the discussion: can open educators transform teaching and learning?

To their credit, the organizers of the OER meeting I’m at have recognised that there is an overflow of challenging ideas here, and they have proposed trashing reworking tomorrow’s agenda to allow for more open discussion of the key questions … Continue reading

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Openly abject…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The $100 laptop!, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. … to be amongst many smart and idealistic peers … Continue reading

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An online video party after all

So we delivered the Web 2.0 Online Learning Video Awards for the NMC conference a couple hours ago, and it was an absolute blast to do. We ended up using MediaWiki for our presentation space, you can check it out … Continue reading

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My blog can bring governments to their knees, quaking with fear…

It might as well be a Monday morning ritual — I have to apologise to my housemates and houseguests for my boorish behaviour the previous Friday night. Everyone else had gone to bed, I was reviewing the many awesome entries … Continue reading

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And MediaWiki shall open content dominion over all…

It’s hard not to get excited by some of the recent developments with MediaWiki lately. I finally started to wake up to the potential when Andy Rush blogged about a nifty online video extension, and all the other third-party extensions … Continue reading

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What’s your favorite (educational) online video? Nominations are open!

Update: thanks for the response to this post, collected at http://video.learningparty.net – feel free to add more clips to the master list of nominations. As Northern Voice was wrapping up, Jim Groom, D’Arcy Norman and myself got talking about fun … Continue reading

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