A3: OPEN AND MOBILE WORLD, AND ITS BEACONS

A3: OPEN AND MOBILE WORLD, AND ITS BEACONS

Open and Mobile World and Its Beacons My A3 grew up from an ETEC 523 Week 3 Mobile Culture/Social Media Ethics focus, through the topic of open and mobile learning under the influence of our brilliant professor and available UBC resources, and turned into something technologically philosophical. Firstly, the following observations of my ETEC 523 […]

Week Eight A2: MOOC – Theory and Practice

Week Eight A2: MOOC – Theory and Practice

Introduction Dear readers, According to the report ““Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Market – Forecasts from 2022 to 2027”, COVID-19 had a positive impact on the MOOC market, and free online educational products have exploded in numbers, platforms, and target audiences. No longer are they just Higher Education academic courses (although this is still the […]

A1: Facebook for Learning Foreign Writing

A1: Facebook for Learning Foreign Writing

A1: FACEBOOK FOR LEARNING FOREIGN WRITING I apologize for this rather quickly built and simple project, but I thought about the value of asynchronous collaborative tools for English writing after I saw “Mobile collaboration” project (thank you, Vithu and Robyn!) a week ago, so I utilized what was available. My idea is that any asynchronous […]

Higher Education: Mobility vs Stability

Higher Education: Mobility vs Stability

HIGHER EDUCATION: MOBILITY VS STABILITY I am wondering what I will do without this course – I got used to reading through a lot of diverse posts, and without this weekly entertainment, my life will be bleak, I am afraid. I cannot say that I have read everything in “Mobile Education”, but I am pretty […]

W03: Who Can Be Trusted?

W03: Who Can Be Trusted?

W03: Who Can Be Trusted? Another very pleasant week of reading and thinking. I am very grateful for being here. I just wish I had three heads to be able to read everything! As it is, Social Narrative kept my attention, and I appreciated my colleagues’ consideration toward diversity of social media, its peculiarities, influence, […]

My Optimism – Anna

My Optimism – Anna

Dear groupmates, Hello from Toronto! I am Anna with an educational background – was once a researcher, a professor, and an administrator in a big and popular East Ukrainian university with more than 20 thousand students. My beloved HEI was unfortunately lost long time ago, in 2014, and this is why I am in Canada. […]