Facebook for teaching and learning

For Barcelona/Spain-based Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Max Senges, Thomas Praus and I write a blog on technological trends and innovation in education. In the blog - called UOC Fórum Innovació - we look at the opportunities social media and web 2.0 technologies offer for education in universities and other fields.
We’ve been writing [...]

Global map of Open Educational Resources

Heather Fond (blog), director of iCommons, created this map of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the most notable activists and organizations in the field. This is pretty awesome - check it out:
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I just added Creative Commons International - who else is missing? If you know any organization or activist, please add them to [...]

Workshop on social media in higher education (follow-up)

As mentioned before, earlier this week I had the chance to hold a workshop on social media in higher education at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). (Slides below or on Slideshare). It was a great group, very active and engaged despite their completely different backgrounds and the language barrier. (Thanks guys!)
Special thanks, again, to Josep [...]

Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education

Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, [...]