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Kim Gibson Post 1

• 4 June 2018, 11:06 PM

Reflecting on Open Themes at the University of Alberta

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bx5GAp6qEO0rnbzmvADAnG_tenZ5TPDk/view?usp=sharing


I got a little carried away with the reflection and diagram activity. The short of it is, I am heavily involved in eLearning at my institution, and that connects to a lot of Open concepts in play today. I'm interested in seeing more principles of open learning come alive in our online learning environments (ie. students and instructors learn together and together create OER). I think that is a great hotbed of growth for the open community.

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Kim Gibson Post 2 in reply to 1

• 5 June 2018, 3:42 PM

Updated link to diagram

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bx5GAp6qEO0rnbzmvADAnG_tenZ5TPDk/view?usp=sharing 

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Irwin Devries Post 3 in reply to 2

• 5 June 2018, 4:24 PM • Edited by the author on 5 June 2018, 4:26 PM

Kim thanks for sharing your thoughts as expressed in your diagram. I would have to agree, openness in education is an ideal that's never fully achievable; and I guess that's the nature of ideals - they're something we strive toward in the direction of an ever-moving horizon. The good news is we also can ground these ideals in practices that cut across all we do as educators, something that's exemplified in your diagram. As you say, open practice "changes how our classrooms operate, how we teach, and how we learn." I like how you point out the connection between learning environments, teaching, and learning here. They're all part of openness.