We are currently curating resources to explain and support the use of Creative Commons in educational practice. However, we have put some helpful resources here so you can start to explore creative commons resources and enhance your teaching and learning materials and engage students in the processes of remixing and… Continue reading
Introduction: The 21st century learner Arguably, the modern learner is not the same as the generations that went before them. Whether this is explained by the notion of young people being digital natives in terms of their engagement and use of technology (Prensky 2001) or simply that the instruments of… Continue reading
Introduction Social interaction and social construction of knowledge are fundamental principles of modern higher education. The ability of web 2.0 technologies and social media to facilitate the formation of these networks, develop and nurture connections within a community and maintain a current and relevant personal web presence for individuals is… Continue reading
The need for ‘pedagogy 2.0’ There have been a number of calls within the literature for a new pedagogy. A pedagogy that embeds the new skills of learners in collaboration, content making, remixing and repurposing, interaction, identity and sharing into a curriculum that encourages social interaction, supports the development of… Continue reading
Introduction: shades of open Openness in education is usually evidenced through Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the ‘invasion’ of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course, in case you had somehow missed this). The debate has been widened in recent years to consider the full meaning of open in an educational… Continue reading