Open minds, open tools, open education
These are the slides from our first session of the Mozilla Open Education course. As you can see, this is a truly inspired project that combines big picture vision (open education as a movement) with practical outcomes (using Mozilla/CC to create applied tools and resources) supported and realised by a great group of open minded educators. But great ideas are nothing if they aren’t transformed into action (Paolo Freire’s idea of “praxis”). I have proposed the following project as my own goal and outcome:
“I’d like to examine how these tools could help educators to assess largely digitized assignments (like blogs). I currently use a wiki to collect and evaluate my student’s blogs. Ideally, I’d like some mechanism to bookmark and easily assess digital works in a way that would provide fields for assessment criteria as well as highlighting items on the page for the student. I’m especially interested in Open Source tools as an alternative to clunky, top down, proprietary edu ware that currently dominates our institutions.”
In the coming weeks, I’ll post more about my emerging insights and collaborations within this exciting course.
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