Next post, I will deal with one of the main barriers to the implementation of blended learning: the fear that providing online content will lead to a drop in student lecture attendance or performance. However, the other side of the coin is that the academics who populate our universities simply do not want to have to learn new technologies to use in their teaching. In a bizarre state of affairs, those researchers who are at the forefront of the most technological fields consider themselves incapable of learning a basic piece of software. I’m going to try to make it clear how easy these tools can be to use, so that there are no such excuses! All of these examples will be based around the provision of online lecture recordings.Read More »
Category: Teaching methods
Open Education I: Why is open access to education important?
I have blogged before about why I feel that open access to research and educational materials is an important step forward for society. This promotes the learning of those who struggle to access conventional learning modalities (e.g. lower socioeconomic groups who are traditionally excluded from universities) and those who are simply casually interested in learning something new without the need to commit to long-term and expensive courses. The release of data also helps to facilitate the verification of findings in the scientific sphere to avoid the problems associated with scientific publishing.
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