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Making sense of open educational resources

This is the second of five posts on open education from Chapter 10 of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. The...

What do we mean by ‘open’ in education?

"I'm just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education" Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize speech, 2014 This is the...

Desperately seeking the unique pedagogical characteristics of face-to-face teaching

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This is the fourth of five posts on choosing modes of delivery for my online open textbook Teaching in a Digital Age. The post...

Mode of delivery: Learners as a determining factor

This is the third of five posts on choosing between different modes of delivery as part of Chapter 10 for my online open textbook,...

Deciding on modes of delivery

This is the first of a series of five posts that look at the following: deciding whether a whole course or program should be offered wholly...

39 questions to ask when choosing media for teaching and learning

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Yeah, 39 questions is a lot, but then there is a lot of things to take into consideration. I pulled together the key questions for consideration...

Deciding on appropriate media for teaching and learning

This is the final section of Chapter 9, Choosing and using media in education, for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age....

Balancing the use of social media and privacy protection in online learning

This is the last of the SECTIONS criteria for selecting media for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital World. The last 'S'...

Why organisational issues are critical for media selection

I'm getting to the end of my chapter on media selection, based on the SECTIONS model. I discuss the 'O' for organisational issues briefly....

A new way to look at the costs of digital media in education

I said it was going to be fun looking at the costs of digital media in education, but it wasn't. When I came to...