Today we will start the online activities of “Composing free and open online educational resources” course. We are both very happy and a little bit scared that 68 people have signed up for the course. We hope that all together you will make it an interesting learning experience.
This week you have to write three blog posts. First post should be your personal introduction where you may tell who and where you are, and why you want to take this course. You may also use audio or video to present yourself.
Here you will see short video introductions by us:
On the second blog post you shold reflect on Ilkka Tuomi’s report Open Educational Resources: What they are and why do they matter? and on the third blog post you should write a commentary about open education projects (Open Content Initiative, Connexions, MIT OpenCourseWare, LeMill, Wikiversity).
You can find more detailed guidelines for this week from our Wikiversity page.
In case of questions you may find us in #lemill IRC channel (Teemul and hanspoldoja). Teemu will be online when American people don’t sleep and Hans will be available when Europeans are awake. Of course there are some moments when we are not online. In that case you can e-mail us to teemu.leinonen (at) taik.fi and hans.poldoja (at) taik.fi.
March 4, 2008 at 7:20 am
Hello – thanks for the introduction & I’m quite excited to see what happens in our course. CU
March 4, 2008 at 10:38 am
Hi,
I am Rwagasana Gerald, lecturer at the national university of rwanda (http://www.nur.ac.rw/) and director of the center for instructional technology (http://www.nur.ac.rw/cit/).
This academic year, our University has opted for elearning mode of teaching/learning and has choosen MOODLE as institutional LMS. The center for institutional technology is now training in using LMS for creating courses, etc.
That is the reason why this traing is very important for me.
I was not able to begin yesterday because there was a long power cut ( it happens here!!!). I hope it is not too late for me.
Here we have a very low connection’s speed so that to watch video, you have to wait a long time or when a very few people are connected (after 23h).
rwagasana
March 4, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Hola, Mi nombre es José Luis Granda. Trabajo en el área de virtualización de la educación en la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. También estoy colaborando con la iniciativa EQaula, que busca crear una comunidad de aprendizaje libre.
Estoy muy emocionado de poder compartir este curso con todos, me pongo a su disposición.
Gracias por las instrucciones.
March 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Please, follow the instruction in the Wikiversity course page and do your assignments in your own blog. Thank you!
March 5, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hi I am boni. I am teaching an elementary school in Jakarta, Indonesia. I am anxious in joining the course and also nervous, looking at the amount of work needs to be done. Now I am also persuing my master degree in Education Management. But I have committed to myself to follow and enjoy the learning experience with both of you. I believe that the free and open online educational resources is a must for communication era right now. All the best.
March 5, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Hello all
I am glad to be with you in this course. My name is Noura and I live in Syria/Homs. I work as an administrative worker in Al-Baath University and is interested in gender and social issues. I wish to benefit of this course in my attempt to contribute to social development in my country
March 8, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hi all:
I am Stewjean and I am very excited about participating in the OER cours. Thank you for making it possible. I have learned so much already and we have only done the first week of assignments. I am not a teacher. I volunteered with a community portal in my neighbourhood in New York City – without realizing what that would entail. I intend to create value by delivering stellar information and literacy information to the youths who visit the community center.
Thank you so very much.