[...] experienced this in CCK08: Systems for Supportive Open TeachingJ: I think it more valuable to think about how openness changes the basic praxis of teaching [...]
beth.harris - November 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Interesting post! There is clearly incredible value to be found in co-creating educational resources – and moving away from the lone teacher developing their course. At Smarthistory.org 1 - an art history resource I am developing with Dr. Steven Zucker (we rec ently won an award from Avicom - the multimedia wing of the International Council of Museums - the “gold award” in the web category), we believe that audio and video conversations can be a powerful teaching tool - and the feedback from our students supports this. Students listen to learning taking place - through social interactio n - and by opening up our classrooms, we can only become better teachers. And the question is - as Andy points out - how can we best expand this across institutional and international boundaries.
One question for this blog though - and one I have asked before.
Out of 26 guest bloggers - only 5 are women!
Are we really to believe that there are not very many women thinking about open and online education?
Clearly - the values of open education - of open academic discourse - could only benefit from a diverse community of bloggers.
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