Category Archives: open education

SPAWS: Its all started coming together…

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

Another progress update on my mini project, which is about sharing paradata (user comments, stats etc) from web app stores using a distributed network store (for more info, check out this post). One of my big worries when I started … Continue reading →

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HEAR and Recruitment: Using rich achievement data in recruitment processes

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

Last week I met with representatives from a range of companies and organisations involved in graduate recruitment to discuss potential value from the UK HEAR initiative in a meeting organised by CRA and Critical Thinking. The Higher Education Achievement Report … Continue reading →

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SPAWS: Paradata recipes, identifiers, and starting integration

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

We just had our first advisory group meeting for SPAWS with Fridolin (OU), Sten (KUL) and Daniel (IMC) which has left us with plenty of things to think about. Models for Paradata We had a look at the paradata models … Continue reading →

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Embracing the illegible

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

(Rambling time…. normal service will resume shortly) A couple of years back, Venkat wrote about James Scott’s concept of illegibility: James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines … Continue reading →

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Open Education: The Fifth Network

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

I’ve been reading some of the posts from Amber, David and Lawrie as part of open education week. One thing that strikes me about it all is the similarity to Ivan Illich’s idea of learning webs, which is based on … Continue reading →

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