Category: Open Education
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Lesesucht
Two weeks ago I went to a conference organized by Stichting Lezen, the Dutch organization for reading promotion. The conference was entitled Reading and watching and focused on the differences between the written word and the image: what does the written word have that images don’t? The keynote speaker was Hungarian writer György Konrád, who…
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Edupunk
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTlescIvW0&feature=related] I found this video by Tony Hirst on the Internet today, and it gives a very ‘hip’, though to my opinion also good overview of the emergence of new ideas about opening up information in the educational sphere. The video is connected to the Edupunk approach to teaching and learning practices. Edupunk is…