Open education. Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University. Former Twitter user. Find me on Mastodon - @irwindev@scholar.social
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An amazing story, one that @TRUOpenLearning @thompsonriversu deserve to be proud of. #openlearning #openeducation #highered
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This, circulating on That Site That Shall Not Be Named. My top read for 2022, for multiple reasons.
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Today we gather in vigil for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, marking the anniversary of the murder of 14 young women at Polytechnique Montréal: fal.cn/3udgt
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Heartening news out of Germany. Proctorio has lost a major client. @TU_Muenchen (whose logo used to be on Proctorio's website) announces that "the exam option "proctoring with Proctorio" is no longer available". They guarantee a face-to-face alternative. prolehre.tum.de/en/prolehre/…
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I encourage folks here to pop over to the Fediverse. To do that you can joinmastodon.org
This needs to go into the next edition of Metaphors @mweller
Great update and thanks for the notice about SFU!
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We have a Special Spooky Roundup headed your way! 👻 Check out what we've been up to this month: roundup.reclaimhosting.com/a…
Wow!
The perfect way to wrap-up our Data Smart Schools project! It was wonderful to discuss the datafication of schools and schooling today with @Neil_Selwyn @lucipangrazio @lyndsayg @juliane_jarke @irzakhar. Live illustrations of the discussions by @JennyLeonardArt! Thank you all!
As a customer I didn't expect @musiciansfriend to be such a spammy company but the promo emails keep flooding in, even after multiple unsubscribes. Disappointing.
Good to see a deep dive into multiple possible meanings of and problems with learner “engagement”
Next in my series of posts on #OnlineEngagement in the #HE literature: chaos, controversy and critique: artofelearning.org/2022/10/2… #i_he2022 #OpenThesis #OpenDissertation @GOGN_OER
In case there's any doubt that Halloween is a monster sugar marketing machine...
ALT Pallets of boxes of halloween candy stacked in a supermarket aisle
Hard to put into words how good this is.
Across Latin America, a generation of young sound artists and producers are unsettling Eurocentric assumptions about the boundaries of ambient music
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“The Alberta Government appears to be following Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Ukraine: escalate and appropriate.”
Alberta govt. fires Athabasca University Board members over dispute re. locating staff in the town. For my comments see: tonybates.ca/2022/10/06/the-… Only in Alberta!
Nice flip: “The failure [during the pandemic] was in the robustness of face to face education, and yet that is the model that must be adhered to in the view of many.”
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As I start the Professional Program in Open Education at @KwantlenU, I thought I would bring this old blog back to life and share what I am working on. #OER #openeducation eltreflections.com/2022/10/0…
