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Talks / Lost in Disruption? Open Badges

Speakers: Jacqui Speculand & Fiona Harvey Location: The Grass Foreword from Jacqui and Fiona: Open Badges are digital representations of skills and knowledge gained and evidenced by individuals. They can be used for formal and informal education, and are particularly suitable for employability and portfolio evidence. Badges earned can be displayed on the earners social..

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Talks / Lost in Disruption? Reclaiming Innovation: Brian Lamb

Speaker: Brian Lamb Location: The Grass Foreword from Brian: It has been an angst-filled few years for educational technology as a field. The entrenchment of the enterprise virtual learning environment as institutional hegemon. The pounding waves of hype and profit driven innovations keeping educators off-balance, always responding to the latest breathless claims, and fears of..

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Talks / Lost in Disruption? Reclaiming Innovation: Jim Groom

Speaker: Jim Groom Location: The Grass Foreword from Jim: “Knowing our ed-tech history is completely necessary for building an ed-tech future.” - Audrey Watters One of the greatest dangers of the rhetoric around innovation and disruption in EdTech is its ahistoricism. How do we understand the current state of digital culture in higher education as..

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Blog : Reblog: The Reclaiming Innovation Roadshow at Coventry University

24th May 2016
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Reblogged from Jim Groom At the end of April Brian Lamb and I spent three days on the ground at Coventry University. We were cordially invited by the great Daniel Villar-Onrubia given his interest in an EDUCAUSE Review article we wrote back in 2014 titled “Reclaiming Innovation.” I think the polemic Brian started the article with around questions..

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Project : 360 Immersions

16th February 2016
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Overview 360 filming can offer a completely immersive learning experience. Using either a 360 camera or a rig comprised of an array of go-pro cameras, scenarios can be filmed to create an immersive environment that can be used for teaching. Goals To explore the use of 360 filming and editing techniques. The project will explore..

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#disruptivebytes / #disruptivebytes: Open Education Week

Live Stream: Hangouts on Air Location: The Grass   Join the conversation on Twitter today: #openeducationwk | #DisruptEdu | @disrupt_learn   About the session For the Disruptive Media Learning Lab’s contribution to Open Education Week, we will be hosting a Disruptive Bytes that is focused on Open Education. We are thrilled to have Leo Havemann..

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Project : OpenMed

3rd February 2016
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Overview OpenMed is an international project funded under the EU Erasmus + Capacity Building in Higher Education (HE) programme. The overarching goal of OpenMed is to facilitate the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in the South Mediterranean region (S-M), with a particular focus on HE in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco..

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Blog : Reblog: Integrating Open Badges into OTL’s ‘Guide to Campus’ Project

2nd February 2016
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The Office of Teaching & Learning is a newly formed department focused on the engagement and experience of Coventry University students. DMLL is currently working with the OTL’s Project Officer, Esmé Spurling, who is leading a new project called ‘Guide to Campus’. The project will connect prospective and current first year undergraduate/postgraduate Chinese students to Coventry..

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Project : Open Badges

28th January 2016
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Overview Open Badges recognise skills and learning through digital certification that allows the badge owner to demonstrate achievement and the viewer to see the criteria for the badge. They are becoming increasingly popular as a means of recognising, rewarding and publicising achievements, skills and knowledge. This project investigates the feasibility of using badges to support..

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