Open Pedagogy Notebook. Decolonising the curriculum toolkit – CETI. The Decolonising the Curriculum Toolkit is a collaborative project involving students and staff at the University of Westminster and beyond.
We understand decolonising as an on-going process that involves unravelling our assumptions about curricula, critically examining its content and forms, and imagining new ways of learning together. The project aims to provide students and staff with resources to begin thinking about and engaging in decolonising learning and teaching. We recognise that this will look and feel different in each discipline. With that in mind we compiled a general introductory reading list and individual lists for the subject areas that we teach at Westminster. To access the lists please follow the links below. HorizonTAL - science fiction's contribution.
Margie was disappointed.
She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommy's teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked out completely. A Foreword to Hybrid Teaching. When One Class is Not Enough. It is only from a place of extreme privilege that someone is able to shelter themselves from politics, as many must face the consequences of the political system in everything that they do.
This is especially true of educational institutions, in and through which structural inequality is systemic, unfairly impacting students, faculty, and staff of color. In my 2017 article for Hybrid Pedagogy, I outlined an approach to teaching highly politicized topics through service learning, but more specifically I explained how I taught a course on the issues of citizenship and what I would do differently in the future. Now, in 2020, the week after one of the most contentious elections in recent history, I find myself reflecting on the evolution of this project, and how my approach to bringing politics into the classroom has changed.
Taking Another Look at the Digital Credentials Landscape. Recently, I’ve been having some interesting conversations about the digital credentials landscape.
Compassion can change the world. 2020 has been extremely stressful for the entire global population.
As the year is closing, we are all longing for change. We are collectively able to make the world a better place, but we cannot expect it to magically happen. We should be deliberate about it and have a plan. Compassion has to be at the heart of it. The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic. Yesterday, Claudia Webbe, a Labour MP, called purely online university education provision during the current pandemic “daylight robbery”.
She cited the maximum fees that universities can charge students in England and Wales. I had some thoughts about that, which I put in a Twitter thread, but am saving here to refer back to. (32) Accessibility maturity in an educational context (2): Drivers. The snapback – Peter Bryant: Post Digital Learning. Probably one of the most overused words in the academic lexicon is liminality.
Many would argue that it lost its meaning as soon as we took it out of its anthropological context and started applying it all across the disciplinary shop. One of the key concepts critical to understanding what it means to be in a liminal state is the rite of passage. Overview Guidelines – MIRVA. ALT East England - 17 November 2020 - Online. Embracing Accessibility encompasses a series of 4 online events, each taking place at 2pm on 17, 18, 19 and 20 November 2020.
The series was jointly organised by ALT East England and East Midlands Learning Technologists group (EMLT), who are both are regional groups of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Find out about the benefits of becoming an ALT member . 1 - Integrating tools to support accessibility - Tuesday 17 Nov, 2-3pm - register via Eventbrite Draft schedule Session slides. Making a #Stepchange? Investigating the Alignment of Learning Analytics and Student Wellbeing in United Kingdom Higher Education Institutions. Introduction In recent years there has been growing concern around student wellbeing and in particular mental health.
Mapping geopolitical inequalities of valued knowledge. Search our resources - Centre for Innovation in Education. How to spot fake news on Facebook and Twitter before the 2020 election. In this election season, misinformation seems to be everywhere.
Concern about the state of the post office and absentee voting has fueled misleading, viral images of collection boxes. Racist conspiracy theorists have brought back birtherism to attack vice presidential candidate Sen. Could Counterfactuals Explain Algorithmic Decisions Without Opening the Black Box? Algorithmic systems (such as those deciding mortgage applications, or sentencing decisions) can be very difficult to understand, for experts as well as the general public. Image: Ken Lane (CC BY-NC 2.0). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has sparked much discussion about the “right to explanation” for the algorithm-supported decisions made about us in our everyday lives. While there’s an obvious need for transparency in the automated decisions that are increasingly being made in areas like policing, education, healthcare and recruitment, explaining how these complex algorithmic decision-making systems arrive at any particular decision is a technically challenging problem—to put it mildly.
Relying on counterfactual explanations as a means to help us act rather than merely to understand could help us gauge the scope and impact of automated decisions in our lives. Liberatory Design Card Deck — National Equity Project. Liberatory Design Card Deck NEP has developed a Liberatory Design Process in collaboration with colleagues from the Stanford University d.school: Tania Anaissie, David Clifford, and Susie Wise.
This Liberatory Design Card deck offers an introduction to the process, mindsets, and activities that build on the tradition of human-centered design (aka design thinking) to allow for deeper innovation and agency amidst institutionalized norms, structures, and oppression. There’s a few ways to get your hands on the Liberatory Design card deck: Download and print your own deck here.Purchase a deck here.There are 3 different versions available for purchase (the same content just different sizes and price points): a cut your own version, an “economy” version (half-page) and our original 4.5″x5.5″ card deck.
A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis. June 5, 2020 Journal article Open Access. Acknowledgements – Open at the Margins. A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus. New Study: There Is NO Relationship Between International Test Scores and Economic Growth. This is the most important post you will read this month or maybe even this year. It refutes the basis of American education policy. This is major study of the relationship between scores on PISA and economic growth. It demonstrates that there is none. It was written by Hikaru Komatsu (Associate Professor at National Taiwan University) and Jeremy Rappleye (Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education) for the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training.
What skills do global learners have in common? Global learners are the theme of this year's international education conference, Going Global 2020. Quick tips for ‘Emergency’ Online Learning with Moodle. In a Pandemic, a Virtual Erasmus Offers a New Way of Crossing Cultures – The University Times.
Why Sharing Academic Publications Under “No Derivatives” Licenses is Misguided. The benefits of open access (OA) are undeniable and increasingly evident across all academic disciplines and scientific research: making academic publications1 freely and openly accessible and reusable provides broad visibility for authors, a better return on investment for funders, and greater access to knowledge for other researchers and the general public.
Building resilience through an open approach to education. Pan-European Matchathon. Coronavirus. Ten commandments of care in progressive organisations and social movements - ZEMOS98. Pedagogy of Care - ZEMOS98. Terms of Service; Didn't Read. Guest post: A student toolkit to help you tackle remote learning written by students for students. A Resource Guide for Transitioning Your Class Online. Open Education for a Better World. Hannah Arendt "The Crisis in Education" Understanding Document Accessibility – Open Textbook. Alternatives & Resources - ethical.net. Learning to learn for new digital soft skills for empolyability. eLene4Life: Innovative teaching approaches to developing 'soft skills' for life transitions.
Bending The Arc Goes Public. 3 vital skills for the age of disruption. Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The context of virtually connecting. Content Type Accessibility. Open Government Licence. ACRL 2019 Beyond free.pptx. We do not support the EU Copyright Directive in its current form. Here’s why you shouldn’t either. Let’s make education fairer. HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons – freeCodeCamp.org. Film featuring Cleveland digital redlining now on line. The Unintended Consequences of the ‘Free’ Internet. A Human Framework for Institutional Innovation – actualham. Unbundling and Rebundling Higher Education in an Age of Inequality. Introduction to Open Education: Towards a Human Rights Theory – International Journal of Open Educational Resources.
This Is How We Radicalized The World. Identity & Intersectionality in Learning. Microsoft Is Pushing New Blockchain ID Products (But There's Pushback, Too) Why tech’s gender problem is nothing new. Critically Thinking About Critical Thinking - EdTech Researcher. Why I Love Helping Back up the Public Web. The EU Spent a Bundle to Unify the Continent. It’s Not Working. 3 Challenges for the Future of Education. Webinar: Open licensing in the Erasmus+ CBHE projects – OpenMed. Rethinking higher education in the service of humanity. What’s at stake in the July 5 #SaveYourInternet vote: The text, explained. How to fix what has gone wrong with the internet - The ins and outs. Why we shouldn't let economists play with education - Long View on Education.
EU Copyright Proposal That Would Destroy Internet Memes Being Protested With Internet Memes. EU Copyright Proposal That Would Destroy Internet Memes Being Protested With Internet Memes. How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia. Testimony at Council of Europe’s Convention 108 plenary. Banned on the run. What are we learning from policy experiments to increase innovation and entrepreneurship? Illegal memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the proposed EU copyright overhaul. Snippet tax and upload filters: lethal © cocktail from the Council – the EP must act NOW – Copybuzz.
UK research funders suggest liberated open-access policy : News blog. Brookings created a blueprint to help countries around the world radically improve education. Article 11: Driven by Rhetoric, not by Arithmetic – Copybuzz. Presentation of the project "Competences for Democratic Culture" Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years. Untitled. Systems of revolt: open-source and open-access as viable rivals to vendor products – undaimonia. Behind the scenes at #oer17- Streaming to YouTube with Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio – MASHe.
Do I need a new license? Creative Commons, Cambridge Analytica and Ethics. What could Open Government learn from Open Technology folks? Researching alternative ways of measuring impact in Learning Technology. Bloomsbury Collections - A Manifesto for the Public University. Campaign for the Public University. GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY – This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective. Algorithmic Impact Assessments: Toward Accountable Automation in Public Agencies.
Sustainable Development Goals: Future of International Higher Education? Substituting Computer Science for World Languages is Bad Policy. How a former Soviet state became one of the world's most advanced digital nations. Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC. Help Me Help You: "It Became Personal" With Daniel Bassill.