Category Archives: Education

OER at STOA

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

Ewout ter Haar (STOA) and Carolina Rossinni (Berkman Centre) organized an open informal meeting on Open Educational Resources at USP last Friday morning. Invited international speakers, Melissa Hagemann ( OSI ) and Joel Thierstein ( Associate Provost from Rice University and … Continue reading →

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Same or different languages, cultures and practices?

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

Last August, I was honoured to receive an invitation from Larry Johnson and Alan Levine to join the New Media Consortium (NMC)  2008-9 Horizon Project Advisory Board (pdf file), a multi-disciplinary and international team whose annual work informs the annual … Continue reading →

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Roda Viva – Interactive TV experiment

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

Last night, Bel Colluci, from TV Cultura asked me (through a quick message on Gtalk) to participate in an “experiential participatory transmission” they are conducting: streaming the Roda Viva interview program raw and live footage on the Web a week … Continue reading →

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A nagging question

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

I have been increasingly invited to take part in events, conferences and even keynotes.  So far so good – it means people deem I have something to give and share.  However, with very few exceptions, I notice a recurring pattern … Continue reading →

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On learning and instructional design

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

On the Online Toys and Tools discussion forum,  Sirin Soyoz from Istambul states As far as I experience, it is instructional design that facilitates learning and learners must take on new roles in the learning process. This is very much … Continue reading →

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Wordle on Beespace

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

I foolishly assumed that by giving Wordle the feed to my blog, it would automatically scan ALL the posts for word frequency and I would be able to visualize the most common semantic fields covered. Not yet there but  Jonathan … Continue reading →

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On community, facilitating, moderating and teaching

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

I will try to bundle two weeks of questions, readings and reflections on what I have observed until now. What is an online community? This is the first question in the FOC08 course and Leigh introduces the topic with a warning and … Continue reading →

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Here comes everybody

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

The Power of Organizing without Organizations I have just posted my introduction to the Moodle Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course which is about to start. The course, which has already been nicknamed MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) because of the … Continue reading →

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Observing and noting down

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

When observing and reacting, I relate first and foremost to human beings. I do not believe this springs from my need of belonging, building a role or forming a community. What I have observed: Some people trying to understand how … Continue reading →

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Decision to participate

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

Fortunately, I do have some of the technical skills the course requires and know how to find my way in a distributed environment. However, as I mentioned before, I was consuming, commenting and contributing to f2f  encounters and trying to … Continue reading →

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