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This is my first open online course and I chose to offer the course on something that I strongly advocate — flipped classroom. I have started using flipped classroom approach in small scale last year and next semester I plan to dive more into this. I would like to invite readers of my blog to join the course and learn more about flipped classroom. Here’s the link: https://www.openlearning.com/courses/flippedlearning

Spreading Knowledge - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires As part of my mission to spread the words about online learning, I have prepared this presentation simply titled  'Spreading Knowledge'. Some of the slides were prepared in PowerPoint and then imported (as images) into Haiku Deck. Haiku Deck is a new kid on the block for presentation application. Note that most slides have accompanying notes. The notes appear next to each slide but you need to view using a browser on a laptop. The storyline is about stepping out from the physical boundary of our classroom to reach out global learners. This link will take you to the presentation Haiku Deck website.

Have you been in a classroom where you can feel the energy and the excitement to participate in the activities and discussion? Well, how many teachers or educators can step into a classroom and ‘energise’ the students to that excitement level? Not many, I guess. I have tried but sometimes fail to maintain dynamic environment throughout the semester. However, I was lucky enough recently to be a student, albeit for a brief moment, to Dr Raihanah, the spirited, energetic and dynamic educator from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Lucky UKM to have such a great talent! I have the privileged to have Dr Raihanah as a guest writer on this blog. Let’s hear now from Dr Raihanah about what’s inspired her to be a lifelong learner, or as she put it, a student of YouTube classroom. Read on…  ----------------------------------- YOUTUBE, MEANINGFUL LEARNING, AND THE LIFELONG LEARNER BY RAIHANAH M.M. Hi. My name is Raihanah and I’m a student of the YouTube classroom. Like my daughter’s ge...

Click image to open interactive version (via Penny Stocks Lab ). I stumbled upon this website via Jane's Hart website . It shows a real-time statistics of the volume of data generated. It's amazing! It is obvious that we, the 21st century educators, develop the crucial skill to search, evaluate, filter, organize and make sense of the information. This is basically what has been discussed on the topic of content curation and personal knowledge management (PKM). I have developed my own PKM and it is very similar to what Jane Hart described in her article ' My daily PKM routine (practices and toolset)' . Have a look at the presentation below by Harold Jarche, 'Sense-Making and Knowledge-Sharing' to learn more about personal knowledge management. sense-making and knowledge-sharing from Harold Jarche

This is the summary of the presentation 'Let's Talk About This' by Professor Wan Mohd Fauzy Wan Ismail from Center for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia. 1. Data from research have shown that the method of presentation or presentation skill of the teacher does not make much difference in terms of learning gain. 2. Approaches to be considered: flipped classroom, Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD), learning space, leverage social media, wiki, persuasive multimedia 3. Leverage social interaction 4. Be mindful of 'expert blind-spot' 5. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is still in experimental stage — issues about learning gain, effectiveness, etc. 6. Engaging students through discussion — they become committed and invested time — structured internal thoughts and vocalized them. 7. In a group discussion, it's not so much about getting the right answer but more importantly is the process of getting the right answer — to appreciate that t...

Promote and participate in Open Education Week 2014. " Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to everyone" (excerpt from the website). Read more...

Prologue For those who have been following trends in higher education, the term MOOCs (pronunciation: muk) is not foreign anymore but for some people it is still kind of clouded in mystery. A simple google search using ‘MOOC’ as a keyword turned up 2.4 million hits and when searched using the full acronym ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ it gave a massive 24 million hits! Mind-boggling indeed! If the number of hits can be used as a simple measure of popularity then perhaps we can surmise that MOOCs is a phenomenon that have a potential to disrupt the education world and will bring about significant impact on achieving “ Education for All ” movement of the United Nation. This article is my attempt to deciphering and demystifying MOOCs. Note that this is my personal view on MOOCs (not that of USM or CDAE) and I must say that I’m inclined towards supporting it because I liked its underlying philosophy. That said, I'm not a MOOCs cheerleader or its fan boy — I keep an open mind on this ev...