By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ As this is the mid-way point of the Coffee Course, we’ll shift the focus slightly and examine the role of research as OER. Open Access Research: greater impact? Research, like learning and teaching, is one of the core activities at a university, for […]
By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ Today we’ll investigate the rationale for sharing content freely and openly, and look at some examples that could spark ideas for your own practice. Open Educational Resources: Giving Content For Free When I explain the concept of openness to practitioners, the most common […]
By Adrian Stagg and Emma Power, USQ In this coffee course, we’ll be exploring Open Educational Practice (OEP) and how it applies to teaching and learning, and research in higher education. We’ll start the course by looking at the key characteristics of openness, the distinction between free and open, and […]
Image source: Unsplash, Pixabay retrieved 2/12/2016 What is all the fuss about MOOCs? There is no doubt that MOOCs are controversial and have both many pros and cons. MOOC’s are being touted as a ” disruptive innovation” to higher education, challenging the current and traditional models of higher education (Flynn, […]
Closing the Loop: Discussion and Reflection Activities in Flipped Classroom The provision of discussion and reflective activities are a key component to the flipped classroom model. After completing the pre-work (content) and learning activities (application), the final stage of reflection and discussion helps students make connections between content, get feedback […]
Why video? Flipping a classroom commonly begins with moving content that would traditionally be delivered in a lecture into online videos that students watch before attending an active learning class. As this often means there are no more face-to-face lectures, incorporating video that features you presenting material is not only […]
What is flipped classroom? The idea of the flipped classroom was first developed in 2004 by Jonathon Bergman and Aaron Sams. It has now become a bit of a ‘pedagogical phenomenon’, particularly with the growth of online teaching environments which provide new platforms for the flipped classroom models to take […]