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The messy stuff of developing something that works

5 Ways to Open Access

It’s Open Access Week (19 – 23 October 2009), where the ideals of the Open Education Resource (OER) movement are highlighted. The movement believes that the Internet should be used to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Open Access aims to encourage and enable free sharing of content for the advancement and [...]

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I hate learning from failure…

Shoot! Technologically -  a failed lecture on Digital Portfolios. My old computer conked out and I was left with a chalkboard and a borrowed lap top (thanks Marco). I had wanted to introduce my students to the Digital Portfolio template and had put together for the Skills for a Changing World Programme and get them [...]

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Different thinking

Kevin Durheim, Professor at the School of Psychology, and his student conference team have put the 2008 student conference online, and  it has a few differences. From left: Jared Forbes, Thembelihle Zuma, Janine Upton & Farina Karim. As we planned this web site, the team and I decided (as one of the conference goals), to [...]

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Different Planning

It’s energising to work with people that are Willing to try new ideas in front of their peers Want to explore better methods of working Unafraid of looking silly The psych masters conference team hadn’t published anything online before. Yet after a day and a half of work shopping, we had decided that we were [...]

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