Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. Even if you haven’t come across the term before, the chance that you will have used OERs in teaching materials, presentations, slides, and even your personal life on a regular basis is quite high.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 31, 2016

The day I was leaving for Spring Break I took my final driving test. Not like in Europe it had two parts in the U.S. During the first part, I had to park the car in three different positions at the parking slot between the cones. In order to move on to the next part, which is the actual driving in the city, I had to pass this one first. The first part of the driving skills test: parking between the cones.

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MARCH 30, 2016

Can using Reddit help your institution connect with students?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

During a time of expansion of online education at the University of Edinburgh, we need to make time and space to discuss and debate key issues, and to think critically about our likely and preferred futures for digital education. As online teachers, we have to respond through our pedagogies and assessment and feedback practices to visions of the future put forward by a range of stakeholders, including political, corporate and media interests, and to a relentless orientation to the ‘next big thin

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 31, 2016

Open education has been my passion for a number of years now so when I was invited to write a short piece on why open matters for Teaching Matters I was happy to oblige. Before trying to explore this question, let me explain what I mean by open education. Open education is a broad catch-all term that includes open education resources ( OER s), massive open online courses ( MOOC s), open education practice, open assessment practices (e.g.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 31, 2016

My friends and I went to Florida for Spring Break, but we drove. It was about 16 hours, 1110 miles long drive from Holland to Jacksonville. For us it was better to drive because we needed a car in Florida, so we could visit different places. On the other hand, the ride was very long. In the beginning it was fun. We talked a lot about different things, but after Atlanta it really got tiring.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 31, 2016

During our Spring Break we did a lot amazing things. One of them was a trip to the city called St. Augustine. The City of St. Augustine is considered as the oldest city in the United States of America. It was founded in September 1565 by Spanish colonists and it is truly beautiful. It was for the first time when I was walking in the city in the U.S. and I felt like was in Europe – Spain to be more specific.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 29, 2016

Readers, I hope you had the greatest Easter! It was truly a time to celebrate, especially in Dublin. Let me explain. 100 years ago in Dublin on the day after Easter, the first shots of the Easter Rising rang out. This was the significant event that led to Ireland gaining their independence just a few years later. Since I’m still learning about the Rising, I’m not the best one to be explaining it to you so here’s the full story if you want more background.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 30, 2016

Over Spring Break I had the chance to go to Ft. Myers , Florida, with my parents and my friend Heather who is studying to be an ASL interpreter at RIT in New York. It was so nice to get away, soak up some sunshine, and relax with only some guilt at not making any progress on my school work to-do list. One day we decided to check out this ice cream place we had heard about called The Love Boat.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 30, 2016

Hope’s campus is filled once again and bursting with life, especially now that the sun is out. Yet I feel a little bit lost and in the wrong, all because I’m not in New Jersey with the 12 other people I spent the last week with. Last Saturday, our group left bright and early to drive over to New Jersey. We drove all day, finally making it to Highland Park, NJ, that night.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 26, 2016

Click to view slideshow. I’m a food connoisseur – not just because I’m a college student – but also because I’m a, well, hungry college student. I lived my first two years in the downtown strip of Holland, running triathalons between JP’s, Jimmy John’s and Lemonjello’s- but this third year, I discovered there’s so much more to explore.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 31, 2016

Last night I had the first of my lasts (or at least the first last that I was conscious of): my last Hope Bible study at Pillar Church. I haven’t even gone to that many of these Bible studies, but I still somehow feel so connected to them – probably because of the huge love I have for and receive from so many of the people who are there each week.

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