by - Publish a blog post that describes your experience with open education. Is it just with the OU, or have you studied a MOOC, used open resources, or engaged with open access publications?
I have been studying with the OU for let me see now ….since 1996. Before that I studied for four years on a distance education course with the University of Reading. Oh blimey so that means I have been ‘doing’ distance education for an awful long time. I am a user and advocate of open resources generally and now have the pleasure of working in the field. I do feel that having been away for some time doing other stuff ( traditional university face to face courses) a lot has moved on and it feels like I am running a bit to catch up …. but what a journey huh !
I have tried to engage with MOOC without much success so far but I think that is mostly to do with my lack of cleverness with being able to use a wiki properly. …
