OCL4Ed: 3rd Learning reflection

This post contains a learning reflection (E-activity)  about what I learned along the micro Open Online Course OCL4Ed (3rd learning reflection). We were invited to reflect about what we learned and how, connecting previous experiences with current findings. We also have to review our previous posts to personal blogs or microblogging systems. As a starting …

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How to introduce OER and Creative Commons in your School

This post contains a learning reflection about using creative commons licenses that I had to write for the micro Open Online Course OCL4Ed (Activity 4.1). A bit of history Since some years ago I started to read about Open Eucational Resources (OER). This term was first adopted at UNESCO‘s 2002 Forum on the Impact of …

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E-Activity-Copyright MCQs for OCL4Ed

This is an e-activity for the OCL4Ed course. I have to describe a study case related to Copyright issues and create two multiple choice questions about it and the correspondent feedback. Study case: A chemistry teacher is asked to create a Lab Manual Resource which will be posted into a course in the School LMS. …

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Why to use Open Texbooks

This short post will be about Open Texbooks. One of the activities demanded in the OERu online open course about Open content licensing for educators (OCL4Ed) was to read the the book #Open Textbook Tweet and to choose those tweets I particularly liked. The PDF Open Texbook Tweet book (859 KB) contains 119 pages and …

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Lifelong learning reflection

It’s Friday evening and just some hours ago I finished a training workshop for teachers about ‘how to teach with Moodle‘. I spent 12 hours in sessions of 4 hours/day with teachers from Primary and Secondary who were eager to start their summer holidays after a long and hard yearly course. The last effort for …

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I’ve just joined to Open Content Licensing for Educators (OCL4Ed)

Although a litle bit late I’ve just joined to a course called ‘Open Content Licensing for Educators‘. This course is delivered by OERu and the goal is to learn about the concepts of open educational resources, copyright and Creative Commons open licenses to achieve more sustainable education for all. I started some years ago to …

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