Teaching in a Digital Age by A.W. (Tony) Bates

I strongly recommend this open textbook «Teaching in a Digital Age – Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age» written by Tony Bates and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The book is available for downloading in PDF

Scientix Social Media Campaign / Campaña Scientix en Redes Sociales

ENG: This is a collection of tweets to support the Scientix Social Media Campaign in order to let STEM teachers know about the repository of resources available at Scientix portal. ESP: Colleción de tweets de apoyo a la campaña de Scientix en redes sociales para dar a conocer la enorme cantidad de recursos disponibles sobre …

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2nd Scientix Conference (Brussels 24-26 October 2014)

The 2nd Scientix Conference took place in Brussels from Friday, 24 to Sunday 26 of October. The Conference brought together 598 participants from all over the Europe. Although most participants were STEM teachers, there was a significant number of researchers and other profiles related all of them with STEM jobs.   All the Scientix ambassadors …

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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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