David Murphy's Occasional Blog

MOOCs are the current hot topic. And you might not be just reading about them, you may also be trying them. If so, are you one of the small band of ‘completers’, or did you discontinue? If you did drop out, then you’re not alone, as attested by the interactive graph produced by Katy Jordan. [...]

It’s only just started, so don’t delay, enrol for the UK Open University MOOC on Open education. Yes, our old friend Martin Weller has been at it again, and this time it’s a version of the Masters unit H817, ‘Openness and innovation in elearning’ made available to all via the UKOU’s OpenLearn initiative.

Martin Weller is certainly a busy fella, isn’t he though? This time he’s a co-author of an excellent new publication from the UKOU, Innovating Pedagogy 2012. It’s apparently the first of a regular series, and seems a great idea: a short (38 pp.) report “Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators [...]

Never heard of Annotum? Neither had I until Martin Weller brought it to my attention through his new project, the Meta Ed Tech Journal. As Martin explains, it’s not really a journal as such, “but rather an aggregated, or meta-journal.

When I started this post, I intended to write about new online books I’d spied while perusing my own links on the right of this page. I’m still doing this, but I shall rapidly divert to rugby – I’ve just returned from a memorable short trip to New Zealand to see the semi-final of the [...]

Glancing to the right in my ‘Blogroll’, you’ll see my favourite educational bloggers: the officially accepted guru Stephen Downes; wise old (well, not that old) Terry Anderson; really old (but wise and indefatiguable) Tony Bates; messianic (with respect to his zeal rather than his spirituality) Zaid Ali Alsagoff; and the ever-engaging Martin Weller.