Open Educational Resources and Learning Spaces: Abstract
Josie Taylor
The Open University
Abstract
Education, and in particular higher education, has seen rapid change as learning institutions have had to adapt to the opportunities provided by the Internet to move more of their teaching online and to become more flexible in how they operate. However, whilst many institutions across the world have made content available in OER, we believe that higher education needs to prepare itself to exist in a more open future by embracing openness and the implications for change entailed.
The Open University started its open content initiative, OpenLearn, in 2006, and has attracted more than 11 million unique visitors. Studies carried out across OpenLearn users included analysis of user behaviour, targeting those who used the site more heavily, supported by follow-up interviews and monitoring of activities taking place with the open content. The results from one of these studies (n = 2,011) highlighted two distinct clusters of learners: "volunteer" students and "social" learners. The volunteer students sought the content they wanted to learn from, and they expected to work through it. These learners were most interested in more content, tools for self-assessment, and ways to reflect on their individual learning. The social learners were less motivated to work through the content. Rather, they seem to see learning as a way to meet people with shared interests. This cluster of learners ranked communication tools more highly and were more interested in advanced features on the website.
In this talk, I will relate these findings to other research in digital literacies, as well as to studies which try to understand learner behaviour, outlining how we can develop our practice to support these two very distinct kinds of users.
Linda Quinn, director of communications and marketing at Big Lottery Fund, presented at a workshop in London on December 1 2011 to develop ideas for People Powered Change. More here http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=404
Open Educational Resources and Learning Spaces: Abstract
Josie Taylor
The Open University
Abstract
Education, and in particular higher education, has seen rapid change as learning institutions have had to adapt to the opportunities provided by the Internet to move more of their teaching online and to become more flexible in how they operate. However, whilst many institutions across the world have made content available in OER, we believe that higher education needs to prepare itself to exist in a more open future by embracing openness and the implications for change entailed.
The Open University started its open content initiative, OpenLearn, in 2006, and has attracted more than 11 million unique visitors. Studies carried out across OpenLearn users included analysis of user behaviour, targeting those who used the site more heavily, supported by follow-up interviews and monitoring of activities taking place with the open content. The results from one of these studies (n = 2,011) highlighted two distinct clusters of learners: "volunteer" students and "social" learners. The volunteer students sought the content they wanted to learn from, and they expected to work through it. These learners were most interested in more content, tools for self-assessment, and ways to reflect on their individual learning. The social learners were less motivated to work through the content. Rather, they seem to see learning as a way to meet people with shared interests. This cluster of learners ranked communication tools more highly and were more interested in advanced features on the website.
In this talk, I will relate these findings to other research in digital literacies, as well as to studies which try to understand learner behaviour, outlining how we can develop our practice to support these two very distinct kinds of users.
Linda Quinn, director of communications and marketing at Big Lottery Fund, presented at a workshop in London on December 1 2011 to develop ideas for People Powered Change. More here http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=404
La Organización Mundial de la Salud nos explica los daños del tabaco en la salud humana. Disponible en http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/es/
1. Día Mundial Contra El Tabaquismo. Grado:8ª- Año:2011 Prof.: Nombre: Fabián Ramírez Henao TEL: 548 09 07
2. El tabaquismo es una enfermedad adictiva crónica. Es una forma de drogodependencia y, por tanto, una enfermedad. Muy pocos fumadores son conscientes de hasta que punto es peligroso fumar.
3. En Colombia, el consumo de cigarrillo esta iniciando entre los 10 y 14 años de edad; adicionalmente el 30% de menores de 19 años esta fumando y de esos porcentajes mas o menos un 20% y un 30% llegaran a ser adictos a la nicotina por el resto de su vida, indica john marulanda, asesor científico de la liga colombiana de lucha contra el cáncer.
4. En Colombia al igual que en el mundo, los hombres duplican al porcentaje de fumadores frente a las mujeres, y las cifras de mortalidad ligadas a esta adicción siguen en aumento.
5. Se estima que en Colombia se están produciendo al año alrededor de 21 mil muertes, en la actualidad el consumo de tabaco es la principal causa de mortalidad evitable en el mundo.
6. El cigarrillo tiene por lo menos 16 efectos secundarios, por eso el mensaje una vez mas esta en elegir una vida saludable y libre de adicciones.