With innovating technology and digital development, it is essential that academic researchers and students require content that are open licensed, as opposed to claiming the “fair use” of copyrighted content or needing to request permission from copyright owners. Copyright is a tremendously complicated topic, both educational and legal. Reproducing, reusing or even quoting other people’s […]
Week 4: Privacy in open learning
First and foremost, students should have a reasonable degree of personal privacy, especially during online learning. Individual academic records, especially final grades are confidential according to institution regulations. Other organisations and persons other than the University personnel exercising their official duties, and governments requiring the records for credential evaluation, immigration compliance verification and other legal […]
Week 3 in EDCI339: Digital Spaces and Social Presence
Reflection on Digital Technologies and Identity In the contemporary world occupied with technology and AI (Artificial Intelligence) as well as LLMs (Large Language Models), it becomes essential for individuals, especially educators to establish their original content and establish their authentic identity which cannot be easily defeated by machine learning models. By incorporating community participation in […]
Response post 2 for Omar
Hello Omar, After reading your post for Week 2 about Open Learning, especially its accessibility and inclusiveness, I am really impressed by how you outline the history and the history of learning technology and stating your own arguments about the shift in educational because of COVID. They are really practical and fits in the concurrent […]
Response Post 1 for Finn
Hello Finn, It is really great to see your view on evolution of open learning and thank you for your contributions. Your arguments are well formed and clearly articulated, especially about accessibility and universal access for all students. In addition, the photos you have found from Unsplash are well positioned and fits the theme of […]
Week 2 in EDCI 339 (A02)
Open learning is a wonderful creation of mankind as a complement to traditional instructor-led, synchronous learning in a closed learning platform. From the 2010s onwards, people have been trying to change the modularity of learning for remote environments, especially for people with accessibility needs who have difficulty or are completely unable to pursue learning in […]
Getting Started
Hello everyone, I am David H. and I am a upcoming fourth-year computer science student at University of Victoria. Currently my understanding of open learning is to proactively encourage learners to learn materials by themselves, which can include the usage of Internet technology, such as Zoom, LMS and Teams. Open learning should also be reasonably […]