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Innovation lab: a way to transform open education at University
Open innovation is a challenge for any educational institution and requires a process of reflection and experimentation on the part of the teacher. However, the number of initiatives around open education is still far from reaching the desired levels. The period of confinement experienced in most Western economies since the Covid-19 crises revealed many shortcomings…
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Promoting Critical thinking in Science Education
Critical thinking (CT) plays a central role in science education in the current post-truth era (Jiménez-Aleixandre & Puig, 2022), characterized by the rise of misinformation and anti-science movements through social networks. At the post-truth era, facts and evidence have less influence than references to emotions and personal beliefs (Puig, Blanco-Anaya, Bargiela Mosquera, 2024). Furthermore, due…
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Launch of UNOE
On 26 June, launch of the Unitwin Open Education Network (UNOE). The launch will take place exclusively online, on 26 June at 3pm (CEST, Nantes time). To register (free of charge) and follow the event, https://tinyurl.com/UNOE-launch Programme Protocol Moderator: Colin de la Higuera, UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence (RELIA) at Nantes…
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About this blog
Launching a blog is often the beginning of a great adventure. You start with a project, you definitively have some ideas, you have some collaborators with who you are going to have to learn to work with, and you are looking forward to new collaborations. You also are willing to try new technologies which will…
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Prompted good sleep
Quality sleep isn’t always straightforward. It requires proper preparation, suitable conditions, and consistency, all of which present challenges, both for students and teachers. How can ChatGPT-4 assist us in developing a viable action plan to enhance our health literacy and ability to lead healthier lives? Here’s one example. The Prompt We developed the following structures…
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A proposal for an open-education multimedia journal
The education process is changing: the classical textbook is becoming less important, while there is a growing interest in assembling custom presentations and education material with many components: text, images, videos, simulations, sounds, etc. Most audio/visual material is proprietary, and even if a university is granted (or has bought) the rights of usage, the resulting…
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Teacher Well-being in the Era of Open Education
In the age of information and communication technologies, education is in constant transformation, which presents challenges but also opportunities for the educational community. In this context, open education offers a wide range of possibilities, as this approach, characterized by its accessibility, benefits not only students and the quality of teaching, but also has a positive…
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Open educational resources and self-regulated learning
Imagine a law student at a university. This student has to attend many lectures and seminars in the fields of civil law, criminal law and public law, acquire competences and prove these in various types of examinations. You can probably also imagine that the student perceives the learning opportunities as having varying degrees of success.…
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Enrichment of knowledge and opportunity to try out a course before committing to it – part 2
At Linnaeus University, open training for web programmers has been conducted for about 10 years, which anyone interested can take part in online. Everything is open from the schedule, study guides, laboratory instructions, reading instructions, practice tasks, examination tasks and all recorded lectures. It gives anyone the opportunity to follow the teaching, but if you…
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Enrichment of knowledge and opportunity to try out a course before committing to it – part 1
Is there any added value in trying out a course before taking it? That question has been asked many times by students and yes the ability to try out a course before officially registering for it with the intention of completing it for credit has its advantages. There is much to suggest that there is…