Higher Education in Today's Era

  Week 3 & 4 Reflection In the last two weeks, I learned many new things in ED403, and among them was one of the most important elements on which I have improved my practical knowledge. This was Open Educational Resources (OER). After going over the readings and videos, I was able to understand licensing and copyright issues. I have been using OER, but these two things play a lot of roles in the definition of OER.  As part of my discussion forum activity, I browsed many OER and selected OpenStax, Khan Academy, CORE Econ, Open Textbook Library, and MIT Open Courseware. I selected MIT Open Courseware and Khan Academy for my evaluation exercise. I found out that a lot of instructor and learner materials such as PowerPoint notes, quizzes, past exam questions and solutions, and short videos are available on the websites of these OERs. I will be using these for my course in the future.  In addition to the discussion forum, I also did an online course on OER from the C...

 Week 3 Reflection Week 3 was about learning resources and technologies. The focal point in this week's online class was Open Education Resources (OER). From the reading and my own understanding, OER is an important part of online teaching and learning programs in higher education. Pacific Islands can make good use of this as it is mostly available online and free of charge. From a teacher's point of view, it is very helpful to me as I will be able to use the notes, quizzes, questions, and other related materials and modify them to my own needs to teach my students. The students can also make use of this and use them as a reference/ revision guide.  I watched the videos on Moodle that were provided by my course coordinator.  Through the readings and video guides, I was able to strengthen my knowledge and skills in online learning applications. For example, the presenter in "Reimagining Learning" threw some light on how to break the status quo and how online learning c...

 ED403 is a timely unit for educators in higher education institutes as there are a lot of development taking place in the teaching and learning practice in higher education.  In the last two weeks I started learning about Technology enabled Learning (TeL) and I have been introduced to some new frameworks such as TPACK and TIM. In addition to this, I have also learn about Community of Inquiry (CoI) through which I was able to enhance my understanding on cognitive presence, teacher presence, social presence. I also found some insightful discussions on session 1 through discussion forum in Moodle.