Slides for my presentation during OER Week (7 March 2024) for the National eLearning Center webinar "The Future of Open Education: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities"
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Credit transfer for online masters programmes
The topics of credit transfer between academic programmes and Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) before studying a new programme have a growing literature, the more so with the recent explosive growth of interest in microcredentials - however, few of the many papers on the topics focus on the situation for postgraduate programmes. Yet the development … Continue reading Credit transfer for online masters programmes
Digital Learning Book Chapter
Coming soon! A short book chapter written by Paul Bacsich and Charlotte Doody on “Trends and Issues of Digital Learning in the United Kingdom”, looking at blended and online learning in schools. Look out for this in the next two months as part of a larger publication, a multi-chapter book, from the National Taiwan Normal … Continue reading Digital Learning Book Chapter
Special Issue “Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned”
Special Issue of the MDPI journal "Education Sciences" on "Virtual Schools" (online K-12 providers) Authors are invited to submit research articles to this Special Issue. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2024. This Special Issue aims to consolidate cutting-edge research and insights into K-12 virtual schools in order to serve as a comprehensive resource for … Continue reading Special Issue “Virtual Schools for K-12 Education: Lessons Learned”
OER World Map
Did you know that OER World Map data is held in the Virtual Education Wiki? Visit the wiki. https://videopress.com/v/04oVLCvv?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
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Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki
Visit the wiki: http://openeducation.wiki/wiki/Main_Page This week sees the official relaunch of the Virtual Education Wiki on March 9th. Matic Media is excited to re-engage the Wiki community and begin building upon the latest information the wiki holds. The wiki is devoted to virtual learning in education - at all levels (schools, colleges and universities) … Continue reading Relaunch – Virtual Education Wiki
Happy New Year for 2022 including education
As I write this based in the UK in early January 2022 here like in many other countries we are wrestling with the issues caused by the rise of the Omicron variant of Covid. Yet one can be reasonably optimistic at present that 2022 will be a bit closer to what used to be called … Continue reading Happy New Year for 2022 including education
New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER
Responding to demand from researchers and policy analysts we are gradually copying all the public reports from the EU-funded POERUP project and all our associated OER-relevant projects onto a repository called Policies for OER Uptake. This is hosted on the Canvas LMS which we use for much of our teaching and content development for ourselves … Continue reading New beta repository of policy-related studies on OER
New logo
As part of the site revamp we now have the official Matic Media Ltd logo on the web site. The balls are not fairy lights (despite Christmas approaching) but the five levels of the Pick&Mix system for benchmarking online learning.
Opening up learning 