With sadness, I report that today is my last day here with the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). I have enjoyed the past three years immensely working on the open educational resource project
I use Evernote quite often to keep track of ideas, recipes, grocery lists and books/films I want to see. Evernote works pretty seamlessly between my desktop and my mobile which means I can access and edit my notes at anytime. I was interested
The popular online lecture series TED: Ideas Worth Spreading has recently launched a new initiative called TED-ED: Lessons Worth Sharing. The new initiative comes with a call to educators everywhere to submit one of their lessons which can be delivered
Khan Academy has garnered a lot of attention in the last year or so as he has created and shared hundreds of instructional videos for learners to explore. Despite some critiques of this style of education, its hard to deny the
We are delighted to have our very own Laura Czerniewicz featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education as a ‘Tech Innovator’ who is ‘Transforming Campus’! Laura has been profiled along with other global technology innovators such as Salman Khan from
The global open education community has defined March 5 – 10th as Open Education Week! Open Education Week is a global, community event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially through
I have been exploring the Adobe Acrobat X Pro e-portfolio tool. The Adobe Acrobat X Pro e-portfolio is basically a container for a variety of digital objects. One can drag and drop various multimedia files, office documents and text files
In 2009 as part of my masters coursework I had to create an e-learning intervention for my online learning design course. As I was working in supporting academics share teaching materials as open educational resources, I thought I
For our e-portfolio pilot this year we will be exploring the use of Wikispaces as an e-portfolio tool. Wikispaces is a cloud based wiki-hosting service (sometimes called a wiki farm) and is among the largest of wiki hosts, competing with
I have been scanning some examples of e-portfolios that are openly available on the internet. I believe there is a good argument to allow the open access of e-portfolios so that students can showcase their work to potential employers or