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thoughts and ramblings
Students and tutors as Facebook friends
I have found it enriching to open channels whereby others can communicate their feelings, their private perceptual worlds, to me. (Carl Rogers, from On Becoming a Person, Part I)
At Carnegie College, we use Facebook on a daily basis. Rather than restrict its use we encourage students to get involved. There are groups set up for each class and all students have embraced it. As a result of this, some students have sent friend requests to staff, such as myself which I have duly accepted.
Yesterday, my colleague Colin Maxwell made the following post in a group of leaders in learning technology.
Colin's Facebook post which started this debate
Knowing Colin, I think he just wanted to spice up the group up a little but it was a valid question and I am in the process of writing up a survey to collate information as a series of graphs with a conclusion
Creative commons for teaching materials?
I am currently in the train, heading over to Moray House for my first PhD meeting with Hamish and Jen and I started thinking…. As you do…
This week I introduced the Access Group (int1) to the concept of Creative Commons Licenses and how they can use this to protect their own work. Rather than bore them with the details on copyright and how they shouldn’t use the work of others without permission, I am tackling this from the other side and got them thinking about how others could use their work or even add to it and possibly improve.
So I just started thinking about a Creative Commons approach to educational materials in Colleges and Universities. In these times of cut backs, surely there is an argument for a Creative Commons share-a-like approach between educators. I feel the hurdle would be with management as they are quite blinkered by politics at times but educators are becoming more open to Internet based materials especially as development time has been cut.
I am looking to build a community based site around my research, this may well be an approach.
#just thinking
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