Month: <span>July 2020</span>

Blog 3: Attaining the Goals of Higher Education in the Digital Age (Revised)

According to Madland (2020), the fundamental goals of higher education are the following: creating new knowledge, sharing new knowledge, and providing services for the good of the economy. Given today’s advance technology, I personally believe that educators will be able to attain these goals. Educators just have to discover digital …

Blog 4: OER-Enabled Education Pedagogy via Twitter

When I first learned about OER-Enabled Education Pedagogy, I never considered the idea that social media can be a platform that could be used to create, use, and share open educational resources (OERs) (Wiley and Hilton, 2018). This is because I believe that social media is not originally created to …

Blog 3: Attaining the Goals of Higher Education in the Digital Age

According to Madland (2020), the fundamental goals of higher education are the following: creating new knowledge, sharing new knowledge, and providing services for the good of the economy. Looking into these goals, some educators may say that it is too idealistic and it is impossible to achieve. However, with today’s …

Blog 2: Open Education

When people talk about ‘Open Education,’ people understood it from different backgrounds. Since ‘Open Education’ is a broad term, it is understandable that it can be subjected to various interpretations. Among the themes of ‘Open Education’ discussed by Jordan and Weller (2017), I found distance education interesting. This is because …

Blog 1: Data Privacy and Education

Cloud computing according to Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner (2012) is a way of processing, storing, and managing data remotely in the cloud. It provides public bodies with a convenient and cheap tool that helps the institutions handle information more efficiently. Public bodies include such institutions as schools, hospitals, …