Author Archives: HJ.DeWaard
Reflecting on GO-GN
Unfolding as we go along – what a great way to describe a PhD experience, and my involvement in the Global Open Graduate Network (GO-GN). I admit to being fascinated by magical, mathematical, moving constructions. I am mesmerized by seemingly … Continue reading
Reflecting
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience which is bitterest.” Confucius By reflecting on my recent experiences teaching a masters level course on researching … Continue reading
#OER23 A Moment of Joy in the Open
If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy. Dalai Lama I am cross-posting some thoughts from the OER 2023 conference held in Inverness Scotland this past week. These were … Continue reading
Wiki Wondering
“A teacher is a professional, one who must constantly seek to improve and to develop certain qualities or virtues which are not received but must be created. The capacity to renew ourselves every day is important.” Paolo Freire (1985) It … Continue reading
Congress and OTESSA: A conference within a conference
All genuine learning requires of us a constant open approach, a willingness to engage invention and reinvention, so that we might discover those places of radical transparency where knowledge can empower. bell hooks, 2010, p. 187 Here I am, once … Continue reading
Bicycles for the Mind
And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs From Popova, … Continue reading
What is Teaching Practice?
It’s often when you stop and think, as I’ve done in the past few weeks, that you can stumble over the most basic question. In an effort to think more clearly about the basic elements of my teaching practice, I … Continue reading
Five Flames 4 Learning 