A huge honor has been given for everyone who has been part of the UDG Agora project. The Open Education Consortium (OEC) has recognized the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) and the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG) with a 2017 Open Education Award for Excellence on the area of Open Faculty Development Program. Open Educational…
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Making the UDG Agora Work in Spanglish / Ingléspañol
This Tuesday marks the culmination of our second year of the UDG Agora project, maybe one of the best projects I have been ever part of for professional, collaborative, cultural, and human reasons. It is also one that will likely never make a splash in any academic marquee publishing space. The project is a significant […]
Making the UDG Agora Work in Spanglish / Ingléspañol
This Tuesday marks the culmination of our second year of the UDG Agora project, maybe one of the best projects I have been ever part of for professional, collaborative, cultural, and human reasons.
It is also one that will likely never make a splash i…
#UDGAgora: Open as in Taco
For the second year iteration of our UDGAgora work with faculty from the University of Guadalajara, the schedule moved to the second day a presentation on openness Brian Lamb and had done in 2015 later in the week.
User Experience Fishbowl
Such great sharing by the fishbowl participants of the first @CIEP_UdeG @JIBCnews #udgagora pic.twitter.com/ly4oy1Zr5o — Tannis Morgan (@tanbob) June 14, 2016 At today’s opening session for the 2016 Cohort of UDG Agora, four participants from 2015 were invited back to provide insight into their experience via one of the Liberating Structures formats known as the…
Shift and Share Summaries
Below you can find images from the notes from the group discussions at the “Shift and Share” sessions helpd at UdG in December 2015. In these sessions, participants gathered in groups associated with the UdG Agora Studios. The prompts were to share the learnings that shifted the proactive of UdG professors. After brainstorming with post-it…
Photos from UDG Diplomas Day 2
As the third phase of the UDG Agora Project, participants from the second week of July sessions again assembled on the CUAAD campus for a one day meeting in December.
Photos from UDG Diplomas Day 1
As the third phase of the UDG Agora Project, participants from the first week of July sessions again assembled on the CUAAD campus for a one day meeting in December.
DIFM or DIY or DIO?
http://j.mp/udg-dio In this studio we will explore our own relationships to technology. You may just want it to work for you, so you can focus your time attention elsewhere, not deal with arcane technical tasks, this is what we call DIFM (Do It For Me). But in other situations, you may want to understand what…
The Top x Things About #UDGAgora
UDG Agora at ETUG: Hybrid Presentation Mode Activated
Photos from the July Face to Face sessions
Photos from Alan Levine’s flickr photos
A Lovely Bloom of UDGAgora Hashtags
From our initial visits and surveys of participants, we knew twitter was not in wide use among the faculty participants of the UDG Agora project. We heard people mostly use Facebook, and WhatsApp for quick communication.
In our first meetings, we coll…
The Twitter Ramp Up Problem
We are hearing a lot of feedback from our UDG Agora participants that many of their efforts to have their students use twitter fall short “They don’t like it”, “They won’t go there”, “they prefer Facebook̶…
If You Can Explain Twitter to Your Mom…
I’ve used this suggestion a few times to participants in our UdGAgora Project who are trying to figure out what kinds of things they can have their students do, that also produce some artifact that documents their learning.
Few things work better…
