Archive for the “DIYMasters” category
Joining the Learning Tribe
by Pippa on March 24, 2009
Over the last months I’ve realised that there are two major components to my DIY Masters project: DIY Masters as a learning concept and the field I want to work in, and the actual learning and skill development I want …
DIY Masters on the Bank of Common Knowledge
by Pippa on March 21, 2009
During January I recorded a video about starting a DIYMasters degree which has recently been uploaded to the Bank of Common Knowledge.
I met Olivier and Ninon from Barcelona based cultural co-operative system Platoniq while they were running a …
150Things: #4 On becoming Friends
by Pippa on March 6, 2009
One of the reasons that I’ve become so interested in the process of friendship creation is that over the last 3 years I’ve been moving from place to place. I’ve stayed in Helsinki, Sheffield and Berlin for a minimum of …
I2OE: Week 2 – Motivations
by Pippa on March 5, 2009
The motivations for Open Educational Resources (OER) have changed over the history of OER, particularly for individuals and institutions in the developed world.
Motivations for the continued development of the Open Education Resources (OER) model as part of the open …
Check List
by Pippa on February 24, 2009
When I changed battlecat servers at the end of last year I briefly read over my previous I Would Like list and removed the list from my major links. I’d just moved to Berlin and was feeling very unsure of …
March Forward
by Pippa on February 23, 2009
Primarily it’s the fact that I’m pretty tired of cold, wet weather but my thoughts are turning to magic portals and instant travel back to Adelaide in the next couple of weeks. While I love Spring in Adelaide and would …
DIYMasters: Call for Participation
by Pippa on February 22, 2009
Update Below!
So far, it feels that I’ve made very little progress with my DIYMasters work, as I seem to do more thinking about what I intend to do rather than actually sitting down to write, study or create.
Overthinking …
Mind Dominoes
by Pippa on February 18, 2009
I’m not sure what people’s minds were like before this whole internet thing came along, but one of the results of growing up alongside the internet and web is that I notice and want to record links between everything I …
A line has two sides.
by Pippa on February 15, 2009
I’m slowly making my way along the very meandering path of my DIY Masters degree. Thankfully, for both academic and everyday-living-in-Germany reasons, I’m beginning to make some progress with learning German. That is of course when I wake up early …
I2OE: Week 1 – History
by Pippa on February 7, 2009
PERSONAL RESPONSE
It’s great to see how individuals and institutions have responded to the possibility of shared educational resources over the last 7 years particularly. I’m sure that as more people and organisations (commercial, educational and non-for-profit) become involved, there …






