Connecting is Learning - Ken's Adventures in Education

ISC 2018

Ken Bauer on December 6, 2018

This semester I have the honour of being the “padrino de generación” for the graduating class.

This is the 47th graduating class from the campus and my fifth invitation to be the godfather of the graduating class.

Post in process still.

I was invited by my colleague and friend Dora to give a keynote this weekend at the “4o Foro Educativo” in Durango. This was a wonderful day with some amazing educators and I thank them for their hospitality and bringing together a great group of people to learn together with.

I am including my slides as well as embeds of the videos that I planned to share but chose to skip over most of them due to audio problems in the room. They are much easier to appreciate with a set of headphones and time in your own favourite place for watching videos.

And now for the video embeds after the cut here, click through to see those.

i-Week 2018, Secrets of Encryption

Ken Bauer on September 28, 2018

Detail from the Enigma machine on display at the International Spy Museum

This is the third year that we have offered this week long course at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara. I usually provide a single day of activities but managed to also provide the kick-off session while my colleague was busy with another course on campus.

Thanks to Francisco Alvarado Chacón for organizing this as well as other colleagues that are part of the project.

This post (first in almost a year, I know) is really a resource for students of links and videos that I provided in my time in class with them. The assignment is also provided here first.

Flipped Learning Module – Diplomado en Innovación Educativa

Ken Bauer on November 25, 2017

Picture of students and a quote from Robert Talbert from the Ask the FLN Podcast episode 7 "I think that we as teachers ought to be completely open and sort of fearless about displaying our warts, our flaws and our failed attempts because like I said to my students, this is how we get better."

Notes and Links

Notes from our sessions Friday and Saturday.

Presentation deck, also used for a session on Thursday at our campus in Monterrey

Licenses: Data, Code, Practices

Ken Bauer on October 21, 2017

Open, but not just about Linux

Licenses can be a dry topic for some but have been key to my teaching. Any of my students and colleagues during the past twenty plus years know me as the teacher who was always pushing the use of Linux, Eclipse, Apache Emacs and other open source tools that use open source licensing. This is an important part of my practice and my tool set and remains so. Read on to get a view on how my teaching has changed to include more focus on open data and open practices.

Reach to Open the Door

Ken Bauer on October 16, 2017

A picture of a young boy stretching out his arm across a crate of Coca Cola to reach a bottle.

As I stated in my post from last week, I was aware of open source licensing models and the Creative Commons licenses over the span of most of my years as an educator. I would like to use this post to think about reach and highlight what I have learned in recent years, how open licensing has had a direct impact on my work as well as questions that I have that I still am searching for answers to.

Open Truly Matters to Me

Ken Bauer on October 8, 2017

Meme with Katy Perry shouting ¨ I´m Taking A MOOC And I Like It¨

I’m Taking an Open MOOC and I Like It.

An excellent opportunity to take a MOOC “Introduction to Open Education” (also available on the open web at #OpenEdMOOC) on the edX platform appeared on my radar over the summer. I was kicking around for months which platform to leverage for a reset of my #OpenFlip cMOOC which introduces learners to the four pillars of flipped learning with the Flipped Learning Network in collaboration with my institution the Tecnológico de Monterrey. When I landed at the edX page, it suggested this course for me.

The fact that this was led by David Wiley and George Siemens sealed the deal. Ever since I stumbled across their work a few years ago (more about that below) I have admired the work of both of these pioneers in open education.

You will also notice the ¨redundancy¨ of using Open in the title when it already says ¨MOOC¨. More below.

Congreso de Actualización y Vanguardia Educativa

Ken Bauer on July 15, 2017

Two men selling candy in the streets of downtown Zacatecas.

Keynote and Workshop

I was invited by colleagues of our Tecnológico de Monterrey en Zacatecas to share a keynote (Flipped Learning) and a three instances of a one hour workshop on Open Educational Resources. This was indeed an honour and I was also interviewed by a local newspaper (NTR Zacatecas) and that interview should appear in the Monday edition.

Update: no interview published but I found this article about the event.