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12 persons died yesterday in Paris, most of them illustrators and journalists. 12 persons killed by two terrorists claiming they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. 12 persons that speak for our freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of thought.
Lincoln once said “if you think education is expensive, try ignorance”. Is it all about ignorance? Is it about their ignorance? Or about our own ignorance? Are these illiterate murderers the symbol of our failure to educate them?
The journalists that died were defending a simple truth: we can laugh at everything, at everyone. Do we really learn this at school? Are we brave enough when defending the core values of our democracies? Are we brave enough when we dissimulate the truth to sell more geographic atlas in a given region of the world? Are we brave enough when we let mobbing, racism, sexual harassment enter our classroom? Are we brave enough when we discuss about how religion should be taught and not about how democracy should be taught?

I write every week in my blog about the value of open education and innovative learning. Open education should enable knowledge and values to be shared massively. Innovative learning should be about giving anyone a chance to succeed in school and in life. We discuss endlessly about efficacy, cost effectiveness, adaptation to the job market. We don’t speak enough about simple things such as love, care and respect. How many MOOCs and OERs have been produced on democracy, free speech… and are really used? How much web skills are needed to succeed in life? And how much personal skills?
Education is only a promise that needs to be reaffirmed continuously with or without technology. Two terrorists that were brought up and went to school in France broke this promise with their bullets.
For them education is not the answer. For us it is THE answer, more than ever.
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This key skill focuses on the ways in which you receive and respond to information and communicate with other people in your work, study and everyday life. Communication skills include speaking, listening, reading and writing for different purposes. Techniques such as note taking and writing summaries are important, but so, too, are the techniques of evaluation and application, such as evaluating the relevance and quality of information. More...

In 1215, King John sealed Magna Carta by the Thames at Runnymede in Surrey, a charter between the monarch and his Barons placing limits on his power over freeborn men in the kingdom. Magna Carta enshrined the principle that all people should be bound by the rule of law, including the monarch, and that the processes of justice must be applied to all. Many political thinkers have celebrated Magna Carta as the first example of a bill of rights, an ancient constitution. More...

This Machinima Open Online Training course (or MOOT) prepares you to use Second Life for making machinima. This free online course is part of a 2-year EU funded project for language educators to learn how to create videos (machinima) in virtual worlds. The organizing project coordinators and partners can be found here. More...

Articulate Storyline source file for the online resource found at: https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/social-media-guide/
"This resource explores some social media tools, providing advice on how you can use them in your studies to find information, work with others, keep up to date, network and develop your online presence." More...

This Guidance document will help you to find Open Educational Resources (OER) from a variety of sources. More...

Content on Wikipedia is CC BY-SA, so if you adapt the text, you need to use the same licence when publishing your adaptation. In this walkthrough, we’ll take text and images from Wikipedia, and put them into a document of our own. There are two ways of doing this: one uses the “book creator” tool, and the other uses copy and paste. This guide looks at both methods, and explains how to properly attribute your remixes. There is a PDF version of the guide, and also an OpenDocument Format version if you wish to remix the guide yourself. More...

This duo of resources shows how to manage your reading including reading strategies and speed reading. The second resource looks at how to develop critical reading skills.
Both resources are available online on the skills@library website:
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/activities/reading/managing-your-re...
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/activities/reading/critical-reading/. More...

A rich bank of four resources about how to improve presentation skills. The resources look at:
- planning to present including creating a planning schedule
- preparing to present, including presentation techniques
- practising presenting, including managing nerves
- delivering presentations, including interacting with your audience
There are further help resources provided and self assessment activities. Resources can be found on the skills@library website:
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-presentation. More...

Innovative product and services in the field of e-learning are invited to submit their application to the TELL US Awards by 31st January 2015 and win the opportunity to internationalize their projects with professional support. More...