General feedback on topic 5

For topic 5 we challenged you to push yourselves a little harder and try something different – it was good to see a number of you responded to this with Prezis, Vlogs and Powtoons! In your final assessed posts, you might like to reflect upon any specific value you obtained from these tools that you will take forward to future modules, or to the building of your own professional online profiles.

Open access is a challenging subject once you dig beneath the initial knee jerk reaction of “of course everything should be free”. The best posts took the opportunity to showcase critical writing skills by examining the issues from the perspective of all parties involved, not just the end users of content. If your marks for this topic were lower than you were expecting, please check out this post on critical writing because some of you were too quick to jump into rather simplistic solutions given the economics involved.

Please remember to quote all your sources – and if you are in any doubt whether or not an image is shareable – choose another one!