EDUC E-107 Spring 2011

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Unless otherwise specified, Copyright 2011, Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu. Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/). Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2011). Open Education” Practice and Potential.

  Recap ◦  Logistics and expectations, news, glossary, new

student introductions, News   Review student interests (Assignment 0)   Continue discussing open education in a

historical context (and Assignment 1)   Next Week ◦  Assignment 2 and David Wiley

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  We’ve designed the course seminar-style   Participate in the discussions, in class, etc.   We want this to be an enjoyable experience ◦  Be professional, but keep it light

  One of the aspects of open is the idea of collaboration and sharing ◦  We’re trying to include your input into each class ◦  We’re going to try and improve what we do during the

course ◦  If you have any suggestions, please share them

◦  To help us improve the experience for everyone, we’re moving up assignment due dates to Monday 11:59pm

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  Nearly finalized   2 In-Person Guest Speakers ◦  Steve Carson, MIT OpenCourseWare, 2/24 ◦  Mike Smith, Public Policy, 3/31

Please consider joining us on 3/31 for Mike Smith

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  Success is when you have internalized open education in a very personal way

  …in what you do on a day-to-day basis   …in ways you want to make change, in

your job, your organization or the world-at-large

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  Follow OpenEducationNews.org   Setup Google Alert for “Open Education”,

“Open Education Resources”, OpenCourseWare

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  Historically, universities such as Columbia, Oxford, Yale, Princeton and Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have defined their value by exclusivity as much as by excellence. The institutions positioned themselves as purveyors of an important public good — a corps of graduates fit to run a nation — but the classrooms and curriculums that ostensibly transform talented high-schoolers into cardholding members of the adult elite have been walled off from the general public.

  “If you take away OCW completely,” said Ira Fuchs, former vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, of MIT’s celebrated OpenCourseWare project, “I’m not sure that higher education would be noticeably different.” In that light, free online courseware might seem little more than noblesse oblige of a sort that is, not coincidentally, a boon to elite universities’ overseas branding and recruiting efforts.

Source: Kolowich, S. (2011, February 3). “Online Courseware’s Existential Moment.” Retrieved February 3, 2011 from Inside Higher Education website: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/03/book_examines_free_online_course_giveaways_at_elite_american_colleges_and_universities

  OCW => OpenCourseWare ◦  Typically in the style of MIT OCW with published

courses   OER => Open Educational Resources ◦  Includes more types of resources

  LMS => Learning Management System ◦  Typically technology to support course administration,

and dissemination of materials (they can be much more but usually aren’t) ◦  Examples: iSites (which hosts the class website),

Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai   CC => Creative Commons ◦  Set of licenses that permit reuse, also a movement

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  Introduce yourselves ◦  What’s your background? ◦  What do you hope to get from the class? Is there

something you are specifically interested in? ◦  What’s one thing interesting thing about yourself

to help us get to know you better?

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  Building a new building   Implications for the publishing industry   Implications for science and math education   Access and quality

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  “How can I…improve my students’ experience today but to also prepare them for college?”

  “I hope to…[understand] the concepts and pedagogical approaches to educational delivery.”

◦  Guest speakers on designing Open curriculum, courses and course materials

12 Source: E107 Students. (2011). Assignment 0 Responses.

Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.

  “…help design and improve educational activities for outreach programs”

  “I hope to…learn about…methods in which I can apply it to science education.”

  “…teaching practices that can make me more effective as an educator”

◦  Midterm and final projects are designed to develop personal action plans

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Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.

  “Does Open CourseWare promote learning for the sake of learning?”

◦  Guest speaker from MIT OCW: Uses of MIT OCW, and others

  “Will people ever look at these courses as being at par with formal degrees?”

◦  Guest speaker from P2PU (and others Kaplan, Scholastic, Nixty)

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Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.

  “What [do] people mean when they talk about the open education ‘movement.’”

◦  Guest speakers from K-12, higher education and international perspectives

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Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.

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  Open Education is not new ◦  Primarily access to education opportunity ◦  “University without walls”, “Universities without

borders” ◦  Not just formal education at traditional colleges

and universities

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  Influences (supply side) ◦  The technology enables much: Internet/Web,

communications and networking, digital nature of content ◦  Open Source Software movement

  Problems/opportunities in education (demand side) ◦  Old problems still persist: access, opportunity ◦  New problems: demography, domains of study ◦  Changing expectations ◦  Inadequacies of existing practice

  Open education has become central to the discourse on educational change

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  What has changed in… ◦ Technology ◦ Demographics ◦  social norms and expectations

…that gives a different flavor to Open Education today?

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Generation Y Perspectives

Source: ashwinl (Poster) (2008). Generation Y Perspectives. [Slides] Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/ashwinl/nasa-geny-perspectives

  Open Educational Resources Movement   Creative Commons   Consortia and National Movements

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  Many said that they now think of open education more broadly

  You identified… ◦  A number of difficult issues with how

organizations approach education and the enablers and barriers to open education ◦  The competing agendas and issues

  Open education is being seen as synonymous with online education

  Is open education about the content, or the experience, or something else?

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  What are 3 characteristics of quality in traditional education settings? ◦  Which of these are different when you think

about open education?   What are criteria that define Open

Education?

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  If you could pick one problem in education today that open education could help substantially address, what would it be?

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  Assignment 2 is a two-part assignment: ◦  “Open education is…”   Define open education in the context of your

interests or with respect to a big problem in education

◦  What are three key characteristics of learning and learners in the 21st century?

  David Wiley is our guest speaker ◦  http://davidwiley.org/

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