e107 open education practice and potential: session 3
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Session 3 for Education E-107, Open Education Practice and Potential, Spring 2011 (Harvard University Extension) taught by M.S. Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu.TRANSCRIPT
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.
Begin exploring Open Education in Depth Open Education and Courses ◦ Guest Speaker: David Wiley
Review ◦ “Open Education is…” ◦ Characteristics of learning and learners
Administrivia ◦ News ◦ Discussion Forums and participation ◦ Miss a session? How to make up in-class
participation Next Week ◦ Assignment 3+4 and DeLaina Tonks & Joel Thierstein
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What are the value propositions, advantages and challenges with open for courses and the curriculum…from the perspectives of administrators, educators and learners?
How does what he says, address those issues that you care about?
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Many things to different people Access, eliminating barriers to entry, at lower costs Provides opportunity ◦ to diverse and sometimes non-traditional populations ◦ and to change the existing educational paradigm
Content/materials for use and reuse in teaching and learning
Catalyst for enabling many things Liberation and empowerment, “Equal” learning Interconnected Practice Flexibility to accommodate student differences Measure accountability Sharing best practices and approaches Participatory
7 Source: E107 Students. (2011). Assignment 2 Responses.
Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.
Some things that stood out… ◦ More about process than product ◦ Finding, getting, using ◦ Learning versus teaching ◦ The notion of “free” (for whom) ◦ Going beyond technology and online ◦ Learning opportunities as different from (formal)
educational opportunity ◦ Flexibility
Some bigger issues to consider ◦ Paradigm of abundance ◦ Teaching to learning
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The elimination of “unfreedoms”, knowledge, education, health.
– Amartya Sen
Investment in human capital creates positive multiplier effects on family and next generation.
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Learning Accessibility of
information Speed and
availability Multiple forms of
media Flexibility
Learners Doers, producers Motivation Collaborative Socially networked Multi-task Efficiencies Fluent in multiple
literacies, cultures
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Open Education Practice and Potential. Spring 2011.
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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
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14 Source: Watters, A. (2011, February 9). “Building Alternative Assessment & Accreditation Systems for Open Education Learners.” Retrieved February 10, 2011 from Hack Education website: http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/09/building-alternative-assessment-accreditation-systems-for-open-education-learners/
We have them now! We expect you to participate in them!
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Some of you might miss a class session, but you can make up your participation score (for up to 3 missed sessions)
Identify a current issue in Open Education, post it to the course forums, and provide an analysis of the issues involved.
Follow OpenEducationNews.org Setup Google Alert for “Open Education”,
“Open Education Resources”, OpenCourseWare
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Assignment 3+4 is a combined, group assignment ◦ What are the value propositions, advantages and
challenges with open for courses and the curriculum…from the perspectives of administrators, educators and learners? ◦ See the Assignments page for more details
DeLaina Tonks and Joel Thierstein are our guest speakers
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