Welcome to FSLT12First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education23 May 2012 1500-1700

Agenda• 1430-1500 (pre-session) Open space time: settling in

– Guide to Collaborate• http://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/files/2012/03/Blackboard-Collaborate-Qui

ck-Guide-for-Participants.pdf

• 1500-1515 Walk through the Collaborate interface • 1515-1530 Welcome from Rhona Sharpe• 1530-1545 Introduction to the course (George)• 1545-1600 Reflective Practice (Marion)• 1600-1630 Open Academic Practice (George)• 1630-1645 Open Questions and Answers• 1645-1700 Other Collaborate Rooms

– The Assessment Group Room– Open Room

WALK THROUGH COLLABORATE

George Roberts1500-1515

Walk through

• http://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/files/2012/03/Blackboard-Collaborate-Quick-Guide-for-Participants.pdf

Collaborate

User tools

• Smileys• Out of the room• Raise hand• Polling• Click to talk

Recording the session

• We will be recording the session• The recordings will be publicly available

– Although the links will only be posted to the FSLT12 sites

• The text chat is semi-private – Moderators can see all text chat– Even private messages

Leaving the session

• At the end be sure you exit the session• The recording cannot be saved until everyone

has left the room.

WELCOME TO THE COURSE

Rhona Sharpe1515-1530

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WELCOME TO #FSLT12

WHO ARE WE?

WHO/WHAT IS OCSLD?

WHO/WHAT IS OCSLD?

FROM OER TO MOOC

• Funded by JISC/HEA OER Strand 3

• for OERs in Postgraduate Certificates in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

• Builds on OCSLD’s experience of running online courses

• Engages new lecturers in open academic practice…

• …beyond the resource-based discourses of OER.

OER crossroads from wikieducator.comhttp://wikieducator.org/Educators_care/OER_Benefits_and_myths

OPEN ACADEMIC PRACTICE

Contributing to the Brookes resource repository (RADAR)

Releasing our materials to the educational development community

Aggregation, remixing, repurposing

Social citation/annotation

Distributed collaboration

Community based learning pedagogy

Widening access

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

George Roberts1530-1545

http://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/

Approach• Dialogue

– We talk a lot, in groups• Autonomy

– You are responsible for your own learning– Teacher as Resource not The Source

• Openness– Resources and Practice

• Social Construction of Knowledge– “Connectivism”– Make connections

• Personal Learning Networks (PLN)– Sustain connections

• Research-informed

Research

The goal of the research is to evaluate the learner experience of the MOOC in order to stimulate discussion amongst the educational development community about the benefits, opportunities and risks of this approach.

• Participant information sheet• Consent form• Course Evaluation

http://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/research/

Topics

• First steps curriculumhttp://openbrookes.net/firststeps12/course-practice/the-first-steps-curriculum/

• UK Professional Standards Frameworkhttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ukpsf

• Open Academic Practice

First Steps

Six topics realised through resources and asynchronous dialogue

1. Supporting Learning2. Reflective Practice3. Teaching (Small) Groups4. Feedback5. Lecturing6. Evaluation

UK PSF Woven Through

• Areas of Activity– Designing and Planning Learning Activities

• Activity 3

– Teaching and Supporting Learning• First Steps Curriculum• Activity 2

– Engaging in CPD• Activity 1 Reflective Practice• Participation in this (and other) course(s)

• Core Knowledge– Subject knowledge– Teaching methods– Using and valuing appropriate learning technologies

3 Activities

• Reflective Statement• Collaborative Bibliography• Microteaching

• Multiple modes of engagement– Blog community, discussion forums, wikis, open

discussion “room”– Participant-led Social Media: Twitter, Google+, Facebook

• Mandatory for assessment and certificate

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

Marion Waite1545-1600

Reflection- Contribution and Critique

• What do we learn from the Stephen Brookfield ‘reflective lenses’?

Reflection-what is it?

• An approach to education• A way of gaining evidence from practice• A means of life-long learning• A way of going about practice/a way of

thinking about practice

Key elements

• Central starting point is always practice• Begins with an emotional response to a

practice event• Involves sense-making and action

(double-loop learning)

Reflective practice resources #fslt12

Three digital stories– Lens of their own autobiography as teachers

and  learners– Lens of students eyes– Lens of colleagues experiences

Page (wiki) reflective practice OERs– Lens of educational literature

Reflective practice discussion forum

OPEN ACADEMIC PRACTICE

George Roberts1600-1630

Dimensions of openness

Openness

• Schedule– Start/stop– Pace

• Access– Qualifications

• Licence– Re-use

• Technology

• Direction– Tutor-led– Peer-led

• Orientation– Inductive/

deductive– Visual/verbal

• Dialogue

Resource-based learning

Resource-based learning (RBL)

• Distance learning - traditional• Open Courseware

– MITx, Edx• Dialogic learning• Distributed collaboration• Role of the teacher

Open Educational Resources

• Broad senseOpen Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.

(OER Commons, http://www.oercommons.org/ )

• Strict sense– Described & Discoverable

• Resource description and metadata

– Disseminated through a formal repository– Deployed through a learning management system– Licensed for re-use

Open academic practice

Open academic practice

• Distributed collaboration– local and wide-area,

• Social citation• Synchronous and asynchronous online discussion

around open multimedia content• Mobile (nomadic) learning,• Widening access and social/global justice,• Pedagogy

– Inquiry-led, Research-based, Evidence-informed– Modelling practice in professional communities

• We believe that open academic practice is an element of best academic practice.

• If we want lecturers and institutions to be among the world’s leading universities, we must adopt open academic practices on an open academic platform.

Next week

• 30 May 2012 1500-1700 BST• Frances Bell• The role of Openness by Academics in the

Transformation of their Teaching and Learning Practices

• Pre-reading– http://vle.openbrookes.net/mod/resource/view.p

hp?id=106

OPEN QUESTIONS1630-1645

Your questions

OTHER ROOMS1645-1700

Other rooms• Assessment room

– A private room for the group undertaking assessment

• Open room– MOOC FSLT12 GENERAL USE

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Log out

• Thank you all and good luck with the course

• To log out “Quit Blackboard Collaborate”• Assessment group please log out and log back in to the

private room• All others, you are welcome to log in to the public open

room to continue your discussions if you wish.• See you on line and in this room next week

– Wednesday 30 May 1500 BST– Frances Bell

• “Role of Openness in Transforming Practice”• http://vle.openbrookes.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=106