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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3 flickr/marcwathieu. cc by-nc-sa.

  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

11 Source: E107 Students. (2011). Assignment 2 Responses.

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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