OPEN EDUCATION:

PRACTICE AND POTENTIAL

M.S. VIJAY KUMAR

BRANDON MURAMATSU

EDUC E-107Spring 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.

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Goals for this Session

NewsContinuing our discussions on Open

Education and sustainability◦Understanding the impact of Creative Commons

on Open EducationGuest Speaker: Cathy Casserly

Review of Lopez & Frank, Assignments 6Technology and Open EducationMidterm Assignment

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News Related to Open Education

Source: Thomas, A. (2011, March 7). Making the most of open content: why we need to understand use. Retrieved on March 10, 2011 from JISC Information Environment Team website at: http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/03/07/opencontentstories/

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Guest Speaker

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Things to listen for with our guest speaker…

◦What are the value propositions, advantages and challenges with open and institutions?

◦What are issues of policy and sustainability that impact open and institutions?

◦How does what our guest speaker(s) say, address those issues that you care about?

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Catherine CasserlyCEO, Creative Commons

Former Director, Open Education Resources Initiative, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Continuing our Discussions…

Recap of Lopez & Frank

Last time we talked about unique characteristics of open…

Reading on Sustainability

Technology and Open Education

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From Last Time…Unique Characteristics of OpenSharing/shareableDigitalFreeAbility to reuseAccessibilityFree flow of informationReuse versus replicationCollaboration

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What did you take away from the reading on sustainability?

The crucial long-term sustainability question for OE projects appears to be “How do we acquire an adequate and ongoing stream of financial resources to keep our project running?”. This leads immediately to considering various tactical programs to generate revenue; unfortunately, such programs often fail. The …view is that a tactical approach is myopic because it focuses too much attention on the “product”—the features of the project and the technology underlying it—and not enough attention on understanding the users and working deliberately to grow their value.

Source: Baraniuk, R. (2008). Challenges and opportunities for the open education movement: a Connexions case study. In T. Iiyoshi and M.S. Kumar (Eds.), Opening up education: the collective advancement of

education through open technology, open content, and open knowledge (pp. 237-238). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Technology and Open Education

We’ve talked about advantages, benefits, challenges for open education…

And thought about open in your contexts and interests…

What are technologies that come to mind for you?◦Describe the technology◦Why is it important? What are the

requirements?

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Technology and Open Education

What are your thoughts? Course packs Web Lecture videos Podcasts Wikipedia Electricity and computers E-libraries Blogs Skype Google Chat Portable devices Content editing platforms/wikis iPhones Google docs and sharing Moodle (open source learning management system) Voice thread Tag and search tools Repository/drop boxes Vimeo Mindmeister (collaborative mindmapping tools)cioa What are the requirements that make these as candidate technologies for education

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Next Up

Happy Spring Break!◦No Class March 17

Midterm Assignment Due March 21◦See the Assignments page for more details

Guest SpeakerCandace Thille, Open Learning Initiative