#oersymposium2014 s4 p2 vincent karen

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the people’s university

(Vincent) Sheng Hung, Chung and Ean Teng, Khor

School of Science and Technology,

Wawasan Open University

OER Course Delivery Experiences

+ Design and Development of MOOCs

Initiative



Outline

• Introduction

• Motivations

• OER Initiatives – OER-based course development

– OER-based course delivery

– Subsequent course revision

• MOOCs delivery in various institutions

• OER-based MOOCs Design and Development

• Recommendations

• Conclusions



Overview

OER-based Course Development Completed (Jan 2013)

• Creation Phase – OER Modules Creation Session

– Creative Common (CC) Licensing Session

– OER Repositories Identification Session

• Evaluation Phase – Course Team Report (Internal QA, Academic Members, ID)

– Interim Reports (External Course Assessor)

• Production Phase – Layout & Editing

– OER-based Course Units

• OER Course Delivery Delivered (Semester 2013 - 2014)

– OER Resources Facilitation

– OER Repositories Facilitation

– OER Course Learning Experience

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• OER Course Revision Phase – OER Publishing and Adapting Tools

– OER Resource Sharing Platform

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OER Course Revision Phase – OER Publishing and Adapting Tools √

– OER Resource Sharing Platform √

• OER Publishing and Adapting Tools – Github-OERPUB (supports Connexions, BookType, FullMarks,

WikiBooks, etc)

– Plugins for OER in any digital format (text, coding, video, audio, images)

– Educational related genre (modules, chapters, assessments)

– Version control, file management, collaboration for coding and text

– Enable usage of resources

– Encourage remixing, repurpose and integration of the content

• OER Resource Sharing Platform

- Dropbox resource sharing

- Multiple OER Creators



OER Course Delivery – OER Resources Facilitation √

– OER Repositories Facilitation √

– OER Course Learning Experience

OER Resources Facilitation

• Concept-focused OER

OER Repositories Facilitation

• OER Portals and Gateways

• OER Commons, MERLOT, OCD, OCW Finder

• Institutional Repositories

• MIT OCW, OpenLearn, ide@s, Iconex

• Community Developed Content

• Connexions, Digg, LeMill, Wikipedia, Wikieducator

• Subject Portals

• Digital Media Resources

• Flikr, Youtube, Vimeo, Podcast Directory



OER Course Delivery – OER Resources Facilitation


– OER Course Learning Experience √

Activity in LMS (Learner’s participation rate)

July 2013 ↑ 22.85%

Jan 2014 ↑ 21.85%

Jan 2013 ↑ 18.54%

July 2012 15.51% (Non-OER)






Research Question 1

How well does this OER Course Material (Unit 1-5) meet its objectives?






Research Question 2

What characteristics would you consider to determine the quality of OER or

open textbook?






Research Question 3

Which Unit(s) of the OER course materials were most useful?






Research Question 4

What is your understanding on OER course material or open textbook?






Research Question 5

What are the most important features should be incorporated into OER

course material?



MOOCs

• MOOCs initiative – Role

– Aims (reduce costs, improve learning, increase accessibility, engage new pedagogical approaches)

– Open Online Learning Environment

– Study any course, anywhere at anytime

• Course Activities – Scheduled, Asynchronous, Flexible

– Depends on levels of participation

– Course interactions takes places (blogs, tweets, facebook)



MOOCs Delivery - Institutions in

Asia regions

Country

Participating Institutions MOOCs Platform

Malaysia Taylor’s University OpenLearning

Japan Kyoto University edX

The University of Tokyo Coursera

Korea Seoul University edX

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and

Technology

Coursera

Singapore Nanyang Technological University Coursera

National University of Singapore Coursera

China South China University of Technology

(SCUT)

Open2study

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Coursera

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Coursera

Fudan University Coursera

Peking University Coursera

The Hong Kong University of Science

and Technology

Coursera

Tsinghua University Beijing edX



Design of OER-based MOOC

Course

Area of Study Domain Controls Descriptions

1. Facilitators Professors, instructors

Guest speakers

Video lectures

Clustered subject area

2.Course Structure (Landscape) xMOOC Coursera, edX is considered as

formal, structured teaching

3. Length/Durations 4 weeks to 9 weeks

Course can begin anytime

Lesson design plan (one lesson

per week for a month),

mirroring campus-based/ODL

durations.

4. Topics/Content Introductory content

Classes and objects

Control statements

Arrays

The topics derived should

consider whether the topics

will attract MOOC learners.

5. Resources OER materials

Learning objects (LOs)

Identification of OER

resources and smaller learning

objects on the topics.

6.Participants/Target audiences Content

Language

Prior knowledge

The expected participants

should be analysed in the

aspect of content, language and

with prior knowledge of Java

program compiling and

debugging skills.



Design of OER-based MOOC

Course

7. Assessment Open-ended mini projects

Simulations

Multiple Choice Questions,

Quizzes

Short Answer

Mix and Match

Code Interpretations

Output Predictions

Lessons and assessment will be

released in a time-based

MOOC basis.

8. Grading System Learning System

Instructor, facilitator

Peer assessment (Rubric)

Self assessment

Cost effective, Rubric grading

prevents over-strict and

superficial grading. Self

evaluation is carried out after

peer assessment is done to

reinforce learning.

9. Learning Outcomes

Measurements

Establish learning outcomes Mapping and measurement of

desire outcomes according to

assessments

10. Testing and Analysis Learners with or without prior

knowledge of Java

programming

Testing and analysing the

outcome of the course before

the actual run, students

selectively review the MOOC

to provide feedbacks.

11. MOOCs Visibility Professional networks

MOOC-list

Social networks (Twitter,

Facebook, Blogs)

Engagement of social media to

promote MOOC course



Recommendations:

• Increase Openness of OER via 4 R’s approach (Reuse, Revise, Remix and Redistribute) + 5th R

• Recommendations endorsed in the OER Paris Declaration (2012)

– (i) to promote awareness and use of OER

– (ii) improve media and information literacy

– (iii) develop tools to facilitate access to OER.

Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., and Johnson, A. (2010) “The four R’s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for

Open Educational Resources.” Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 25 (1): 37-44. (Taylor & Francis Version, Open-Repository Version).

The Access Compromise and the 5th R,

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 Accessed June 2014

2012 Paris OER Declaration – Unesco

2012 WORLD OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) CONGRESS, UNESCO, PARIS, JUNE 20-22, 2012

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221



Recommendations

• “The CFS held was useful towards creation of OER content” Dr

Wong Li Pei, School of Computer Science, USM

• “I believe the external materials such as Wikibooks articles should

be useful for learners.” Prof Andrew Lui, OUHK

• “I personally think that even though these views and discussions

which are shared in CFS may differ with one another, it may also be

useful to others in a particular problem-solving or researches.”

Nadiatul Akmal, Wawasan Open University

• “I would like share what I had learned in my institution by participating

in creation of OER materials. However, I would request the

organisation to organize the workshop of the project”, Lim Chee

Keong, Wawasan Open University



Thank you

• Github – https://github.com/shchungOER

• OERPUB Bookshelf – http://shchungOER.github.io/JavaClass

– http://shchungOER.github.io/JavaObjects

– http://shchungOER.github.io/JavaControl

– http://shchungOER.github.io/Arrays

– http://shchungOER.github.io/SearchingSorting

• Wikimedian – https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shchung

• [email protected]

https://github.com/shchungOER

http://shchungoer.github.io/JavaClass

http://shchungoer.github.io/JavaObjects

http://shchungoer.github.io/JavaControl

http://shchungoer.github.io/Arrays

http://shchungoer.github.io/SearchingSorting

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shchung