Professor Sandra WillsPVC (Student Learning)Charles Sturt University

Australia

blending open & free with closed & for fee CC BY-NC-SA

regional university 40,000 students 70% distance education all courses online all courses connect with

indigenous concerns all courses connect with

professional practice

CSU Online Learning Model

Learning space for lectures

Learning space for professional practice

Learning space for developing learning resources, learning communities & digital literacies

Co-createdConnected

Learning Commons: for books or

for learning communities?

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Learning space for flipped and connected

Tele-presence

Tele-presence

Middle East Politics SimulationDeakin, CSU and others

Heart Bot, Virtual Patient Glasgow Caledonian University

Does virtual replace actual?Simulations: practising skills in professional situations

Role Plays: ethical dilemmas of professional practice

virtual complements actual by scaffolding learner experiencesbefore and/or after actual

virtual connects off-campus & on-campus

Not only aiming for learning resources to be co-created and learning spaces to be connected…. but also

Open

Room for more partners – watch this space!

Why offer open resources & courses?ouse of tax payer money for closed purposes is a social justice issue olower cost of university education for disadvantaged learnersoattract students not currently in reach, especially international students

What is Credit-by-Examination?

“What you know is more important than how or where you learned it.”

Credit-by-examination (aka credit by assessment) allows students to prove their knowledge, regardless of how that knowledge was gained, by taking an exam.

Exams designed for credit test content equivalent to common college-level courses and undergo rigorous quality control.

Developed and maintained by Excelsior College since the 1970s.

Administered at 4,000 Pearson Testing Centers worldwide.

Exam fees = $95 - $415, depending on length and format (no separate seat fees).

Excelsior College Examinations (ECEs) & UExcel Exams

Five Steps to Low Cost, High Quality Bachelors Degrees

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needed to

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of assessment

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assessments

using OER

study material

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course

online

Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

Cost of Credit by Challenge Exam

Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458 Cost of Credit by RPL

Why use open resources & courses?ocost efficiencies in course development by blending local content with open contentointernationalisation of course contentointernationalisation of learning interaction

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Stats from a recent Australian MOOC

blending

open & free students with

closed & for fee students

mOOCs and micro-credentials

Commonwealth of Learning, 2013

unbundle& blend

Acknowledgement: Judith Murray, at the time Vice President, Open Learning Thomson Rivers University, Canada

More questions than answers at this stage…

not only about developing MOOCs & OERsmore about reuse of other’s MOOCs and OERs within your coursesmostly about assessing & crediting other’s MOOCs and OERs as pathways into your degreehow far should we go?

Degree

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Blending: open subjects in a degree open resources in a subject open students in a class open platforms & institutional LMS

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