Engaging in Open Education: Key Issues
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This document discusses key issues related to open education and open educational resources (OER). It defines OER as transitioning from free resources to improving education through community wisdom and knowledge sharing. Some motivations for OER include open collaboration, experimental pedagogies, and engaging learners. However, there are also tensions, such as intellectual property rules, sustainability, and measuring the impact and effectiveness of OER.
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- 1. Engaging in Open Education: Key Issues by Panagiota Alevizou Researcher @ OLnet Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University WikiSym '10, July 7-9, 2010, Gdańsk, Poland [email_address] http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/p.alevizou olnet.org
- 3. olnet.org http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartelomeus/4184705426/ OLnet aims to explore ways to learn in a more open world, linked to OER and influenced by social media Derivative, cc-by: @ karen kropper: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2978
- 6. olnet.org Concept: http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2645808133/ Quote: http://trendwatching.com/trends/2007top5.htm Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/max_westby/8723398/ Repurposed from Karen Cropper @ http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2978
- 7. Expanded from Marguliers’ (2005) conceptual mapping of OERs ( see also OECD, 2007, Conole and Weller, 2008) Implementation bodies inter-governmental organisations, consortia, translation bodies, policy and funding institutions
- 8. Motivation, collaboration & context in diverse OER communities CarnegieFoundation Unesco More info: http://olnet.org/node/103
- 12. use inscriptions in OER Engagement Prod-use Remix
- 13. Audience in OER Social learners Prod-users
Editor's Notes
- This panel will address key issues and provide empirically-grounded insights on learning about, with, and through open educational resources (OER).
- Open educational resources are learning materials that are freely shared by those who seek to learn and those who seek to teach. OERs are viewed by many as a revolutionary idea that could create more accessible and equitable education on a global scale; Yet, the benefits and challenges of OER adoption in practice are not yet understood ….adoption: doubly articulated by practitioners and users
- Funded by the Hewllet foundation, Olent explores how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences. We want to gather evidence together but also spot the ideas that people see emerging from the opportunities.
- Open educational resources are educational materials that are freely shared by those who seek to learn and those who seek to teach. OERs are viewed by many as a revolutionary idea that could create more accessible, equitable education on a global scale;
- Say about the interface and participatory infrastructures
- The (umbrella) project/research study aims to contribute a robust study of a number of current and comparative practices at an international level. This will form the basis for both evaluative approaches and the development of a working framework on the nature of openness and collaboration that characterizes the mediation of OERs, and addresses the opportunities as well as challenges relating to participatory interfaces, emerging pedagogies, adoption and (re)use.
- Expanding diversity Building communities Building cross-institutional collaborations knowledge transfer and exchange Sharing knowledge in teaching and learning Social engagement around open access content/OER
- Slides 5-6: some of the themes that exemplify stakeholder motivation: institutional Several aspects on institutional motivations Expanding diversity Building communities Building cross-institutional collaborations knowledge transfer and exchange Sharing knowledge in teaching and learning Social engagement around open access content/OER But here focus on some aspects that emerge from the motivations / and encouragement around teaching and learning innovations. cultural biases/imperialism are addressed if: a) support is provided for bottom up and situated/community based-learning; b) if more recognition and incentives are offered to academic/teaching stuff to support such movements (certainly this relates to TESSA) in order to upload their own content and initiatives portals that have achieved global reach; c) if more adaptable cultural and technical interfaces are developed/'translated' to cater for low tech infrastructures or local craftmanship & (in)formal learning cultures.
- Teacher training to be aligned with a more open sharing culture and national OER strategies Relevance, context and reward were identified as fundamental components for motivating teachers and students to participate in the OER movement P rofessional incentives and training are needed to address reduced tutor confidence, time/resource limitations and technical expertise An issue about emphasing problems in learning and not just successes, emerges; The question is whether and how OER are more suitable to address this.
- Inscriptions based on discourse and social interface that allows not just downloading but also interaction and user augmented content The use of OER by the single learner and for self-regulated learning has been suggested (Remmele and Seeber, 2009; Schuwer and Mulder, 2009). Though Schuwer and Mulder (2009) identify the need to support online interaction between individuals and communities. MIT's approach perhaps also suggests singular learning - Vest discusses use of MIT resources by other lecturers. tensions: institutional affiliation / legacy / mentoring / the interface and structures of participation TESSA encourages group work rather than independent learning and the community is in a face to face setting as technology is not mediating the interaction - ref? Freda paper in IRRODL??
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndbritton/4170987860/# Britton P2pU