Session 3 for Education E-107, Open Education Practice and Potential, Spring 2011 (Harvard University Extension) taught by M.S. Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu.

1. EDUC E-107
Spring 2011
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Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2011). Open Education: Practice and Potential.
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2.  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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4.  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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7.  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 Source: E107 Students. (2011). Assignment 2 Responses.
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8.  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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9. 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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11. Learning Learners
 Accessibility of  Doers, producers
information  Motivation
 Speed and  Collaborative
availability  Socially networked
 Multiple forms of
 Multi-task
media
 Efficiencies
 Flexibility
 Fluent in multiple
literacies, cultures
Source: E107 Students. (2011). Assignment 2 Responses.
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12. 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:
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 We have them now!
 We expect you to participate in them!
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16.  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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17.  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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