Presentation of Fred Truyen on Open Education at the traditional university Part of the #ocwcglobal workshop on Getting Started with Open Education

1. Open Education @ the Traditional
University
Frederik Truyen
(KU Leuven, Belgium)
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2. Open Education
“...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge
is a public good and that technology in general and the
Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary
opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse
knowledge.”
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

3. WAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE
UNIVERSITY?
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4. Adapting to the Knowledge economy
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and
Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.
Learning economy
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Open
knowledge
economy
Yochai Benkler
Creative
economy
Charles Landry,
John Howkins,
Richard Florida

5. New supply chains & diversified
competition
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Knowledge industry
University
Professional
training
MOOCs
SPOCs
OCW

6. Changed HE Environment
Pervasive ICT
Mobile
workers
Life Long
Learners
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7. Preparing for the mobile knowledge
worker

8. For Who?
On-Campus
Students
Alumni
Professionals
Life-Long-Learners
Stakeholder communities
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Future Learners
Candidate Students

9. Adapting to new ways of Learning
• George Siemens, Stephen Knowles stress the
collaborative creation of knowledge in a network
(Connectivism)
• Harry Collins highlights the importance of tacit
knowledge and interactive expertise
• Importance of informal learning, on-the job learning,
LLL

10. Personal Learning Environments
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11. The University needs to adapt
• Adapting operations
• Adapting teaching models
• Adapting logistics and delivery models
• Explore new revenue models
• >> Open is a value proposition in each
scenario
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12. Applications
• Attracting new students
• Offering flexible Crossovers
• Study selection
• Refresher courses
• Updating course contents
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13. Global realities
• In the international context, other selection
criteria for students are necessary
• It’s about attracting the right students at the
right moment
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14. MOOC
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15. SPOCs vs. Open courses
• SPOCs offer many advantages of open learning
• … but fail to benefit from discovery, cross-
fertilisation and seredipity of open courses
• They lack the inherent quality enforcement of
Open courses
• Not scalable
• High cost for limited gain
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16. Learning Commons
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AGORA KU Leuven
http://bib.kuleuven.be/agora

17. Optimizing performance: Learning
Analytics
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18. Certification
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19. Excellence in Research … and Teaching?
Collaborate
Reuse
Invent
Share
Lead
Excel
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