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From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare

Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected] Office of Educational Innovation

and Technology

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Citation: Muramatsu, B., (2010). From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare.Presented at OER’11: Manchester, UK, May 12, 2011.

With aSpace


Continuing the Cat Meme…

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But I’m a dog person…

…everyone say, “Awwwww!”

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The talk I was going to give was going to go something like…

We’re experimenting with what we can do with the course materials published in MIT OpenCourseWare –for– MIT.

Namely, let’s restructure the materials and import them into Moodle and build assessments around them … turning them into “real” Open CourseWare.

And then, here’s a working example and what we learned… But…

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Somewhere along the wayI got sidetracked…

This little conference in [the other] Cambridge…

http://bit.ly/ocwcglobal-wrapup

…so, my apologies…

Instead I’ll describe the motivation and process we will be exploring this summer.

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Caveats

I’m with the MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT)I don’t work for MIT OpenCourseWareI *do* work with themSo, I don’t represent MIT OpenCourseWare

Also, I’m not making institutional commitments about MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare

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@bmuramatsu


Wouldn’t it be great ifMIT OpenCourseWare…?

About a year ago…Early 2010

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MIT OCW is a Publication

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.OCW is not an MIT education.OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.Materials may not reflect entire content of the

course.

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Reference: MIT OCW. (2010). About OCW. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm


…but…we’re at MIT, certainly we should be able to do more

with OpenCourseWare…Wouldn’t it be great if

MIT OCW…?

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…aha!We were asking the wrong question!

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What if we experimented with MIT OCW…?


Sure…OEIT can develop a custom copy of MIT OCW

Mirror of MIT OCW site

Within boundaries of Creative CommonsLicense, by-nc-sa

Project Greenfield

http://greenfield.mit.edu

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Project Greenfield

MIT Faculty have asked us about… InteractivityTools and services Innovative browse mechanisms

OEIT’s goals are to:Support MIT faculty Experiment, to show what’s possible (e.g., Web 2.0)Prototype tools and services

… all with MIT OCW course materials

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Project Greenfield


Further MotivationsOEIT

Experiment with tools, content delivery

Internal to MITLots of internal discussions Increase use of MIT OCW for on-campus coursesExperiment with other LMS/VLEs

External to MIT Increase in OER and especially open course

development (Saylor Foundation saylor.org, Washington SBCTC Open Textbooks, etc.)

New models in certification (P2PU, KNEXT, etc.)

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“New” (Old?) Terminology

Open CourseWare

Especially in the context of the Educause Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) program

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Open CourseWare Should facilitate rich interactivity with instructor, peers, and

content;

Must be of the highest pedagogical and technical quality, integrating effective teaching strategies and interactive technologies;

Should include clear student learning objectives and assessment strategies that monitor and review student success;

Must be standards-based to ensure they can be used broadly, yet be customizable to the needs of different learners/instructors (including persons with disabilities); [and]

Should be openly licensed to allow institutions and faculty to tailor to local needs and improve the courseware over time.

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Reference: Next Generation Learning Challenges. (2011). Open Core CourseWare.Retrieved May 11, 2011 from Next Generation Learning Challenges Website:

http://nextgenlearning.org/the-grants/wave-1-challenges/open-core-courseware/articles/open-core-courses


MIT OpenCourseWareServes a number of user groups:

Faculty looking to teach a new subject, to see how other faculty (esp. MIT faculty) teach courses

Students, at MIT and elsewhere, looking for resources to help them with a course

Independent learners

Is a publicationSnapshot of courses taught by a particular faculty in a

particular termHas whatever materials the faculty made availableTypically has slides and lecture notes, perhaps

assignments and exams.

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MIT OCW Scholar Goals

Designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them.

The courses are substantially more complete than typical OCW courses and include new custom-created content as well as materials repurposed from MIT classrooms.

The materials are also arranged in logical sequences and include multimedia such as video and simulations.

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Reference: MIT OCW. (2011). OCW Scholar. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/


Features of OCW Scholar Courses Modularized Content

With Quizzes

Includes Video

Includes link to OpenStudy groups

Good step, but pretty big concept chunks

Formative assessments, but static and in PDF format <- consistent with other MIT OCW materials

Link to specific time segments

Can ask a question and get an answer, but still not a “course”

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Designed for independent learners


What are others doing to build upon MIT OpenCourseWare?—OpenStudy

Allowing users to connect with other learners OpenStudy (9 courses)

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6.00 Introduction to Computer Science18.01 Single Variable Calculus (Fall 2006)6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs6.002 Circuits and Electronics8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics8.02 Electricity and Magnetism18.01 Single Variable Calculus (Fall 2006)18.02 Multivariable Calculus18.06 Linear Algebra

Source: OpenStudy http://openstudy.com/questions/A-6500-kg-helicopter-accelerates-upward-at-0.60-ms-while-lifting-a-1200-kg-car.--a-What-is-the-lift-force-exerted-by-the-air-on-the-r-4cbd2903fddb3a7f0a66df45


What are others doing to build upon MIT OpenCourseWare?—Nixty

“Tracking progress through a course”Nixty-versions of MIT OCW Courses

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Source: Nixty, http://nixty.com/course/Physics-I-Classical-Mechanics-MIT-Walter-Lewin


What are others doing to build upon MIT OCW ?—Saylor Foundation

Remixing OERs, including MIT OCW

Includes Learning Outcomes

Adding Final Assessments

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Source: Saylor Foundation, http://www.saylor.org/courses/ma252


Reusing Courses, or Teaching directly from OERs/OCWs

Questions of scale, and…

How much investment are you willing to undertake?

For example, MIT OCW, consistent with their mission takes a large investment to achieve the breadth, instead of focusing on all the other things that would make “Open CourseWare”

How much investment is necessary to create a “course” from the course materials?

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So what does this mean for the project?

Other Developments andOCW Scholar

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Interactivity

“Should facilitate rich interactivity with instructor, peers, and content.”

I’m not sure about this one yet.

External OERs and learning objects?

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High Quality

“Must be of the highest pedagogical and technical quality, integrating effective teaching strategies and interactive technologies.”Arguably, high quality alreadyBut, not designed for “teaching from…”Newly designed for “learning from…”Not especially interactive—but lots of resources out

there

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Learning Objectives and Assessment

“Should include clear student learning objectives and assessment strategies that monitor and review student success.”Snapshot of course, with materials provided by

facultyBroadly speaking only engineering faculty have

somewhat detailed learning objectives (because of accreditation)

May or may not include assessments

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Customizable

“Must be standards-based to ensure they can be used broadly, yet be customizable to the needs of different learners/instructors.”Arguably already broadly used, but room for

improvementTechnically hard to customize, because of how

materials are published (PDF)

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What might the end result look like(for MIT)?

OCW Scholar + Collaboration + Assesments + Facilitators = Open CourseWare

Might be an ongoing instantiation of a massively open online course

Probably be able to import this Open CourseWare course into your LMS/VLE

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OpenEd 2011

OpenEd 2011, October 24-27

Park City, Utah <-It’s not Logan! Think ski resort!

Call for Presentations: Monday, May 16Presentations, Open Science Fair, Questioning Our

Assumptions

http://OpenEdConference.org

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Thanks!

Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected] Office of Educational Innovation

and Technology

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Citation: Muramatsu, B., (2010). From OpenCourseWare to Open CourseWare.Presented at OER’11: Manchester, UK, May 12, 2011.


Greenfield as a Platform

ToolsIntegrated RecommenderVideo ToolsConcept Tools [Jeff Merriman’s presentation]CaPRéT [newly funded JISC project]

Instructional Design and Assessments

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Integrated Recommender

Recommender relates contentMIT OCW Courses -> MIT OCW Courses

? MIT OCW Courses <-> OERs

Based on Folksemantic.com/OER RecommenderCurrently overlay of OCW/OER sites

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MIT Faculty: Dave Pritchard, Physics & Haynes Miller, Mathematics


Intrasite Hyperlinking (cont.)

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Concept Browser

OCW is working on providing concept-type descriptions for some course materialsOCW Scholar

Concept level (1-10 concepts per course)Includes learning objectives, some formative assessmentCreated by faculty

Core Concept CatalogVery high-level, course conceptsHand applied

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Concept Browser

What are we doing?iPad application (Vijay Umapathy, M.Eng. student)

Search by concept, browse multiple media (text and video)“Playback” from the concept

Core Concept Catalog

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Intrasite Hyperlinking(Link within the site)

Cross-reference key terms internally across all OCW content? Service:

? Could limit to OCW content, or expand to selected/all OER repositories

? Could link to Wikipedia for definitions

? Development:? Needs subject list, key terms, controlled vocabulary

? Testing with content experts for relevance of search results

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CaPRéT(Cut and Paste Reuse Tracking tool)

Cut and paste from a lecture? Simple cut and paste supported from HTML pages

~Simple cut and paste possible from PDF/Word/etc.

? What about tynt.com-style support? When the user highlights text, an automatic linkback to exact

location in original page is created

? Extend tynt.com to add attribution information automatically and pasted with text

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Reference: Muramatsu, B. (2009, August 27). Plagiarism is Good™ Revisited. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from Brandon Muramatsu’s Website: http://www.mura.org/2009/08/plagiarism-is-good-revisited/


Building Upon MIT OpenCourseWare

These work well because MIT OpenCourseWare remains a publication“Magnify the value of [the] publication.”

These services are provided and supported external to MIT OpenCourseWareVery “light” integration (page/links or copy of content)

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare. (2010). MIT OpenCourseWare Teams Up with OpenStudy to Help OCW Users Connect and Study Together [Press Release]. Retrieved from:http://ocw.mit.edu/about/media-coverage/press-releases/mit-opencourseware-teams-up-with-openstudy-to-help-ocw-users-connect-and-study-together/

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