OPEN EDUCATION: PRACTICE AND POTENTIAL

M.S. VIJAY KUMAR

BRANDON MURAMATSU

EDUC E-107Spring 2011

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Unless otherwise specified, Copyright 2011, Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu.Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2011). Open Education: Practice and Potential.

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Goals for this Session

News: OCWC Global 2011

Midterm◦Good dialogue with those of you that have responded

to our comments

Policy Issues and Open Education◦Guest Speaker: Mike Smith

Continuing our discussion of technology and how it can impact Open Education

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News Related to Open Education

Many of our guest speakers will be in Cambridge:David Wiley, Steve Carson, Joel Thierstein, Gary Lopez,

Cathy Casserly, Mike Smith, Philipp Schmidt

Tom Caswell (representing Cable Green’s organization)

$100 Student Registrations

http://conferences.ocwconsortium.org/

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Marshall “Mike” SmithFormer Director of International Affairs and

Senior Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of EducationFormer Director of Education,

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Credit: U.S. Department of Education

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Assignment 8

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Technology and Open Education

Were any of the technologies posted designed for education?

Did any of the technologies surprise you?

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Enablers / Challenges

Change in Roles◦Multiple inputs (Elluminate chat and lecture)◦ Learning from others, everyone is a teacher

Back channel discussions◦Elluminate chat, Twitter, others

Transparency◦Blog posts, commentary

Feedback loops and analytics◦Blog comments, discussion threads◦YouTube “views”, discussion analysis (posts, reply

depth)

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Enablers / Challenges

Class participation / self-learning◦Motivation, requirements?

Ratings for “Like”◦Star ratings on Slideshare, Likes on Facebook

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Demo: Linking Contentand The Curriculum

A vision in the context of anascent university in India

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Next Week

Assignment 9, Due April 4◦ 200 word description of your project, 2 minute

oral presentation during the last hour of the April 7 class

◦See the Assignments page for more details

Guest Speakers on International Issues in Open Education◦Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation, JISC◦Asha Kanwar, Vice President, Commonwealth of

Learning