Localizing & Learning

Educating Educators within Open Learning Environments

Questions from this morning…• Beyond anecdotal evidence, what examples do we have of

open education transforming the traditional methods of teaching and learning?

• What drives more participation in open education in ways that learners, educators, projects, and institutions can be truly engaged and rewarded?

• What (more) can the community do to help open education projects become more rigorous, reflective, and effective about sustainability?

• How can Higher Education get more ready for Opening Up Education?

Overview

• Breaking down open education• Creating open learning environments– Open educational practices and resources– Traditional instructional principles

• Courses as examples• Lessons Learned• Questions that Linger

Open Education?

Education ≠ Content

“Content is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for education.”

- David Wiley

After Content, People Need…

• Help understanding what it means• Help engaging in meaningful practice• Feedback about their practice (more help)• More practice• More feedback• A sense that someone cares how they do

Source: David Wiley

open

Openness …

Remove barriers to

participation

Encourage and foster

participation to community

Connection …

open

connected

Learner to learner

Learner to facilitator

Learner to world

Support …

open

supported

Someone to offer help and support learner

How can open education work in a traditional learning environment?

open

supported

“Information that does not include presentation, practice and learner guidance is information but not instruction.”

- David Merrill

Open Learning Environment

OpenInstructi

on

OpenEducationalResources

How to blend open

educational

practices with traditio

nal instructional

principles

How to use and re-use OERs

Course Overview

• Technology for Preservice Teachers– W301– W210/W310

• Foundations of Instructional Technology (r511)• Wikiversity.org• WebCast Academy.net

Teacher Technology Integration Courses (w210, w301, w310)

Present

Wiki Based

OERs

Face-to-face / Discussions

R511: Introduction to IST

Present

Colloquium Podcast

Readings

Flash Presentation (Molenda)

Wikiverisity.org Project

Present

Wiki Based

Asynchronous

Multi-media

WebcastAcademy.net

Present

Live Webcasts

Screencasts

Drupal Based Web Site

Lessons Learned

Open learning environments …• Encourage, recognize, and maintain learner

contributions• Offer authentic learning contexts• Advance prior knowledge – from previous courses– from community of learners

• Bring new challenges …

Questions that Linger

• Evaluation– How do we make sure that instructional materials we produce

are quality open educational resources?• Archive Management– How do we make sure users interested can gain access

appropriate open educational resources?• Feedback– How do we provide feedback to users in open educational

resources we design?• Community Contributions– How do we encourage quality contributions from inside and

outside community members?