Open Education: Totally pointless or a mean to modernize traditional formal education?
#OCWCGlobal Open education at the traditional university
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Open Education @ the Traditional University
Frederik Truyen(KU Leuven, Belgium)
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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
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WAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY?
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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 economyBengt-Åke Lundvall
Open knowledge economy
Yochai Benkler
Creative economy
Charles Landry, John Howkins, Richard Florida
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New supply chains & diversified competition
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Knowledge industry
University
Professional training
MO
OCs
SPOCs
OCW
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Changed HE Environment
Pervasive ICT
Mobile workers
Life Long Learners
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Preparing for the mobile knowledge worker
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For Who?
On-Campus Students
Alumni
Professionals
Life-Long-Learners
Stakeholder communities
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Future LearnersCandidate Students
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
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Personal Learning Environments
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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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Applications
• Attracting new students• Offering flexible Crossovers• Study selection• Refresher courses• Updating course contents
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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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MOOC
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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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Learning Commons
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AGORA KU Leuvenhttp://bib.kuleuven.be/agora
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Optimizing performance: Learning Analytics
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Certification
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Excellence in Research … and Teaching?
Collaborate
Reuse
InventShare
Lead
Excel
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