An Introduction to Openness in Learning in a Digital Age

1. An Introduction to Openness in Learning in a Digital Age Greig Krull 24 July 2014

2. Outline

3. Openness??? • Open learning • Open access • Open education practice • Open educational resources • Open licensing • Open source • Open data Adapted from Czerniewicz(2012) CC-BY-SA Open Sourxe.com CC-BY-SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5535034664/

4. What does Openness mean?

5. Why the need for openness? Equal Right to Participate Sharing

6. The rise of Openness… “The real revolution is that universities, with scarcity at the heart of their business models, are embracing openness” Sir John Daniel (2012)

7. What is Open Learning? • Remove barriers to learning • Provide students reasonable chance for success • Centred on learner needs • Flexibility and choice over what, when, where and how they learn JISC CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events

8. Principles for Open Learning Saide (2012) [CC-BY]

9. Open Educational Resources (OER) “Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and − under some licenses − to remix, improve and redistribute”

10. OER examples include textbooks, videos, podcasts, simulations, websites, course materials and more

11. Open Licenses Open licenses allow you to copy and distribute material, without requiring payment or permission

12. A Spectrum of Licenses

13. What are MOOCs? Mathieu Plourde CC-BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/10425003764/

14. Introduce topics with high-profile presenters Special interest topics for postgraduates Introduce fields and support for undergraduates Continuing educationand qualifications Develop skills and introduce topics for postgraduates Deacon, A, Small, J and Walji, S (2014) [CC-BY-SA]

15. Course Landscape in Higher Education Deacon, A, Small, J and Walji, S (2014) [CC-BY-SA]

16. MOOC Platforms

17. Free and Open Source Software • Software distributed along with its source code • Able to use and/or modify the design • Low-cost technology option • Opportunities for education opensource.com [CC-BY-SA] https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4624425596/

18. Freeand Open Source Tools Adapted from: Cavazza, Social Media Landscape [CC-BY-NC-SA] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcavazza/2564571564/

19. Open Access • Rising prices of academic journals have meant some too expensive to access • Open Access: articles that are freely and openly available for reading, reviewing and distributing derivative works

20. http://aoasg.org.au/

21. Questions for Reflection…

22. 1. Do you have a plan or strategy for open education? JISC CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.jisc.ac.uk/content/resources

23. 2. Do you have a plan or strategy for learning technologies or new methods of delivery? Fryer CC-BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/7842702898/

24. 3. What kind of teachers should we be when learning is mostly open and online? Vanguard Visions [CC-BY] https://www.flickr.com/photos/77018488@N03/9315194075/

25. Thank You! greigk@saide.org.za greigk_za Greig Krull This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

26. References • Bates, T and Sangra, A (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning. John Wiley & Sons. • Butcher, N and Hoosen, S (2014). A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education. Academic Partnerships [CC-BY-SA] • Czerniewicz, L. 2012. Open Education: Why it matters to South Africa • Daniel, J (2012). Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. [CC-BY] • Deacon, A, Small, J and Walji, S (2014). Developing World MOOCs: A workshop on MOOCs in Africa. e/merge Africa. [CC-BY-SA] • Saide (2012). Empowering Learners through Open Learning. [CC-BY] http://www.saide.org.za/11-open-learning