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Jenni Parker

Openness as counter-narrative (#OMDE) | opendistanceteachingandlearning - 0 views

  • Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist”
  • Exploring the complex “supersystem” of higher education, Wiley and Hilton (2009) state that there is an alarming disconnect between higher education and broader society or “supersystem”. The major six disconnections, according to Wiley and Hilton (2009, pp.1-5) are the move from analog to digital, the move from tethered to mobile, from isolated to connected, from generic to personal from consumers to creators and from closed to open
  • There is an increase in free sharing “on a scale never before seen” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, p.3)
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  • Despite the dramatic and pervasiveness of the impact of these changes; “higher education has largely ignored these changes in its supersystem” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, 3). While higher education had the monopoly on knowledge production in eras past, it no longer does. Not only has higher education lost its monopoly in knowledge production, but higher education has also lost its monopoly on “access to teachers, tutors, and others who could answer student questions and support them academically in their learning” (Wiley & Hilton, 2009, p.6).
  • In the light of the above, Wiley and Hilton (2009, p.8) state that higher education’s only possible response is to increase connectedness, personalization, participation, and openness.
  • “Of these four, a significant increase in openness is the most pressing priority for higher education because a culture of openness is a prerequisite to affordable, large-scale progress in the other three areas”.
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    Rob, towards the end of this articles there are some good quotes about the need for Universities to become more open that might be useful for the white paper. I've highlighted a few sections.
Rob Phillips

How really relevant and practical are Open Educational Resources?: A case for a little ... - 1 views

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    Nice review with 2 interesting concepts: - distinguish between 'content' and 'process in Open Ed - distinguish between 'push' and 'pull' models Push models (e.g. MOOCs) provide open access to a structured course experience. Pull models enable academics to choose the OERs they want to use for their context. Summary: "In summary, OERs as they are currently being promoted (the current ''push' model), will be a passing fad with respect to mainstream university and college education, because the core assumptions on which initiatives such as edX are based are false. However, OERs in terms of resources freely available over the web will be a game-changer, but in a 'pull' rather than a 'push' model. The one exception to this will be in the area of continuing education for the masses, where there will be continuing demand for structured, prepackaged courses built around the edX model. In other words, we need a little more humility about the potential role of OERs. There are niche markets such as continuing education that can still be very large that can be served by initiatives such as edX and MOOCs. But the real value of OERs will be to shift instructors away from the creation and delivery of content to focusing on how best learning can be developed and facilitated for, in and by our students. This way we will avoid developing automatons and instead will be developing people who can think for themselves."
Jenni Parker

15 Inspiring Examples of Free Online Education - 0 views

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    Online College Tips - Online Colleges A great list of open educational sites for finding open educational resources
Jenni Parker

Are open educational resources the key to global economic growth? | Higher Education Ne... - 0 views

  • Though the concept is simple, the economic potential is tremendous and the advantages are two-fold: First, OERs can lower education costs substantially
  • OERs can also help universities reduce their marketing costs
  • Open resources can also help bolster a school's global reputation: 91% of visitors
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  • A recent study conducted by scholars associated with Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative demonstrated that students who use OERs can obtain the same or better learning outcomes in half the time compared with students using traditional methods.
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    Some arguments about  the economic benefits of OER for higher ed
Jenni Parker

Commonwealth Secretariat - 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Minister... - 0 views

  • 16. Ministers stressed that ICT was vital to increasing access at all levels, hence improving the efficiency of the education system, but that technology should be driven by educational needs. They noted that while there was a plethora of initiatives for the development of Open Education Resources (OER), such as scientific publications, eBooks and journals, there was a need to set up a common platform for OER materials for harmonisation and ease of access. They further highlighted the need for a common framework for all open universities of the Commonwealth, especially those in small states. Quality assurance mechanisms should be strengthened to make them more relevant to the needs of stakeholders.
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    Item 16 talks about OER
Jenni Parker

Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies | EDUCAUSE - 3 views

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    Chapter - Why Openess in Education?
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    I was just working out how to bookmark this book to this workgroup!
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    Great minds think alike?
Jenni Parker

Open Educational Resources: It's not the artifact, it's the process - 1 views

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    Mark McGuire's Blog.  slides and audio recording from a seminar that he presented at the "Open Educational Resources Seminar" at the University of Otago on 28 June 2012
Jenni Parker

Chapter 10: Trends in open education | Teaching in a Digital Age - 0 views

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    BC open textbooks
Jenni Parker

Next-Generation of Open Education Resources (OER) - 0 views

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    on User-Friendly, Approachable Platforms | Online Learning Insights
macake

MOOCs will mean the death of universities? Not likely - 2 views

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    I agree with most of this. Change doesn't need to be massive, just a shift in favour of short, high-quality 're-purposeable' objects, to stay at the forefront of the new wave.
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    Great article, thanks for sharing. I also agree with most of this. Having participated in a MOOC, I don't think this form of learning will takeover. I think there are a couple of very good quotes here that we should include in our white paper e.g., "A reputation for innovative teaching will be invaluable in the fight for domestic and international student dollars." and "Incentives at all our universities are based on research output, so academics have little incentive to embrace educational reform. The universities that succeed in transforming education will not be those that work on a top down approach. That cannot work. Rather, it is the universities that develop the incentives and motivation for "bottom up" academic-led reform who will be tomorrow's leaders in tertiary education."
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