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Flexible Course Delivery and the Potential of Open and Distance Education
Keynote AddressCommittee of Vice Chancellors and Directors (CVCD) Conference 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka
ByIshan Abeywardena, Ph.D.Advisor (Designate): Open Educational Resources (OER)The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Burnaby, Canada
13th November 2015
The concept of Distance Education (DE) can be defined as:
(i) one-way traffic in the form of pre-produced course materials sent from the supporting organization and involving students in interaction with texts; and
(ii) two-way traffic which is real communication between students and the supporting organization (Holmberg , 2005 )
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DE Today…
“ Technology is responsible for distorting the concept of distance between learner and instructor, and enabling learners to access education at any time and from any place”.
Beldarrain (2006, p.139)
Beldarrain, Y. (2006). Distance education trends: Integrating new technologies to foster student interaction and collaboration. Distance education, 27(2), 139-153.
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Digital Natives
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghanaian_using_a_tablet.jpg
Redefining the “D” in DE to “Digital”
Source: Computer Literacy Statistics - 2014, Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka; http://www.statistics.gov.lk/ComputerLiterarcy/BuletinComputerLiteracy.pdf
Digital Distance in Sri Lanka
Source: http://nanasala.org/ and http://www.nodes.lk/
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Source: http://www.eit.edu.au/image/onlinebook/Sage-on-the-Stage-11.jpg
Flipping the Classroom: Conventional to DE
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course#/media/File:MOOC_poster_mathplourde.jpg
Source: https://www.edx.org/sites/default/files/upload/intro-four-example-videos960.jpg
The Flexibility of MOOC
Source: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/mooc-150607151930-lva1-app6892/95/massive-open-online-courses-moocs-6-638.jpg?cb=1434031431
Asian MOOC Initiatives
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“teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions”
(UNESCO Paris OER Declaration, 2012)
OER
UNESCO. (2012, June 22). 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION. Retrieved June 13, 2013, from unesco.org: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/WPFD2009/English_Declaration.html
OER: Just another means of getting there…Source: http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/Feature%20Story/sar/srilanka/lk-edu-computers-
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four ‘R’s model:
Reuse
Redistribute
Revise
Remix
RetainHilton, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., & Johnson, A. (2010). The four R‘s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for open educational resources. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(1), 37-44.
O in O
ER
Openness
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/mackiwg/oeru-overview-2014
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/mackiwg/oeru-overview-2014
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/mackiwg/oeru-overview-2014
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/mackiwg/oeru-overview-2014
Can we do it?
Thank you!
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