Why spend time on MOOCs and OER?

Ebba Ossiannilsson, PhDLund University, Sweden

15th April 2014Webinar

Ebba Ossiannilsson, PhD Lund University

Open Educational Cultures- open arenas

Open AccessOpen LicensesOpen SoftwareMOOCsOER/OEP/OEC

MOOC

© Gabi Witthaus, Institute of Learning Innovation, University of Leicester, 2014 (slides) and Derek Keats (image) CC-BY

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MobilityCollaborationOpennessPersonalizationQuality

21 century skills

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Digital literacy across the curricula (Hauge & Payton 2010 p 19

" We must engage in a fundamental transformation of our education and training systemsAnd we need to fully exploit the potential that open and flexible education offers" (Commissionaire Vassilio EADTU 120929)

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EC Recommendations for Higher Education Opening up Education

review their organisational strategiesexploit the potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)stimulate innovative learning practices such as blended learningequip teachers with high digital competences equip learners with digital skillsthink about how to validate and recognise learner’s achievements in online educationmake high quality Open Education Resources (OER) visible and accessibleOssiannilsson_Boldic2014

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© Gabi Witthaus, Institute of Learning Innovation, University of Leicester, 2014 (slides) and Thomas Sly (image) CC-BY

Entering the online jungle

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The community is the curricula

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Learning

• learning is more critical than knowing

• “the network is the learning”

• know-how supplemented by

“know-where” (& know-who)

Why network?

George Siemens“connectivism”© Stephen Downes

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Learning design

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The Networked Teacher – my PLN

meWork Friends

Twitter(# and

people)Conferences/PD meetings

Blogs

Social mediaWikis

Twitter chats

Websites & media

A quick tour through some acronyms

• RBL - resource based learning• RLO – reusable learning object• OER – open educational resource• OEP – open educational practice• OEC – open edcuational culture• OEI – open education idea* • MOOC- massive open online courses (c and x,and a lot in between)

• TLA – three letter acronymn

* Source: http://www.idea-space.eu/open-educational-ideas-a-new-approach-for-open-education/ - 31 Jan 2014

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50 shades of openness

©

Copyright Public domainCreative Commons

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50 shades…

Validation, ExaminationTutoring, feedbackGuidlinesCoursesMOOCs Self study

Formal and/vs Informal learning

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BIS RESEARCH PAPER NUMBER 130 The Maturing of the MOOC

Why the interest in resource reuse?

Emphasis on mass HE, measuringquality in learning and teaching.

Reuse helps to pay for online learning Cost reduction by sharing at scale.

Knowledge transfer to developingworld. Changing teaching practices.Technological changes with online and digital resources easy to repurpose/reuse.

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2013 Chris Pegler

Where are we now?

• We’ve solved most of the technical problems• We now have is the human issues*

* Hm. Would money or recognition or reward (technical) or greater clarity about copyright (technical) solve these problems?

2013 Chris Pegler

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1 SverdNytt 3, 2012 http://nytt.sverd.se/2 ScieCom, http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5678/49293 Final report4 Presentations, OER13, April 2013, Nottingham, NGL14, Dalarna University, Falun, March 2014HU Journal Higher Education (Swedish)

Establish Networks and CoPTo be continued….

Whats up in Sweden?

Framtidens lärandeNya vägarRegeringsutredningTillväxtananlysSOU 2014:13 En digital agenda i människans tjänst – en ljusnande framtid kan bli vår Utbildningsvetenskapligt råd

MOOCs KI, LU, UU Several HEIs – strategies, policy, action plans

Position paper, NordicOER #nordicoer

Goals and Objectives

Barriers

Actions

Recommendations

• Policy

• Institutions

• Individuals

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Nordic OER #nordicoer

Network and projectRecommendations in 7 languagesPosition paperCooperation with other projects

www.noordicoer.org

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BIC 2013 The Maturing of the MOOC

MOOC Like reading a newspaper- go for the headings and the bold text/Downes

S Downes – Like reading a newspaper (21 March 2014)

MOOC dimensions

OpennessScaleMultimediaCommunicationCollaborationLearning pathway

Ref: MOOCs as disruptive technologies: strategies for enhancing the learner experience and quality of MOOCs, Conole G 2013

Quality assuranceReflectionCertificationFormal learningAutonomyDiversity

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Quality – in the eye of the beholder?

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Quality framework for MOOCs in Europe• Openness to learners• Digital openness• Learner-centred approach• Independent learning• Media-supported interaction• Recognition options• Quality focus• Spectrum of diversity

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Massive target groupMixing groupsLearning across contextsSupport self-organizationDeclare whats in itPeer to peer pedagogyMOOCs support choice based learning

MOOC.EFQUEL.ORG

MOOC Quality Project:

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Fit for success My career path

Universities play a key role:→ As professional training

providers→ As educational content

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Universities play a key role:→ As educational content

providers→ For certification and

accreditation

A global open research arena enables anybody to engage in research

Universities play a key role: → as research hubs

Guided discovery Self-guided discovery

Guided journey Self-guided journey

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What do we need to think about today?

• New business models

• New funding schemes

• Certification, recognition and credit transfer across institutions, across borders

• New interfaces between education and research

• Experimentation!

So why spend time on MOOCs and OER

Individual levelInstitutional levelNational level Global level

PersonalizationSustainbilityCollaborate to competeLife long learningGet the best of the best…

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International workshop on policy for OER and less used languages

28 April, Oslo

OER and challenges and opportunities for less used languages in a global, European, Nordic and national

perspective.

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