Welcome to the Institute of Educational

Technology

www.open.ac.uk/iet

The Open University

• Largest University in the UK• 260,000 students• 7,000 tutors• 1,200 academic staff• Modern distance learning

Milton Keynes

25% of undergraduates aged under 25

Open Education

• “The Open University's mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas”

• 44% of undergraduates start without qualifications needed for a conventional university

• 12,000 students with disabilities• 20,000 students outside the UK• Free access to some learning materials online• 20 million downloads from iTunesU

Institute of Educational TechnologyIET ensures that the Open University is a world leader in research in educational technology.• Open approaches to research• Collaboration with world

class researchers internationally

• Linking research and practice

IET innovation• First fully online Open University course,

in 1998• Masters (MA) in Online and Distance

Education• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic

Practice• Pioneer development of learning objects • Journal of Interactive Media in Education

(JIME)– Open access journal, launched in 1996

IET research• Open Educational Resources

– Olnet, Bridge to Success

• iSpot• Out There In Here• Personal Inquiry• xDelia• Mobile learning

– MOTILL– MASELTOV

• Wolfson virtual science lab• Accessibility• Learning analytics• Learning design

Olnet: Open Learning Network

• Global research hub for open educational resources– Participatory learning– Design of OER– OER effectiveness– OER reuse

• Supported by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• Partnership with Carnegie Mellon

iSpot• Open citizen science• Wildlife observation• 16,000 registered

users• 85,000 observations• Re-discovered

‘extinct’ species• Identified invasive

species

Out There In Here

• Research project funded by EPSRC

• Live collaboration between students on field trip and in technology-enhanced room

• Ubi-learning: sharing and commenting on field data at a distance

Personal Inquiry

• Three year project• Open University /

University of Nottingham• Aim:

– To help children become scientists, by developing their skills of effective science investigation

xDelia

• 3 year European Union Project

• Bio-sensors and serious games to explore effects of emotional bias in financial decision making

Mobile learning

Relevance

Context

Continuity

PersonalisationLearning Design

Embedding

Community

Access

MOTILL• Funded by European

Commission• Analysis of mobile

technologies for lifelong learning

• Collecting evidence from research and practice

• Working with policy makers to raise awareness

• 11 best practice case studies

Key aim

MoULe To facilitate outdoor learning and collaboration

FÓN To support language learning for life

Federica To open up access to advanced knowledge

LOGOS To enable flexible access to courseware and objects from repositories

BathSMS To support students entering university

WoLF To link college and work-based learning

Bletchley Park Text

To personalize learning and link museum visit with school or home

Contsens To enable context-sensitive and location-based learning

Ensemble To support integration and active citizenship by using everyday tools

MobileDNA To support extracurricular or outreach activity and collaboration

Mobile Mood Diary

To support self-monitoring for long term health care

MASELTOV• Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion

and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services

• Funded by European Commission

Wolfson OpenScience Lab

• £1 million grant from Wolfson Foundation

• Online science lab• Remote access to

facilities and data

IET support to the University• Access for disabled students

– Expertise– Training– Evaluation of new technology

• Monitoring and evaluation of student learning experience– Database of student profiles and

progress– Surveys of student views on quality– Employability – Learner analytics

Data toolsData tables

Open comments Key Performance Indicators

Executive dashboardFocus AreasProgrammes

Module reviewsExternal audits/accreditation

Actions to improveSharing good practice

Collecting/measuringStudent RetentionStudent Feedback