Socially Mediated

A Practical Guide: Going Online in Teaching and Learning

Gino FransmanNelson Mandela Metropolitan University

2016

2Aims

1. Introduction: What’s this Opening Up, you ask?2. All a-Twitter

Get the lingo of y/our world going in the class - GlossaryPractical

3. YouTubeAcademic Plagiarism – deal with it now.An educator’s experience of using YouTube in T&L

4. Open Educational Resources (OER)

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NMMU Values

• Well rounded, capable of success anywhere in the world

• Committed to: • Social Justice• Equality• Civic Consciousness• Adaptable

• Technology savvy• Supportive of Green Initiatives

NMMU student graduates will

be

Vision 2020

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5Introduction

• Opening upThoughtsDeedsPractice

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Open

Share

Re-use

Revise

RemixRedistribute

No Permission

Retain

What is OPEN?

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Get involved: enter the #openeducationweek competition looking for some global pictures

representing Open Education

8Twitter

Know what those social media types are talking about?

Twitter has an online glossary of terms for those wanting to know more about hashtags, tweets, retweets etc.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-glossary#

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hashtag (n.)A hashtag is any word or phrase immediately preceded by the # symbol. When you click on a hashtag, you'll see other Tweets containing the same keyword or topic.

Phishing (v.)

Do you know what this is?

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phishingTricking a user to give up their username and password. This can happen by sending the user to fake sign-in page, a page promising to get you more followers, or just simply asking for the username and password via a DM or email.

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Tweet (n.), Tweetable (adj.)

A Tweet may contain photos, videos, links and up to 140 characters of text.

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Search for a few keywords in your discipline

Explore using twitter in more detail on your own with this handy guide, containing several education related links to add and follow

http://www.edudemic.com/twitter-101-a-7-step-guide-for-teachers-newbies-and-everyone/

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See answers to your questions, some good, some bad…www.youtube.com

Try seeing what’s out there for your class or students?Emphasis is on developing the ability to distinguish

‘good’ resources out there from lower quality and/or questionable material.

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Have you encountered academic plagiarism yet? Ever been accused of it?How do (or will) you address plagiarism with students?

Click here:http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-punishable-perils-of-plagiarism-melissa-huseman-d-annunzio#watch

You can create a new lesson for students using this material!* You can also try requesting a session on Academic Referencing from myself in your classroom. Schedule permitting, of course.

15An educator’s experience with

According to Rob Weir (2012)https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/03/21/essay-how-use-youtube-teaching-tool

Suggested Sources: (This is a very, very small sample.)

1. YouTube: Just type what you’re looking to find. If that doesn’t work, try permutations

2. TED: Some of the most incredible talks and demonstrations imaginable in the fields of technology, entertainment, design, global concerns, and science are available here.

If the answer is 8, there are many, many ways to get there!

Fully customisable content in some cases

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3. Academic Earth: It offers amazing online videos in many disciplines. The downside is that many of them are long. You should preview them and use segments.

4. Make Use Of has a list of six sites with links to sample classes.

5. So too does Online College Courses…”

An educator’s experience with

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

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What are Open Educational Resources

(OER)?“... an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a

license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation,

without first requesting permission from the copyright holder."

A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER). (2011) Prepared by Neil Butcher for the Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO. Edited by Asha Kanwar (COL) and Stamenka Uvalic´-Trumbic´ (UNESCO).

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What are some types of OER?

Stand-alone T&L objects

including but not limited to:Lecture handoutsClass NotesRevision/ Exam Prep Facilitation MaterialsTest ScopesTutorial Guides – full term/semester, or simply per class/

session

20WHAT ELSE CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU

HAVE ALREADY MADE AS POTENTIAL OER ?

Your own support materials

Pictures of your white-board? Do you just write and erase?

Recordings (audio and/or visual – consider available TECH) of your lectures or other teaching engagements, Cellphones?

Test or exam rubrics?

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Environmental Science in the 21st Centuryhttp://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/contents.html

Using the Web – Some help http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/usingthewebE.html

‘growth point at NMMU’ according to Prof Zinn (02 July 2015)

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Full Course OER Materials aka OpenCourseWare

Global Development Resource Center's Virtual Library Collection of online resources for Environmental Studies.

MIT Open Courseware - Urban Studies and Planning MIT's extensive list of open Urban Studies courses includes Environmental Justice, Policy and Planning materials. Lectures, quizzes, exams, problem sets and in some cases entire e-textbooks are available for use in the classroom or as supporting materials.

MIT Open Courseware - Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences MIT also offers a wide variety of open courses on earth and environmental sciences. Course component are available for reuse in the classroom or by students to review concepts.

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Finding OER:

Your click takes you forward.

• www.oeconsortium.org• http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/• http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered• www.oercommons.org

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P2PU

The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.

OER Africa: proudly African (look at)

http://www.oerafrica.org/resource/guidelines-teaching-numeracy-foundation-phase

Foundation phase education resources, Grades 1,2 & 3.Share with local schools, teachers in primary school education.

Exploring OER in education:

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Some dates to diarise

• Some workshops on offer for you to request from me (limited capacity)

• Introduction to Open Educational Resources• Back to Basics: Writing for Post-grads• Assignment Writing for Students• CV Online: LinkedIn

• Academic Development Days• Missionvale Campus (22 or 24 Feb. tbc, Conference Centre, 8am – 2pm)• North Campus Auditorium (for 2nd Avenue & South Campus students and staff too) 25

Feb 2016

• Open Education Week• 7 – 11 March 2016

26Thank You

I hope we may follow up and collaborate via direct consultation ahead

Questions?

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Emailgino.fransman@nmmu.ac.zaginofransman@gmail.com

Twitter: @ginofransman

• Check out the First Year Success Programme here at NMMU

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