ONL 191 Topic 2 (Open Learning - Sharing and Openness) SCENARIO
I’m interested in opening up some of my courses and sharing the resources in a responsible way, but I don’t really know where to start. What options are there for offering courses that are open? How do I get support from my colleagues and how do I introduce the idea to my students? What are the opportunities and dangers of “going open”?
Openness
Fear of going public
1) [Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open Educational Practices in Higher Education]
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3096/4301
2) Opening up Education: A support framework for higher institutions (2016) Inamorato dos Santos et al.
3) ASCILITE's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Open Educational Practices (OEP) (https://ascilite.org/get-involved/sigs/open-educational-practice-sig/)
4) List of web-pages that include free to use resources:
Time consuming task
Constructive criticism
Negative aspects
Peer review
Organized workshops by institution
Positive aspects
Accessible to wider audiance
Actual institutional practices (in terms of offerings)
Resources (good-to-know)
Anne's experience:
MOOC free courses (on Coursera as a student)
Loved the courses, learned a lot, pedagogy was great and visual too
Looking at the archives of ONL course, it seems that the course has gone through little changes at least since ONL141. So it seems like once a course is set in a certain format that in general works, little has to be done the following years to keep the course running. new ideas might join but the basic core doesnt have to be re-designed every year
The haters will hate
Dazzelyn' s experience: ✅ ONL 191 first official MOOC (as participant). ✅ Institutionally, NUS is very supportive of innovators who would like to create blended modules and even EdX modules.
Can be free for teacher and student
Accessible at any time point
Niklas experience: A lot of work is needed in order to create a open course/MOOC. Important that the whole project group understand the pedagogical idea in the course. Infrastructure regarding Open Courses are often an big issue for many institutions (regardles if they host their own, use Coursera/EdX)
Outdated resources/material
fragmentation of the information (need to find different sources to have the whole understanding)
However there is a global demand for promoting OER and even UNESCO is providing guidelines for implementing University strategies (source: dos Santos et al 2016)
Lack of support from institution
Lack of support from institution
Electronic credentials not yet recognize by any institution
Recognition of online learning is growing
Not easy
Lack of recognition (for those who produce OER)
Fear of being miss-used
Often extra [unpaid] work if a teacher would like to open their courses (or at least this might be a fear)
Hard to set a Expire date for published material
Good for personal branding/reputation
Good for institution's brand/reputation /marketing.
Tips
Dont fear IT tools: No need to show the highest digital literacy - Use tools in a way that is not distracting and support pedagogy and the material you want to teach
Talk to colleagues
Constant legacy-free rethink: starting with the question: “If i did this the first time today, how would i do it then?”
Be ready, set time for it
Engage all institutional support that are available. Provide feedback/voice out what other support are needed to help advocate for open-learning further.
Participative
Collaboration
Seminars
easy
Youtube lectures
Collaborate - do not do it alone
Start simple/small & learn/gain confidence for the next time
Have your lecture recorded and post in any platform.
Join a course already organized and learn from it
Assignments and guidelines
Fear of misusing material (copyright)
How to access free images:
Fazilats' experience: open courses and MOOCS have received increased attention the last decade, and are "popular". Yet, my experience is that they have not reached their full potential. Those courses I have seen did not involve much interaction, and reminded of lectures in which one person presents something without any further interaction. The ONL191 course on the other hand has shown great ways of dealing with this issue and encourages active participation and collaborative learning. However, my university now provides sufficient technical support for creating videos and other teaching and learning material for providing online courses. Typically educators and technicians work together to prepare and hold the course. This I believe is great institutional support.
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