Dreams of Open Education Health and Nutrition Resources • a few cautious steps from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC Cyprien Lomas Director, Learning Centre Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Nov 01, 2014
Dreams of Open Education Health and Nutrition Resources
• a few cautious steps from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC
Cyprien LomasDirector, Learning CentreFaculty of Land and Food Systems
• 40K students,
• 11 schools & faculties
• have centralised / decentralised support
• central units pushing a simple solution (WebCT)
University of British Columbia
more about UBC...
• centralised - decentralised collaboration
• WebCT campus
• Office of Learning Technologies is the owner (and champion) of WebCT
• WebCT used for everything...
• "just webCT it"
• recently switched over to Vista
UBC is the birthplace of WebCT
• WebCT used for everything...
• "just webCT it"
• recently switched over to Vista
UBC is the birthplace of WebCT
• have WebCT for free...
• perceived as ‘up to date’ to be using WebCT
• anything else would take more effort - therefore not likely
The Faculty Mindset
http://blogs.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/
• course content (powerpoints / PDFs)
• discussion board
• gradebook
• quizzes
Faculty use the following WebCT tools
Faculty of Land & Food Systems
• running Sakai & Moodle servers (quietly)
• looking for people to test them out
Faculty of Land & Food Systems
• shotgun strategy to changing culture
• Creative Commons considerations
• intellectual property
Faculty of Land & Food Systems
• would talk about ‘open’ only with very close, trusted colleagues
• used with Permission from Bjorn Thomson
Food and Nutrition
• nutrition in Vietnam
• what are the challenges?
• approached to talk about potential
Came offering help
• instructors open to sharing resources.. but
• don’t have the vocabulary for what ‘open’ means
http://internationalnutrition.landfood.ubc.ca/
started partnership
• create site to share resources
• Vista wouldn’t work :)
• ended up going with Drupal
put together a framework
• snuck in the word ‘open’
• prof asked colleagues to contribute materials
building the site...
• course content was powerpoint & WebCT
• scrutinised ownership of material in lecture slides
Phased this into a multi year plan.
• suspect that the appropriate pace is closer to five years
Conclusions
• very willing faculty
• need to work on copyright awareness
• much more work needed-mostly cultural
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca
• holding the ‘open education’ conference in August 2009
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Next steps
• initiatives elsewhere in British Columbia
creative commons licensed flickr photo by tyfn
• thanks!
• Cyprien Lomas