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E107 Open Education Practice and Potential: Session 1
Session 1 for Education E-107, Open Education Practice and Potential, Spring 2011 (Harvard University Extension) taught by M.S. Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu.
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EDUC E-107 Spring 2011
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Unless otherwise specified, Copyright 2011, Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu. Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/). Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2011). Open Education” Practice and Potential.
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Open education builds upon the best traditions of educational innovation and the open source movement. It is a field that foresees remarkable transformations in institutions and teaching and learning at all levels. It examines the various dimensions of open education from traditional to contemporary. It explores the micro impacts impacts at the course, curriculum, and program levels as well as the macro impacts, those at the university and national educational policy levels. Finally, the course examines the remarkable transformative potential of open education on individuals and institutions.
“Online learning enthusiasts could get a windfall of federal money under a $2-billion grant program that the Obama Administration described on Thursday. But how big the windfall will be—if it comes at all—remains unclear.
One thing is for sure: The four-year program, designed to expand job training at community colleges, signals a major endorsement of the movement to freely share learning materials on the Internet. … And it demands open access to everything: “All online and technology-enabled courses must permit free public use and distribution, including the ability to re-use course modules, via an online repository for learning materials to be established by the federal government.”
Source: Parry, M. (2011, January 22). “$2-Billion Federal Program Could Be ‘Windfall’ for Open Online Learning.” Retrieved January 26, 2011 from The Chronicle of Higher Education website: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/2-billion-federal-program-could-be-windfall-for-open-online-learning/29167
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Newsweek “Washington’s Open Course Library is the largest state-funded effort in the nation to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Financed with $750,000 from the state of Washington and a matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the goal isn’t just to reduce student costs, says program architect Cable Green. It’s also to create engaging, interactive learning materials that will help improve course completion rates. By the time the project is completed in 2012, digitized textbook equivalents for some 81 high-enrollment classes will be available online for the more than 400,000 students enrolled in Washington’s network of community and technical colleges.”
Source: Hamilton, A. (2011, January 25). “Who Needs Textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.” Retrieved January 26, 2011 from Newsweek website: http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html
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Welcome Logistics ◦ Getting up and running with Elluminate ◦ Course expectations ◦ Getting to know each other and our interests
Understanding open education in a historical context
Understanding the macro significance of open education
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Is everyone logged into Elluminate? Hopefully everyone has a microphone and
has configured it… ◦ If you can’t login, or don’t have a microphone,
<Obligatory shuffling as everyone gets things to work>
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We’ve designed the course seminar-style ◦ We want to have engaging discussions with the
class ◦ We value your input on the class and the
directions we take, we’ve invited guest speakers but are flexible in the topics we cover
We want this to be an enjoyable experience ◦ Be professional, but keep it light
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Participation ◦ This course is based on a high degree of
participation, both from online and local students ◦ We appreciate it when you take the initiative to
lead discussions, pose questions, etc. ◦ Participate via Elluminate Student Elluminate monitor: Each session we’ll
have a student assigned to monitor the Elluminate chat and help moderate the discussion
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Class Sessions ◦ 2 hours in length ◦ Download and review slides Posted no later than 3pm Eastern on day of class
(except for the first week) ◦ Be ready to start at 5:30pm Eastern We’ll be logging in as early as 5pm Eastern ◦ Most classes will have… 30 minutes of wrap-up discussions and assignment from
the previous week, and introduction to the current week 60 minutes of presentation and questions and answers
with the speaker(s) 30 minutes of continued discussions and going over the
assignment due the following week
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Communications ◦ Please follow professional practices (netiquette) ◦ Email and the course website will be our primary
methods of communication ◦ We’ll try to respond to emails within 48 hours,
Sharing student work ◦ Discussion of sharing your work with your
classmates
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Offline discussion ◦ What are your thoughts? ◦ Forum? ◦ Blog post and comments?
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25% Class Participation 25% Assignments 20% Midterm Project 30% Final Project
◦ No final exam, but a final project presentation
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Introduce yourselves ◦ What’s your background? ◦ What do you hope to get from the class? Is there
something you are specifically interested in? ◦ What’s one thing interesting thing about yourself
to help us get to know you better?
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“I’d also like to know what people mean when they talk about the open education “movement.” Is it really an idea that is taking hold in many higher learning institutions and is here to stay? Or is it an idea that seems promising now, but will end up going nowhere? What institutions besides universities are offering open education? Who is their target audience?”
◦ Guest speakers from K-12, higher education and international perspectives