Openedu

Open education and the liberal arts institution

National Institute for Technology in Liberal

Education-

January 2013

Plan of attack

1.Open education intro

2.Our research: survey

3.“ “ : selected cases4.Future directions

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Communities of practice

Research

Joint projects

Outreach

Network platform: events f2f/online

Partnerships Translation

1. Definitions“Open education is about sharing, reducing barriers and increasing access in education. It includes free and open access to platforms, tools and resources in education (such as learning materials, course materials, videos of lectures, assessment tools, research, study groups, textbooks, etc.)…”

“…Open education seeks to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.”

“About Open Education,” Open Education Week, February 2012,

http://www.openeducationweek.org/about-open-education

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http://librivox.org/moon-and-sixpence-by-w-somerset-maugham/

Open… educational resources (OER)

Courseware (OCW) Courses (MOOC) teaching

Open… learning tools (Moodle) Assessment (badges) access scholarly communication

learners universities

Why open? Cost and flexibility Improving content, learning

Outreach and visibility

Participate in innovation

Open and liberal education

Early adopter phase Ex: OA - Trinity, Oberlin,

Bucknell, Hope Why not mainstream?›Awareness›Less cost pressure›Wrong scale

2. The survey

“We are in baby steps.” NITLE Network queried 32 campus leaders›Chief Information Officers›Academic computing leaders›Library directors› IT managers

Why is your institution not pursuing open education at this time? My institution lacks awareness

of open education My institution does not see open

education as being in its strategic interest

Open education is best pursued at the faculty level, not the institution-level

3. Cases

Cyropaedia, Southwestern

Analytical Chemistry

Depauw

Microbewiki, Kenyon

4. The future of open education

Usage Awareness Quality

concerns Inertia Specific OER Etextbooks

Pain points

Production IP concerns Sustainability Faculty time

Recommendations

Strategic rationale Multiple campus populations

Upper-level institutional support

Awareness

Recommendations

Rewards and incentives Pilots Experiment pedagogically

Explore sustainability models

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