Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Project Greenfield A New Way of Thinking about OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources for MIT Extending the OCW Experience in the OCW Sandbox 1 Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]M.S. Vijay Kumar, Jeffrey Merriman, Peter Wilkins MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology Citation: Muramatsu, B., Kumar, M.S., Merriman, J., Wilkins, P. (2010). Project Greenfield: A New Way of Thinking about OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources for MIT. Presented at OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2010: Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5, 2010.
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“Wouldn’t it be great if MIT OpenCourseWare…” How many times have you heard this phrase? What if there were a sandbox in which the community could test and experiment with the tools and services that might prove useful to OCW visitors, and more generally OER content providers? Find out what the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT is doing to setup and support this environment to extend the OCW experience. Presented by Brandon Muramatsu at OCWC Global 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5, 2010.
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Project Greenfield
A New Way of Thinking aboutOpenCourseWare and
Open Educational Resources for MIT
Extending the OCW Experience in the OCW Sandbox
Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]. Vijay Kumar, Jeffrey Merriman, Peter Wilkins
MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Citation: Muramatsu, B., Kumar, M.S., Merriman, J., Wilkins, P. (2010). Project Greenfield: A New Way of Thinking about OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources for MIT. Presented at OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2010: Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5, 2010.
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The MIT Office for Educational Innovation and Technology
Dean for Undergraduate Education
Support innovation cycle
Novel uses of technologyto support teaching andlearning
Academic computing without the LMS/VLE
Experiment
Incubate
Transition
Service
We’re at MIT, but we’re not MIT OCW
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Wouldn’t it be great ifMIT OCW…?
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What might be possiblewith MIT OCW?
Download a course?✔ MIT OCW provides downloads
Get an RSS feed of new courses?✔ MIT OCW supplies quite a few RSS feeds
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What might be possiblewith MIT OCW? (cont.)
Ask a question? Participate in a discussion?Remember, MIT OCW does not provide access to professors
~ Experimented with community-based discussions on 10 courses with OpenLearningSupport in 2004-2006
~ Currently Videolectures.net and Academic Earth support discussions/feedback for videos
All require(d) going to an external site
Reference: Henson, S. (May 2007). A comparative analysis of learning resources shared in aDiscussion board versus an RSS aggregator with a social component. Paper in American
Educational Researcher’s Association Annual Meeting 2007 Conference Proceedings, Chicago, IL.
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What do YOU wish were possible with MIT OCW?
Blue Sky!
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What do YOU wish were possible with MIT OCW?
Digg-rank up or down courses (popularity), thumbs up, thumbs down
Comment on the content that’s therePoint out errors/improve the content
Translate content
Show localizations, same content, different culture (examples)
Exemplar recognition
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What do YOU wish were possible with MIT OCW? (cont.)
Tag content
RSS notification for new versions of the same course
Sit an exam, get credits
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MIT OCW is a Publication
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.OCW is not an MIT education.OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.Materials may not reflect entire content of the
course.Reference: MIT OCW. (2010). About OCW. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from
MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm
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CAPRETT(Cut and Paste Reuse Tracking Tool)
Cut and paste from a lecture? ✔ Simple cut and paste supported from HTML pages
~ Simple cut and paste possible from PDF/Word/etc.
? What about tynt.com-style support? When the user highlights text, an automatic linkback to exact
location in original page is created
? Extend tynt.com to add attribution information automatically and pasted with text
Reference: Muramatsu, B. (2009, August 27). Plagiarism is Good™ Revisited. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from Brandon Muramatsu’s Website: http://www.mura.org/2009/08/plagiarism-is-good-revisited/