3. PRINCIPLES
• Low cost, high value
• Sustainable: design once, deliver many
times
• Forward-looking:
alignment, assessment for
learning, rapid feedback
• Aligned with social enterprise and
entrepreneurship
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4. ONLINE PRESENCE
Presence on NILE is not an add-on to the
course. It is the course.
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(Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2001)
5. TO BE CLEAR…
The resource is not the course.
PDFs and PPTs won’t teach themselves.
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6. NILE DESIGN TARGETS
Level Focus Key features
Foundation Delivery Absolute minimum expected
Course information, handbook and guides
Learning materials
Intermediate
Essential in all
blended courses
Participation In addition to ‘Delivery’:
Online participation designed into the course.
Tasks provide meaningful formative scaffold.
Online participation encouraged and moderated, but not essential to
achieve learning outcomes.
Advanced
Essential in all online
courses
Collaboration In addition to ‘Delivery’:
Regular learner input designed into course & essential throughout.
Online tasks provide meaningful scaffold to formative and
summative assessment.
Collaborative knowledge construction central to a productive
learning environment.
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7. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
(OERS)
Teaching, learning and research materials in
any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in
the public domain or have been released under
an open license that permits no-cost
access, use, adaptation and redistribution by
others with no or limited restrictions
(UNESCO, 2012)
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15. DesignDelivery
As is Repurposed
OER use
Curriculum
Armellini & Nie (2013) Open educational practices for
curriculum enhancement. Open Learning 28(1) 7-20.
20. CONTRIBUTING OUR OWN
OERS
'All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.'
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
Image source: Wikipedia
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21. FROM VLES AND OER
TO MOOCS
Massive Open Online Courses
and free
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30. 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
• Knowledge and learning as open, mobile, connected and
scalable
• New forms of communication and collaboration for
knowledge construction
• Harnessing the global network
• Flexibility as the norm
32. OERS…
• Content is not king
• We can’t afford to ignore OERs:
• As users - OERs to enhance your courses
• As contributors: don’t agonise over the family
silver
• What will put Northampton on the OER
map?
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Professor Alejandro Armellini
Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
University of Northampton
Ale.Armellini@northampton.ac.uk
11 June 2013
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