This document discusses open education and contains the following key points: 1. It outlines the goals of the session which is to continue discussing technology's impact on open education and have a guest speaker, Mike Smith, discuss policy issues. 2. It provides news about the upcoming OCWC Global 2011 conference where several guest speakers will be in attendance, including David Wiley and Steve Carson. 3. It introduces the guest speaker, Mike Smith, the former Director of International Affairs and Senior Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of Education.

1. Open Education: Practice and PotentialM.S. Vijay KumarBrandon Muramatsu EDUC E-107Spring 2011 1 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.

2. Goals for this Session News: OCWC Global 2011 Midterm Good dialogue with those of you that have responded to our comments Policy Issues and Open Education Guest Speaker: Mike Smith Continuing our discussion of technology and how it can impact Open Education 2

3. News Related to Open Education http://conferences.ocwconsortium.org/ Many of our guest speakers will be in Cambridge: David Wiley, Steve Carson, Joel Thierstein, Gary Lopez, Cathy Casserly, Mike Smith, Philipp Schmidt Tom Caswell (representing Cable Green’s organization) $100 Student Registrations 3

4. Marshall “Mike” Smith Former Director of International Affairs and Senior Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of Education Former Director of Education,William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 4 Credit: U.S. Department of Education

5. Assignment 8 5

6. Technology and Open Education Were any of the technologies posted designed for education? Did any of the technologies surprise you? 6

7. Enablers / Challenges Change in Roles Multiple inputs (Elluminate chat and lecture) Learning from others, everyone is a teacher Back channel discussions Elluminate chat, Twitter, others Transparency Blog posts, commentary Feedback loops and analytics Blog comments, discussion threads YouTube “views”, discussion analysis (posts, reply depth) 7

8. Enablers / Challenges Class participation / self-learning Motivation, requirements? Ratings for “Like” Star ratings on Slideshare, Likes on Facebook 8

9. Demo: Linking Contentand The Curriculum A vision in the context of a nascent university in India 9

10. Next Week Assignment 9, Due April 4 200 word description of your project, 2 minute oral presentation during the last hour of the April 7 class See the Assignments page for more details Guest Speakers on International Issues in Open Education Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation, JISC AshaKanwar, Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning 10