Advancing Teaching and Learning through Open Content, Open Technology, Open Knowledge

A Collaborative Publication Project Advancing Teaching and Learning through Open Content Open Technology Open Knowledge Vijay Kumar Senior Associate Dean & Director Office of Educational Innovation & Technology , MIT Asia Society, New Delhi March 2008 `

Technology’s role in advancing Access and Quality

(National Knowledge Commission Recommendations)

Increasing capabilities of Open Educational Resources, Networks and digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to

Serve the knowledge needs of diverse communities

Amplify interaction among students and teachers

Introduce innovative and interactive educational experiences

Capacity Building for Education

Develop ecology for sustainable transformation of education in India.

Global Ambitions The elimination of “unfreedoms”, knowledge, education, health. - Amartya Sen Investment in human capital creates positive multiplier effects on family and next generation. Photo by TikkunGer via Flickr, cc license

Hands-On Experiences for an Increasingly Complex and Connected World (Earth at 89 GH;courtesy of J. Grahn, Chalmers U. & J. del Alamo )

Global Challenge: Too Many on the Outside, Looking In Photo by mathew ramsey via Flickr Photo by joepub via Flickr Photo by kawaface via Flickr Photo by Shavar via Flickr Photo by Felipe Pimentel via Flickr

MIT OpenCourseware 1800 courses

Site Highlights

Syllabus

Course Calendar

Lecture Notes

Exams

Problem/Solution Sets

Labs and Projects

Video Lectures

Making a Difference – Educator Use Professor Richard Hall LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, now teaching information systems, beginning microprocessors, and advanced computer-aided software engineering. OCW saved him “an enormous amount of time and stress.” “ I was delighted by the way the material is so coherently presented. It is truly inspiring to see this level of excellence .”

Making a Difference – Student Use Kunle Adejumo, Engineering student at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria “ Last semester, I had a course in metallurgical engineering. I didn’t have notes, so I went to OCW. I downloaded a course outline on this, and also some review questions, and these helped me gain a deeper understanding of the material.”

Accelerating Global Movement Higher Education

Journals, Books, Videos, Data, Games …

June 9, 2009 95 OCW Sites in 10 Languages                          

MIT Online Laboratories “ If you can’t come to the lab… the lab will come to you!”

iLabs at MIT Microelectronics device characterization (EECS, deployed 1998) Shake table (Civil Eng., deployed 2004) Dynamic signal analyzer (EECS, deployed 2004) Polymer crystallization (Chem. E., deployed 2003) Heat exchanger (Chem. E., deployed 2001)

The iLab Vision Service Broker Lab Server Client Campus network Internet University Databases

Order of magnitude more lab experiences

More lab time to users/researchers

More sophisticated labs available

Communities of scholars created around iLabs sharing educational & research content

iLabs in China

Zhejiang University

50 Net Labs today (Electronic, Power and Automation/Controls)

Strong interest in adopting iLabs

electromotor system elevator system triple-tank system

K-12

Interactive Bilingual Math Content This is an example of an interactive unit resource. A full English and Spanish Bilingual intervention unit in Geometry.

Interactive illustrations This is an example of a simple Flash based interactive “Learning Object.” This and many other learning objects were donated by the Australian Curriculum Corporation.

Interactive Math Content

A complete interactive Algebra course from The University of California and NROC.

Also:

Calculus I and II

Physics I and II

Environmental Science

Biology and more.

Community+Content

E-Science initiatives

Faulkes Telescope Project (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network)

Access to telescopes in Hawaii, Australia

Access to experts and collaborative projects

Hands On Universe (UC Berkeley)

Real data and applications for students

Student - Scientists interaction

OER Value Proposition

Open high quality digitized educational content, tools and communities

Available anytime, anywhere for free

Localizable and re-mixable

Allows for collective improvement and feedback

Why OER since HE/lecturers are doing just fine?

Alternate way to learn

Accelerate/deepen learning

Powerful engaging instruction

NOW is the TIME. Major changes in what we know about learning:

cognitive science

pedagogy

possibilities from brain research

are leading to new applications of technology in education

Accelerated Learning – OLI Challenges Conventional Wisdom

More bandwidth, increasing processing power, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid growth of mobile devices, decreasing costs… Increase capacity to access, collaborate, personalize, and create

Open Education Vision Elements

Boundariless Education

Beyond Geopolitical:

Research-Teaching; Teacher-Learner; Courses

Blended Learning

Intelligently combine the physical and the virtual

Integrate conventional pedagogy with net-learning to deliver quality

(relevant) educational opportunities

NKC Recommendations for OER

Launch a national e-conten t and curriculum initiative

Leverage global open educational resources movement

Support the production of quality content by a select set of Indian institutions.

Initiate development of online programmes for science and engineering laboratories – simulation s

Establish 50-100 laboratories (iLAB)

Undertake a large scale e-Curriculum development effort directed toward adaptation and adoption support .

Teacher Training / Faculty Development

Develop network-enabled delivery infrastructure

Access : High b/w national network: establish Indian Research and Education Network (IREN)

Delivery :

distributed repositories of educational resources

Open, standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture

Educational applications

. Faculty and Institutional Development Program

Promote distance and network based delivery techniques

Modernize current “correspondence course” programs for quality and access.

Develop domain competencies and teaching skills for quality education using quality faculty and high quality materials.

Integrate DE into University curricula and organizational structures

National Portal for Open Education

Enabling resources for faculty and resource development

Clearinghouse function and an interaction environment

Is Education Ready for Opening Up Education?

Inertial Frames

Scarcity vs. Abundance

Pundit-Pupil vs. Peer-Peer

Improving Scools Vs Improving Education

Outdated premises (Historical Evolution….)

Enabling Structures

Sense Making

Ordering the digital disorder

Teacher education

Facilitative infrastructure (Technical; Organizational; Financial)

Accountability and Accreditation

Quality Access and Opportunity

Open for Educational Opportunity Open Content Open Tools Open Knowledge

A Collaborative Publication Project

“ How can we advance teaching and learning by taking full advantage of open education?”

A hardcover book + free online distribution with Creative Commons

30 chapters by 38 prominent leaders and visionaries (Foreword by John Seely Brown)

Tory Iyoshi & Vijay Kumar (Co-Editors), Mike Smith, Cathy Casserly, Diana Laurillard, Andy Lane, Flora McMartin, David Wley, Richard Baraniuk, and many others for sharing their wisdom.

Opportunities and Challenges in Open Knowledge Sharing

Making tacit and local knowledge of effective teaching and learning visible and useful to others (both globally and locally) is not easy. (Iiyoshi, T. & Richardson, C.)

The commons must serve both as a repository and a seedbed. Open knowledge is not simply about making new pedagogical work available. It is about creating the conditions in which ever better ideas and models can come forward. (Huber, M. & Hutchings, P.)

Open sharing of knowledge of teaching and learning dramatically increases the role of inquirer in open education, and has enormous potential for changing the way faculty observe, think about, talk about, and transform their teaching and practices. (Gale, R.)

Iiyoshi 4/4

Tory Iyoshi & Vijay Kumar (Co-Editors), Mike Smith, Cathy Casserly, Diana Laurillard, Andy Lane, Flora McMartin, David Wley, Richard Baraniuk, and many others for sharing their wisdom.

Lessons learned and visions of the future from: OKI, IMS, CNI, Sakai, Moodle, ETUDES, iCampus, VUE, Mellon Foundation, OCW, Connexions, OLI, MERLOT, OpenLearn, SOFIA, Creative Commons, LAMS, Hewlett Foundation, CASTL, VKP, ISSOTL, Open University, Carnegie Foundation, and more

The Carnegie Foundation’s Book on Open Education (Winter 2008, MIT Press)

Opening Up Education: A Collaborative Publication Project

Identify the educational value proposition and implications of open education initiatives.

Help illuminate the micro and macro factors that would move these initiatives from their current stage to their “golden” state.

Explore, as a community of practice and reflection, how we can effectively share educational innovations, pedagogical experience, and knowledge to continuously improve the quality of education.

Opening Up Education: A Discussion

What is the educational value proposition?

What can we do as a community of practice and reflection to improve the quality of teaching and learning?

What are the sustainability considerations?

Is Higher Education ready for Opening Up Education?

iLabs: Extending Access to MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (MIT-NRL) If You Can’t Come to the Lab… the Lab Will Come to You!” (Earth at 89 GHz; courtesy of J. Grahn, Chalmers U. & J. del Alamo)

Transform Teaching and Learning: Open Game Based Environments Open Language Learning Initiative This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

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