The document outlines the COLEARN open network project which brings together educators, students, and practitioners interested in collaborative open learning and open educational resources (OER). It discusses how the project uses social networks and knowledge media to enable co-learning, co-authorship, and cooperative creation of OER through interactive and creative collaboration. Over successive projects from 2006-2015, participation in co-authoring activities increased from 50 users to over 3500 members.

1. Anual Conference 2014
RIDING GIANTS
Co-authorship and Colearning
through OER & social networks
Dr. Ale Okada (OU Kmi)
ale.okada@open.ac.uk
Dr. Giselle Ferreira (UNESA)
gmdsferreira@gmail.com

2. 1. Introduction:
• Open Education
• Knowledge Media
• Colearning
2. The COLEARN open network
 Projects
 Co-authorships
3. OER & Social Networks
• coLearners coauthors:
interactive, creative and partners

3. The Open University's mission is
to be open to
people, places, methods and ideas

4. The processes of generating, understanding and sharing
knowledge using several different media and understanding
how the use of different media shape these processes
4
Knowledge
Media

5. OPEN EDUCATION
unlocking knowledge for all
8.7 million of viewers 204.000 posters
309.530 visitors
614 students

6. How can knowledge be unlocked ?

7. How could learners create
knowledge collaboratively?

8. COLEARNING
Collaborative Open Learning

9. COLEARNING
Collective
Knowledge
Co-construction
CoLearners
CoInvestigators

10. COLEARNING
Educators:
coLearners
knowledge facilitators,
colearning managers,
competence mentors,
teachers-researchers
Students:
coLearners,
co-authors,
peer reviewers,
co-entrepreneurs,
scientific citizens

11. COLEARNING
Production:
collaborative planning,
collective creation,
open publishing,
wide dissemination,
derived work
Content:
Diverse formats,
editable,
reusable,
high granularity,
open license

12. COLEARNING
Interfaces:
social media,
micro blogs,
Wikis, webinars,
collaborative tools
Platforms:
social networks,
PLE,
learning analytics,
open badges,

13. COLEARNING
Coauthorship:
recreation,
co-evaluation,
peer-review,
derived work
coLearning:
shared comments,
collective feedback,
co-inquiry,
continuous improvements

14. Open research network

15. Open research network that brings together
educators, students and practitioners from
across the world interested in :
1. collaborative open learning
2. methodologies to create OER
3. technologies applied to open education

16. Projects OpenLearn
(2006-2009)
OpenScout
(20010-2012)
weSPOT
(2013-2015).
Environment MOODLE ELGG, Social Media ELGG, widgets, analytics,
sensor data collection,
open badges
Colearn
Participants
2006 – 50 users
2013 – 3500 members
2010 – 200 members
2011 – 113 coauthors
2013 - 9,526 visitors
2013 – more than 50 from
the 21st century education
network
Colearn
Coauthorship
Period of 3 years
30 papers,
90 maps
70 webconferences
15 OER – units
10 Journal paper
Period of 18 months
48 tools details/
84 images
20 videos;
100 maps;
20 chapters;
1 e-book edited
12 presentations
Period of 6 Months
14 inquiry projects,
80 skills mapped,
150 literature papers
reviewed,
6 papers,
10 events,
4 videos,
1book coauthored

17. provide UKOU OER as well as a
LabSpace platform and tools
for any users to create OER.

18. My interests focus on the uses of technologies in school for active learning.
My research in CoLearn is to analyse how OpenLearn tools can suport students as
knowledge builders in their learning communities.
This example shows a FM webconference: Tools, Models and Learning Styles
presented by Lecturers from Minho PT, UNED Spain and OU-UK
for teachers and students from a High School in Portugal. Moreira
Conference
3 Lecturers
from Spain
UK and
Portugal
Teachers
and
Students
from a
High school
in Portugal
Students questions and comments

19. My students created maps for a brainstorm of questions
(queststorm) and organising images and concepts in groups.
Methodology
Compendiu
m
This is a FM conference for CoLearn participants where
I presented my framework: Inquiry Learning and Web Map Quest
Tractenberg

20. In Colearn Community we share all
FM webconferences, Slideshare presentations,
Compendium Maps and Discussion foruns
FM conference open for everyone
Moreira
Conference slides
shared previously
Compendium map of the
conference and references
Forum for further discussion
Teachers & students can access materials,
and use tools to create and share knowledge.

23. OER TOOLS

24. Autor: Colearn
Fonte: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/recursos-educacionais-abertos
Objetivos: Visualizar linha do tempo dos principais momentos do “Open Content”
Descrição: Linha do tempo desenvolvida no TimeToast
Licença: CC BY SA
EXAMPLE
OpenScout – Tool-Library –(OER BOOK)
OER TOOLS

25. EXAMPLE
OpenScout – Tool-Library –(OER BOOK)

26. interactive
Feedback
collaboration
Collective construction
Social Network
dissemination
Autor: Colearn
Fonte: http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/recursos-educacionais-abertos
Objetivos: Visualizar linha do tempo dos principais momentos do “Open Content”
Descrição: Linha do tempo desenvolvida no TimeToast
Licença: CC BY SA

28. OERBOOK: http://oer.kmi.open.ac.uk/

29. oer.kmi.open.ac.uk

31. weSPOT
• Question/hypothesis
• Operationalisation
• Data collection
• Data Analysis
• Interpretation/discussion
• Communication

32. Encuentro.Educared
Mendeley
Twitter
weSPOT
FaceBook

33. “c” Model
Key competences for
colearning and co-inquiry in
the digital age

35. Conclusions ?

36. OpenLearn
(2006-2009)
weSPOT
(2013-2015).
OpenScout
(20010-2012)
• Interactivity, Co-creation, colearning, co-inquiry
• Co-authorship (Educators, Students, Researchers)
• Knowledge Media for co-construction, sharing, recreation
• coLearners and coEducators: interactive, creative and partners

37. Questions ?
Book: http://oer.kmi.open.ac.uk/
COLEARN : http://colearn.open.ac.uk
weSPOT: http://inquiry.wespot.net/
E-mail: colearn @ gmail.com Site: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/ale