This document summarizes a presentation about how digital content and open licensing can increase access to education. It discusses how copyright traditionally forbid sharing knowledge digitally but how Creative Commons licenses allow open sharing. When content is both digital and openly licensed through Creative Commons, it lowers costs, increases access, and improves quality by allowing free copying, distribution, and editing. Examples of open initiatives like open course libraries and MIT OpenCourseWare are given that aim to reduce costs and improve learning through open sharing of educational resources.
OCWC Global 2014: Designing for Diversity WorkshopUna Daly
Designing for Diversity: Creating Learning Experiences that Can Travel the Globe
This highly interactive workshop will introduce and explore pedagogical, technical and policy-based strategies to design, create and deliver OER/OCW learning experiences that can be used by the broadest range of learners globally. Workshop participants will be exposed to a variety of tools while collaboratively creating educational resources that are amenable to translation across cultures, languages, formats, technical platforms, learning approaches, modes of interaction and sensory modalities.
The one consistent and predictable quality of learners is that they are diverse. Among the many differences, they differ in their expectations, language, learning approaches, priorities, culture, background knowledge, age, abilities, motivations, literacy, habits, learning context, available technology and skills. If the goal is to achieve the largest impact and support learners in reaching their optimum then the most important design criteria is to design OCW/OER for diversity.
There are tools, toolkits and guidelines available to support the creation of engaging, flexible and translatable learning experiences. There are also international research and innovation communities that support the advancement of inclusive design. Participants will be familiarized with both so that strategies introduced during the workshop can be further developed and updated after the workshop.
The workshop will address the full OER/OCW delivery chain from learning experience design, authoring, delivery, review, revision and reuse. Participants will explore a variety of content types including video, simulations, interactive forms, animations, games, electronic textbooks, math/science notation, and collaborative applications. Authoring tools and toolkits explored will range from office applications and OER authoring portals to application development environments. A variety of browsers and delivery platforms on desktops and mobile devices will be covered.
The workshop is intended for educators, policy makers, administrators, OER/OCW developers and technical support staff interested in reaching the broadest range of learners globally.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Entrepreneurial Instruction or the Death...University of Waterloo
2012 has been described at "The Year of the MOOC." This presentation describes where MOOCs came from and why they have drawn hundreds of media stories and commentaries and controversies and, more importantly, millions of investor dollars and claims that MOOCs represent "the future of education." Larger issues are at play—beyond high enrollment numbers in online classes—issues related to technological promise and education, views of students as consumers and of teachers as service providers, the rising price of tuition and shrinking public support of education, all embedded in a culture of entitlement challenged by unprecedented economic austerity. MOOCs, therefore, are as interesting for what they teach us about where we are technologically as they are for what they tell us about the value of education in our democratic society.
OCWC Global 2014: Designing for Diversity WorkshopUna Daly
Designing for Diversity: Creating Learning Experiences that Can Travel the Globe
This highly interactive workshop will introduce and explore pedagogical, technical and policy-based strategies to design, create and deliver OER/OCW learning experiences that can be used by the broadest range of learners globally. Workshop participants will be exposed to a variety of tools while collaboratively creating educational resources that are amenable to translation across cultures, languages, formats, technical platforms, learning approaches, modes of interaction and sensory modalities.
The one consistent and predictable quality of learners is that they are diverse. Among the many differences, they differ in their expectations, language, learning approaches, priorities, culture, background knowledge, age, abilities, motivations, literacy, habits, learning context, available technology and skills. If the goal is to achieve the largest impact and support learners in reaching their optimum then the most important design criteria is to design OCW/OER for diversity.
There are tools, toolkits and guidelines available to support the creation of engaging, flexible and translatable learning experiences. There are also international research and innovation communities that support the advancement of inclusive design. Participants will be familiarized with both so that strategies introduced during the workshop can be further developed and updated after the workshop.
The workshop will address the full OER/OCW delivery chain from learning experience design, authoring, delivery, review, revision and reuse. Participants will explore a variety of content types including video, simulations, interactive forms, animations, games, electronic textbooks, math/science notation, and collaborative applications. Authoring tools and toolkits explored will range from office applications and OER authoring portals to application development environments. A variety of browsers and delivery platforms on desktops and mobile devices will be covered.
The workshop is intended for educators, policy makers, administrators, OER/OCW developers and technical support staff interested in reaching the broadest range of learners globally.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Entrepreneurial Instruction or the Death...University of Waterloo
2012 has been described at "The Year of the MOOC." This presentation describes where MOOCs came from and why they have drawn hundreds of media stories and commentaries and controversies and, more importantly, millions of investor dollars and claims that MOOCs represent "the future of education." Larger issues are at play—beyond high enrollment numbers in online classes—issues related to technological promise and education, views of students as consumers and of teachers as service providers, the rising price of tuition and shrinking public support of education, all embedded in a culture of entitlement challenged by unprecedented economic austerity. MOOCs, therefore, are as interesting for what they teach us about where we are technologically as they are for what they tell us about the value of education in our democratic society.
In this keynote for Anglia Ruskin University's Digifest 2016 I introduced the idea that a convergence of emerging digital contexts is creating a tipping point in understanding the hybrid learning space. This changes the relationships we have with our students and signals at last that digital lifewide learning shifts the balance from a teaching or content-centred paradigm to learning paradigm.
The implications are staff and students need to learning the literacies of this connectivist learning environment.
Presentation for The University of Sheffield Study School, Malta, January 2011.
Based partly on book by Davies and Merchant Web 2.0 for Schools and presented by Julia Davies.
Exploring digital literacies with our students means that we must we willing to reflect on our own digital practices and digital identity/identities. This presentation describes how an undergraduate module for IT students was designed and structured so that students could explore, develop and reflect on digital literacies, digital identity and related issues such as privacy and authenticity in networked publics.
Presentation of my preliminary research findings at SRHE Digital University Network seminar "Critical Perspectives on 'Openness' in Higher Education" - SRHE, London, 18-Nov-2016
The Future of Higher Ed? A Canary in the Coal Mine of Online LearningLori Packer
Presented at the 2012 HighEdWeb Conference in Milwaukee. Compares the experience of a traditional online degree with a new MOOC to make observations about future directions in online learning.
In this keynote for Anglia Ruskin University's Digifest 2016 I introduced the idea that a convergence of emerging digital contexts is creating a tipping point in understanding the hybrid learning space. This changes the relationships we have with our students and signals at last that digital lifewide learning shifts the balance from a teaching or content-centred paradigm to learning paradigm.
The implications are staff and students need to learning the literacies of this connectivist learning environment.
Presentation for The University of Sheffield Study School, Malta, January 2011.
Based partly on book by Davies and Merchant Web 2.0 for Schools and presented by Julia Davies.
Exploring digital literacies with our students means that we must we willing to reflect on our own digital practices and digital identity/identities. This presentation describes how an undergraduate module for IT students was designed and structured so that students could explore, develop and reflect on digital literacies, digital identity and related issues such as privacy and authenticity in networked publics.
Presentation of my preliminary research findings at SRHE Digital University Network seminar "Critical Perspectives on 'Openness' in Higher Education" - SRHE, London, 18-Nov-2016
The Future of Higher Ed? A Canary in the Coal Mine of Online LearningLori Packer
Presented at the 2012 HighEdWeb Conference in Milwaukee. Compares the experience of a traditional online degree with a new MOOC to make observations about future directions in online learning.
http://net.educause.edu/eliweb119 (recording here too - though I'm not sure if Educause requires you be an ELI member to see it - I think it will be open - hope so :)
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Cable Green, PhD, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable educational resources with everyone who wants to learn. The combined forces of digital content, the Internet and the effect of Moore's law push the cost of storing, replicating and distributing educational materials, once created, to near zero. Open licensing allows this content to be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed so others may localize, customize, translate, and (most important) collect and share open data on the effectiveness of the educational resources to continuously improve their quality. Cable will also discuss how open policies, once adopted, make sustainability a non-issue and ensure publicly funded educational resources are open educational resources.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
Qatar University Technology Enabled Learning and OpennessPaul_Stacey
Presentation given to Qatar University Technology Enabled Learning Implementation Committee and Curriculum Stakeholders (Programs Coordinators, Curriculum Committee Members, etc.). Doha October 29, 2014.
Open Assessments and OERs as Enablers in Competency-Based Education Tom Caswell
Call for Demos for the X International UOC UNESCO Chair Seminar
Title: Open Assessments and OERs as Enablers in Competency-Based Education
Tom Caswell, Helix Education
Brandon Muramatsu, MIT
It has been said that if you are measuring seat time rather than competency then you are measuring the wrong end of the student. Competency-based education has received a great deal of attention as a disruptive innovation that promises to raise quality and lower the cost of higher education. EDUCAUSE defines competency-based education (CBE) as awarding academic credit based on mastery of clearly defined competencies. In traditional higher education time is fixed and learning varies, which is why students receive grades at the end of a quarter or semester. Contrast this with competency-based education, where learning is fixed and time varies for each student. But if time varies then how do students know when they are done? Assessments play a central role in CBE because student performance must be measured against set standards.
While there are vast repositories of OERs, relatively few come with assessments to validate knowledge or check for understanding. In this demo we will show the Open Embedded Assessment (OEA) tool developed by MIT and Open Tapestry. Open Assessment complements existing OER efforts with tools to allow instructors to embed assessments in any OER, thereby providing students with a richer learning experience. Faculty can also create shared collections of assessment items with other faculty. We will demonstrate the current state of Open Embedded Assessments as both a formative and a summative tool. We will discuss the opportunities and challenges of a CBE implementation.
As more institutions explore competency-based education the need for an open infrastructure will grow. Helix Education is developing CBE courses using OERs to show what is possible within the Helix platform. Open Embeddable Assessments allow OERs to be leveraged into richer learning environments. Enhanced with Open Embeddable Assessments, these environments can provide valuable information back to students, faculty, and instructional designers. This data can expose gaps and deficiencies in the course -- areas that should be strengthened. And with open content the opportunity for data-driven improvement can be fully realized because the OERs can be legally modified. Together, Open Embeddable Assessments and OERs create a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement that can serve competency-based education well.
Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Oppor...Tom Caswell
This presentation will describe the Open Course Library, an ongoing project to redesign Washington's 81 highest enrolling college courses as open educational resources. During this multi-‐year effort, faculty members from the Washington state colleges are creating openly licensed courses using their existing learning management system. These courses will be shared within the 34-‐college system using a Creative Commons CC-‐BY license. I will discuss opportunities and challenges we have faces in this ongoing effort. Participants will recognize the role of faculty technology resource centers in many university Open Courseware operations, will understand the need for a simpler, more sustainable approach to creating open educational resources in Washington's community college system, will learn how faculty are using their existing LMS tool to create open educational resources in the Open Course Library project, and will consider the implications of increased use and remixing of open learning resources and the need for tools that make this easier for faculty.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
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The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...
Blackboard World 2012 Talk
1. Digital Content:
This Changes Everything
Tom Caswell
WA State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
tomcaswell.com | @tom4cam | tcaswell@sbctc.edu
Blackboard World 2012
July 12, 2012
Unless otherwise specified, this presentation by Tom Caswell is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License.
2. Relax.
Slides available at:
http://slideshare.net/tom4cam
3. CC BY-NC-ND Dreaming Girls Head By: Elfleda http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolinespics/1531
4. The Dream
That everyone have access to high
quality, affordable, accessible learning
opportunities.
It will require we share the educational resources
we produce and that we spend our limited public
resources wisely.
5. The Need
“Nearly one-third of the world’s
population (29.3%) is under
15. Today there are 158 million
people enrolled in tertiary
education1. Projections
suggest that that participation
will peak at 263 million2 in
2025. Accommodating the
additional 105 million students
would require more than four
major universities (30,000
students) to open every week
for the next fifteen years. By: COL
1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures
http://www.col.org/SiteCollectio
2 British Council and IDP Australia projections s/JohnDaniel_2008_3x5.jpg
48. Open as a continuum
• Sharing, access, materials, practice
Individual Standalone Course Materials “Courses” Courses +
Images Modules Open Textbooks Certification
Flickr MIT OCW Open Course Library MITx
OpenLearn Saylor.org Udacity / Coursera
TED-Ed
49. OCL Logo Credits: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Content
Snippets
Moving Forward
Courses
51. Building Reputation Through
Digital, Open Sharing
Brett Shelton
Assistant Professor
Instructional Technology
& Learning Sciences
Utah State University
Research Interest:
Instructional Games
54. Digital, Open Sharing
Discoverability
New Opportunities
How do you end up on the first page of a
Google search in your field?
What kinds of professional opportunities
could that yield?
56. State Board “Open” Policy
All digital software, educational
resources and knowledge produced
through competitive grants, offered
through and/or managed by the
SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC BY).
57. Open Course Library
A collection of openly licensed (CC BY) educational
materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses
Project Goals:
1. Lower textbook costs for students
2. Improve course completion rates
3. Provide new resources for faculty
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-
SA
Please visit: http://opencourselibrary.org
58. Affordability
SBCTC Example:
English Composition I
50,000+ enrollments / year
x $175 textbook =
$8.7+ Million every year
59. Open Course Library
The first 42 courses were
released October 31, 2011
Over 35,000 visits from 125 countries to
http://opencourselibrary.org
Over 80 media mentions worldwide
60. Open Course Library
Initial Impact
In the first year, students will save
$1.1 million in textbook costs
That’s more than we spent to develop
the courses… in year 1.
65. Conclusion
1. Digital + Open: Implement policies and
solutions to encourage content that is both
digital AND open (meaning
free, shareable, adaptable, and editable)
2. Lifelong Learning: Allow course content
to be persistent and discoverable with
tools like CourseSites (so students can
preview lessons before they are officially
enrolled and review them after).
66. Questions?
Tom Caswell
Email: tcaswell@sbctc.edu
Blog: http://tomcaswell.com
Twitter: @tom4cam
Slides available at: http://slideshare.net/tom4cam
Unless otherwise specified, this presentation by Tom Caswell is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License.
Editor's Notes
Many of us have a common dream: Thateveryone in the world can attain all the education they desire. That everyone have access to high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities.It will require we share the educational resources we produce and that we spend our limited public resources wisely.
And just like the United States … the rest of the world needs this dream to come true … and quickly… if we are to meet the global demand for higher education.Sir John Daniel, President & CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning notes:What do you think the odds are the world will build four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years?
The “iron triangle” suggests institutions are constrained in their ability to adapt.
We start with the Internet. Internet connectivity is virtually everywhere, and it provides the greatest distribution channel we have ever known.When we add digital content to the World Wide Web, we should be able to lower costs, increase access, and increase quality… right?
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In 2010 the State Board approved the first “open” policy.
The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. 42 courses have been completed so far, providing faculty with a high-quality option that will cost students no more than $30 per course.