Session 8 for Education E-107, Open Education Practice and Potential, Spring 2011 (Harvard University Extension) taught by M.S. Vijay Kumar and Brandon Muramatsu

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 Exploring Assessment and Deeper Learning possible through Open Education Guest Speaker: Candace Thille Review of Midterm Assignment 2

3. News Related to Open Education 3 Source: Inside Higher Ed. (2011, March 23). Master of ‘Disruption’ Paints Gloomy Picture for College Leaders. Retrieved March 23, 2011 from Inside Higher Education website at: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/08/qt/master_of_disruption_paints_gloomy_picture_for_college_leaders

4. Candace Thille Director, Open Learning Initiative Carnegie Mellon University 4

5. Technology and Open Education(From March 10 Class) Course packs Web Lecture videos Podcasts Wikipedia Electricity and computers E-libraries Blogs Skype Google Chat Portable devices Content editing platforms/wikis iPhones Google docs and sharing Moodle (open source learning management system) Voice thread Tag and search tools Repository/drop boxes Vimeo Mindmeister (collaborative mindmappingtools)cioa Parting Question: What are the requirements that make these candidate technologies for education? 5

6. What’s the importance of these technologies for Open Education Technologies for… Producing OER Locate Lead to use for teaching or learning “actionable access” …more than just looking at it… What are the essential requirements to enable the aspirations of Open Reuse, Remix, Revise, Redistribute 6

7. Linking Content and The Curriculum Avision in the context of a nascent university in India 7

8. Next Week Assignment 7, Due March 28 See the Assignments page for more details Guest Speaker in Class! 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 8 Credit: U.S. Department of Education