This document discusses a case study of a small open online course (SOOC) on observing and analyzing performance in sport. The course explored the possibilities of open educational resources and platforms to connect and share information. It used a connectivist approach and the OpenLearning platform to facilitate online discussions. The paper concludes that an open educational model can transform how the field of computer science in sport is studied and practiced globally by making course materials freely accessible online.

1. Transforming the ways we share information:
a case study of a small open online course
Keith Lyons
National Institute of Sport Studies
University of Canberra

3. We are at an exciting time in education.
The increasing availability of open educational resources and stable, open internet
platforms is transforming the ways we connect with each other and share information.
This paper reports on how a small open online course (SOOC), Observing and Analysing
Performance in Sport, explored the possibilities available.
The course is available online at present as an asynchronous resource with all materials
from the course available under Creative Commons license.

4. There was a synchronous course that ran in November 2012.
The paper outlines the connectivist approach that informed the course.
It discusses participation patterns and the facilitation of discussion using the
OpenLearning platform.
It concludes with a discussion of how an open educational model can transform
the ways we develop a global approach to the study and practice of computer science in
sport.

5. Connectivism
“At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of
connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse
those networks.” Downes (2007)
"Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and
complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that occurs within
nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of
the individual." Siemens (2005)

6. Open educational resources are materials used
to support education that may be freely
accessed, reused, modified and shared by
anyone.
Downes (2011)

7. A Small Open Online Course
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8. Connecting and Sharing
Observing Performance
Visualising Data
Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Augmented Reality

10. OpenLearning

11. An open educational model?
(“The purpose of the word 'freely' in the definition is intended
to stipulate that the resource may be accessed without
conditions. This, by the definition, means without payment.”)
Open educational resources are materials
used to support education that may be freely
accessed, reused, modified and shared by
anyone.
Downes (2011)

12. ... to transform how we share our
understanding of computer science in sport
with new, global audiences ... eager to learn