This document provides an overview of a presentation on open innovation in higher education in Ontario. The presentation discusses challenges in teaching and learning that can trigger deeper thinking. It promotes engaging students in knowledge construction and employing their own technology effectively. The presentation also discusses eCampusOntario which supports 45 institutions, over 16,000 courses and 700 programs. It advocates extending practice as a guiding principle and rethinking learning resources, experiences and recognition to bring an open perspective to higher education in Ontario.
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David Porter, Ed.D.
CEO, eCampusOntario
davidp@ecampusontario.ca
Twitter: @dendroglyph
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My response was predictable
§ I used Google to research teaching practices for
bringing interactivity and engagement to large-scale
lectures.
§ I researched how to employ the students’ own
technology effectively in lecture halls to support
learning engagement and lesson outcomes.
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An immersive, experiential learning opportunity where the participants are
challenged to teach and learn with different modes and formats, to create and
collaborate using digital technology tools, and to discern what approaches may
be used to design significant technology-enabled learning experiences.
@ontarioextend extend.ecampusontario.ca #oextend
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Ontario Extend is a capacity-building
initiative that is grounded in the belief that
the impact on learning should be the primary
motivator for creating technology-enabled
and online learning experiences.
ing
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Enhance student experience
STUDENT
Support faculty development
FACULTY
Enhance member capacity and
participation.
INSITUTIONS
Build eCampusOntario’s
organizational capacity
eCAMPUSONTARIO
Four Pillars of 2016-18 Strategic Plan
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Rethinking AS a Theme
to guide our program designs
Rethinking learning resources
Rethinking the learning experience
Rethinking recognition of learning
Designs
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Grant freedoms instead of imposing restrictions
Sharing is fundamental to teaching
Collaboration is a good thing
Assumptions about Openness
32. Open Education encompasses resources, tools
and practices that are free of legal, financial
and technical barriers and can be fully used,
shared and adapted in the digital
environment.
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition- sparcopen.org
33. Images from Oxfam.org CC BY and
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Why is this work happening?
To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
To improve student learning by removing barriers to resources
To give faculty more control over their instructional resources
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From the arrival of its first human inhabitants tens of thousands
of years ago to its increasingly globalized modern population,
the Canadian state has undergone numerous transformations.
This course will examine the history of Canada from its earliest
times to the present focusing of key transformations in the
country’s environmental, social, political, economic and
cultural history.
Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation
Bumsted, J.M., Len Kuffert, and Michel Ducharme. Interpreting
Canada’s Past: A Pre-Confederation Reader. Fourth Edition
Bumsted, J.M., Len Kuffert, and Michel Ducharme. Interpreting
Canada’s Past: A Post-Confederation Reader. Fourth Edition
Nelles, H.V. A Little History of Canada. Second Edition
Organization of
the Course
Course Description
Course Schedule
Assignments
and Evaluation
Readings
(Required Textbooks)
5% Written Assignment 1
10% Written Assignment 2
10% Written Assignment 3
15% Written Assignment 4
5% Weekly Quizzes
15% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
20% Tutorial Participation
Department of History • Instructor: Sean Kheraj
Kheraj Office: Vari Hall 2124
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30am-11:30am
Email: kherajs@yorku.ca
@seankheraj #yorkhist2500 @YorkHist
5%
5%
10%
10%
20%
20%
15%
15%
LECTURES TUTORIALS READINGS ASSIGNMENTS
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
HIST 2500:
Canadian History
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8
WEEK 9 WEEK 10
Why
Canadian
History?
Indigenous
America and
Global Human
Migrations
French
Colonial
Society
Furs and
the French
Empire
Remaking
the Atlantic
Colonies
The Fall
of New
France
The
Revolution
of British
America
Fur Trade
Frontier
Colonial
Life and
Empire
Politics,
Conflict, and
Rebellion
WEEK 11 WEEK 12 WEEK 13 WEEK 14 WEEK 15 WEEK 16
WEEK 17 WEEK 18 WEEK 19 WEEK 20 WEEK 21 WEEK 22 WEEK 23 WEEK 24
Confederation
and the Idea
of Canada
Consolidating
the Canadian
Empire
Labour
and
Capital
Reform
Movements
War
Society
The Farmer-
Labour
Revolts
Depression
and Dissent
Total
War
Post-War
Society
Next to an
Elephant
Limited
Identities
Aboriginal
People in the
Twentieth
Century
Neo-Liberalism
and the History
of Stephen
Harper
Twenty-First
Century
Canada
Visual Course Syllabus by Ken Hui and Sean Kheraj is licensed using a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License
Textbook SprintS +
Ancillary teaching resources
Open Textbook Seminar Handbook
Visual Course Syllabus
+ +
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5.5 million views per month.
ChemWiki most visited chemistry website
in the world.
Delmar Larsen offers extra credit to students who submit entries
to an online Chemistry textbook. He assigns a rating system to
new articles based on the author's expertise and experience, with
articles moving up as they are edited and vetted.
Sources: ChemWiki takes on costly textbooks UC Davis News,
October 2013 UCD Hyperlink Newsletter October 2014
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Robin DeRosa
Plymouth State University – New Hampshire
The Open Anthology
of Early American Literature
“I launched the open textbook project over a summer,
and because I teach at a public university where I had
no easy access to graduate assistants or funding, I hired
a bunch of undergrad students and recent alums, and
paid them out of my own pocket to assist me. Turns
out, most of them were willing to work for free (I
didn’t let them, though what I paid was low because it
was all I could spare), and turns out the whole
endeavor of building the work turned out to be
transformative to my own pedagogy and to the course
that followed.”
61. Rethinking learning experiences
• Addressing the engagement
factors in online learning
• Upping our designs for
learning to add authentic,
relevant, real-world projects
• Bringing students into the
learning design process
• Investing in OPEN
innovation
79. Quilt is a community-
based, digital platform that
allows students to co-
create open educational
resources together
Their mission is to use
student work in the
classroom to create an
open learning community.
They envision a world
where students act as
creators and take
ownership of their
education.
Creating a
prototype
80. Open Innovation as a
guiding principle
Moving ideas to action
through intentional
engagement with student
ideas
Mapping
strategy to
action
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82. Rethinking Recognition of learning
Empowering the “t-shaped
student”
• Co-curricular records
• Internships and practicums
• Community volunteer programs
• Self-directed practical
experiences
Enabling and authenticating
“can-do” skills and competencies
87. How do we more
broadly address the
experiential learning
desires of students?
Driving growth and innovation through technology-enabled learning
How do we provide
students with relevant
real-world projects as
practical experiences?
How to we allow employers
to audition student talent
while the students are still
in school?
How can we provide managed environments for
supporting experiential learning?
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Focus on Three Strategies
STRATEGY 1
LEAD THROUGH
OPEN AND
COLLABORATIVE
PRACTICES
STRATEGY 2
BUILD CAPACITY
THROUGH
SHARED AND
COLLABORATIVE
SERVICES
STRATEGY 3
INSPIRE INNOVATION
THROUGH
INVESTMENT IN
APPLIED RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT
FOR TECHNOLOGY-
ENABLED LEARNING
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Translating strategy
into action
Open Innovation as a guiding principle
Funding calls for two focus areas: open
resources, and research and innovation
Funding to support development of a
shared service structure for educational
applications to support institutions, faculty
and students
Calls for proposals targets:
• RFP – May 31, 2018
• RFP submissions close – July 6, 2018
• Proposals adjudicated – August 17, 2018
• Awards announced – September 7, 2018
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What is Open Innovation?
Open Innovation is “the use of purposive
inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate
internal innovation, and expand the markets for
external use of innovation, respectively.” **
Open innovation is a good fit for a system
agency that distributes public funds to benefit
system partners: institutions, faculty and
students
Our focus at eCampusOntario is to enhance
learning and teaching practices through an
open innovation agenda that is centred on
open resource development and evidence-
based scholarship (SoTL)
** Source: Chesbrough, H. (2006) Open innovation: researching a new paradigm. Oxford University Press.
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funding targets for 2018-19
For Investment in open + collaborative initiatives,
Shared services and research and innovation ACTIVITIES
Investments in collaborative and
shared services that benefit
institutions, faculty and students.
Services aimed at reducing costs
while increasing capabilities.
1.3M
S 2 : S H A R E D S E R V I C E S
Investments in open and
collaborative programs, localized
in institutions and as system-wide
initiatives . Funding to flow as
grants (RFPs).
6.65M
S 1 : O P E N I N I T I A T I V E S
Funding for research and innovation
initiatives that further our knowledge in
emergent areas of practice including AI, VR,
AR, authentic assessment, prior learning
assessment, microcredentials (RFPs)
3.5M
S 3 : R E S E A R C H A N D I N N O V A T I O N
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Strategy 1:
Open +
collaborative
Initiatives
Call for Proposals
Theme areas for development
o OER for flexible, online and blended learning in
trades training and technology
o OER for a full credential (Z-Cred)
o OER for experiential learning and workplace
integration
o OER for virtual simulation and augmented reality
o OER for curriculum materials and ancilliary
resources for courses with open textbooks
o OER for Health Sciences and STEM
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Strategy 2:
Shared Services
Funding to support the development of a shared
service infrastructure for educational applications
for institutions, faculty and students
Focus group with AVPs Teaching and Learning
Survey to institutions through VPA Office
Focus group with CIOs
Select candidate technologies for Sandbox 2
Develop procurement process for moving desired
educational technology applications into a
service environment
Shared services
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Strategy 3:
Research and Innovation - Centres of excellence
Investments in research to design,
test and/or evaluate experiential
learning initiatives that can be
scaled to serve member institutions.
Research on skills gap assessment
and training strategies, recognition
of prior learning, authentic
assessment, recognition of
transversal skills, and adaptive
learning systems
E X P E R I E N T I A L
L E A R N I N G
Investments for research on open
pedagogies, collaborative
practice models, peer assessment
strategies, open innovation and
co-creation projects with
students, including moving
SXDLab projects from
development prototyping to
evaluation in classrooms
O P E N E D U C A T I O N A L
P R A C T I C E S
Funding for research and innovation initiatives that
further our knowledge in emergent areas of practice
including tools and techniques for inclusive design
for learning, virtual reality, augmented reality,
serious games, planning and mapping of curricula
and personal learning, micro-credentials,
competency-based and adaptive learning or training
systems
R E S E A R C H I N E M E R G E N T A R E A S
O F T E C H - E N A B L E D L E A R N I N G