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This document provides an overview of eCampusOntario, a not-for-profit organization funded by the Ontario government to support online and technology-enabled learning across Ontario's 45 public colleges and universities. eCampusOntario's mandate includes supporting quality online experiences, research and sharing of best practices, and helping institutions foster innovation and excellence. The presentation discusses eCampusOntario's strategic plan pillars of enhancing the student and faculty experience and building organizational capacity. It also covers rethinking learning through open educational resources, open textbooks, and their benefits like reducing costs, improving access, and enabling customization and collaboration.
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- 2. 2 ontario Lena Patterson, Senior Director, Programs and Stakeholder Relations Twitter: @lpatter10 Email: lpatterson@ecampusontario.ca Chris Fernlund, Lead, Student Supports Twitter: @fernfeed Email: cfernlund@ecampusontario.ca Slides reused, remixed, and re-engineered from original slides by David Porter and Lena Patterson. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License. Feel free to use, modify, reuse or redistribute any or all of this presentation.
- 3. 3 A little About Us Mandate A not-for-profit corporation, eCampusOntario is funded by the Government of Ontario to be a Centre of Excellence for Online and Technology-Enabled Learning for a membership composed of all 45- public colleges and universities in Ontario.
- 4. 4 A little About Us Who is eCampusOntario? Included in our mandate: • Support the development and delivery of quality online/technology-enabled learning experiences • Lead in research, development and sharing of exemplary practices in online and other forms of technology- enabled learning • Support member institutions in fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence on behalf of Ontario’s students and faculty • Contribute to the evolution of teaching and learning by:
- 5. 5 A little About us Contribute to the evolution of teaching and learning by: • Developing new capacity and (potentially) new technologies • Anticipating and responding to new and emerging technologies • Leverging existing strengths in Ontario’s post-secondary system • Supporting the development of state-of-the-art online courses and programs Who is eCampusOntario cont.
- 6. 6 FUNDING PROGRAMS OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY ONTARIO EXTEND EDTECH SANDBOX PORTAL SXD LAB OPEN BADGING OPEN PUBLISHING MARKETING & COMMS STUDENT/FACULTY SUPPORTS
- 8. 8 Enhance student experience STUDENT Support faculty development FACULTY Enhance member capacity and participation. INSITUTIONS Build eCampusOntario’s organization capacity eCAMPUSONTARIO Four Pillars of 2016-18 Strategic Plan
- 9. 9 Rethinking Rethinking learning resources Rethinking the learning experience. Rethinking recognition of learning.
- 11. UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/ open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/ UNESCO “Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”
- 13. 13 • The right to make,own and control copies of the contentRetain • The right to use the content in a wide range of waysReuse • The right to adapt, adjust, or modify the content itselfRevise • The right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new Remix • The right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others Redistribute Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 March 5, 2014, CC-BY The 5Rs of openness
- 14. PD-US via Wikimedia Commons “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages…” Source: United Nations, 1948, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26, paragraph 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights It started in 1948
- 15. Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012 /How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY 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
- 16. A simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to your creative work.
- 17. 17 ontario Textbook and resource materials costs have increased 129% over 15 years: nearly 4 times inflation* Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (2014) advises post secondary students to budget $800-$1000 per year for required course materials* Student Affordability: the current landscape • * Jhangiani, R. “Investigating the Perceptions, Use, and Impact of Open Textbooks: A survey of Post-Secondary Students in British Columbia” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol. 18, No. 4, June 2017
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- 19. 19 How does ontario benefit? Open content in high impact subjects Meaningful connections between educators and students Opportunity to share, adapt and update a resource at any time STUDENT SAVINGS COLLABORATION FLEXIBILITY
- 20. The 5 benefits of openness
- 21. 21 ontario Benefit #1: Full Legal Control • to customize • to localize • to personalize • to update • to translate • to remix Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
- 22. Image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law http://education-copyright.org/creative-commons/ Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa license
- 23. 23 Random Snapchat by Rubbertoe (Robert Batina) used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) What does this look like in practice?
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- 25. 25 ontario Benefit #2 Educator empowerment. I teach exactly what and how I want.
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- 27. 27 ontario Benefit #3 Learner engagement. I learn by contributing to the commons and building my potential as a scholar.
- 28. 28 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.”
- 29. 29 ontario Benefit #4 Collegial collaboration. I share my ideas with my colleagues and they share with me.
- 30. Textbook sprints
- 31. 31 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 + +
- 32. Library sprints
- 33. Open rangers + oer info sprints
- 34. 34 ontario Benefit #5 Service mission of institutions. My public institution contributes to the community.
- 37. 37 ontario RFP released to Ontario Colleges and Universities May 18, 2017 Minister launched Ontario Open Textbook Library June 6, 2017 Open Textbook projects due March 31, 2018 Support Open textbook initiative $1,000,000
- 39. Don’t reinvent it Adopt and adapt
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- 44. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Terry Goss But, beware of sharks in open waters
- 45. “Openwashing”
- 46. “Openwrapping”
- 47. Openness in education is not a new idea — but it needs renewed expression in a digital era and broader application in higher education Openness is not just a historical development — it is a social, cultural and economic phenomenon Fundamentally, education is a human right — let’s make educational resources openly accessible in all formats Take away messages
- 48. 48 Thank you VERY MUCH Thoughts or Questions?