This presentation was part of the eLearn 2015 conference in Waikaloa, Hawaii. The presentation goes through the high level findings from a Spring 2015 research study on UVa student perceptions and behaviors of MOOCs.
The objective of this presentation is to first, set the background, including the most recent events, around MOOCs. Of course, MOOCs are just an extension of a much earlier and deeper movement toward open education, but they represent a very important milestone in the development of universal higher education, where everyone can learn anything, anytime, anywhere, for free. We will also make some predictions, based on solid evidence, about where MOOCs are going and what their effect will be. Then we will develop some institutional strategies that might make sense given the background and predilections.
The messy realities of learning and participation in open courses and MOOCsGeorge Veletsianos
Presentation at Canada's Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research Conference (COHERE), Vancouver, BC. In this presentation, I describe the messy realities of learning and participation in open online courses. I discuss the MOOC phenomenon as a symptom of chronic failures in the higher education system and discuss what we can learn about learning experiences by studying learning "on the ground."
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
This presentation provides a summary of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) research and how it’s being organized around the world. MOOCs offer research objects that have the potential to address many of the issues higher education researchers face. They present new and unique opportunities to understand how people learn across a broad spectrum of educational mediums. MOOCs cross the boundaries between formal and informal learning in an unprecedented way, with each MOOC course offering opportunities for researchers to study how people select and engage with learning resources. This presentation will identify important questions: how are these research efforts being focused? What are they trying to learn? What impact are they having? What are they revealing about higher education? It also will explore the current state of MOOC research, summarize the approaches being taken, highlight some of the results that are coming from the research, and make predictions about what we might expect in the future.
Beyond Accreditation and Standards: The Distance Educator’s Opportunity for L...Gary Matkin
This presentation will provide practical suggestions for distance educators to take a leadership position amidst the call from accrediting bodies for institutions of higher education to become more accountable and transparent. Presentation will address content management, learner feedback, “openness”, and the establishment of infrastructure to meet these new requirements.
Why should you care about OER is an overview of OER and the California Open Online Library for Education (cool4ed.org) given for faculty at the Porterville College Summer Institute on May 25, 2015.
Una Daly, CCCOER Director (May 2016)
Online Proctoring: How NOVA Ensures Academic Integrity (Webinar)ProctorU
Dr. William Preston Davis with Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) has overseen a program that served over 21,000 online students in 2011 and will share what he's learned about distance education. Dr. Davis will discuss how online proctoring has helped shape his school's web-based pedagogy and give details about the important part that testing plays in their program. The discussion will also include how online proctoring with ProctorU fills an important instructional need in their distance learning curriculum.
Higher Education Technology Outlook in AfricaGreig Krull
Higher Education Technology Outlook in Africa. Presentation for Linking Student Satisfaction, Quality Assurance and Peer Review in Higher Education Conference, 13 March 2014.
MOOCs @ Edinburgh: our approach, experience and outcomesJisc Scotland
Amy Woodgate and Christine Sinclair present MOOCs @ Edinburgh: our approach, experience and outcomes at the MOOCs in Scottish Education event at the University of Strathclyde, hosted by RSC Scotland on 19th March 2014.
The objective of this presentation is to first, set the background, including the most recent events, around MOOCs. Of course, MOOCs are just an extension of a much earlier and deeper movement toward open education, but they represent a very important milestone in the development of universal higher education, where everyone can learn anything, anytime, anywhere, for free. We will also make some predictions, based on solid evidence, about where MOOCs are going and what their effect will be. Then we will develop some institutional strategies that might make sense given the background and predilections.
The messy realities of learning and participation in open courses and MOOCsGeorge Veletsianos
Presentation at Canada's Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research Conference (COHERE), Vancouver, BC. In this presentation, I describe the messy realities of learning and participation in open online courses. I discuss the MOOC phenomenon as a symptom of chronic failures in the higher education system and discuss what we can learn about learning experiences by studying learning "on the ground."
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
This presentation provides a summary of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) research and how it’s being organized around the world. MOOCs offer research objects that have the potential to address many of the issues higher education researchers face. They present new and unique opportunities to understand how people learn across a broad spectrum of educational mediums. MOOCs cross the boundaries between formal and informal learning in an unprecedented way, with each MOOC course offering opportunities for researchers to study how people select and engage with learning resources. This presentation will identify important questions: how are these research efforts being focused? What are they trying to learn? What impact are they having? What are they revealing about higher education? It also will explore the current state of MOOC research, summarize the approaches being taken, highlight some of the results that are coming from the research, and make predictions about what we might expect in the future.
Beyond Accreditation and Standards: The Distance Educator’s Opportunity for L...Gary Matkin
This presentation will provide practical suggestions for distance educators to take a leadership position amidst the call from accrediting bodies for institutions of higher education to become more accountable and transparent. Presentation will address content management, learner feedback, “openness”, and the establishment of infrastructure to meet these new requirements.
Why should you care about OER is an overview of OER and the California Open Online Library for Education (cool4ed.org) given for faculty at the Porterville College Summer Institute on May 25, 2015.
Una Daly, CCCOER Director (May 2016)
Online Proctoring: How NOVA Ensures Academic Integrity (Webinar)ProctorU
Dr. William Preston Davis with Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) has overseen a program that served over 21,000 online students in 2011 and will share what he's learned about distance education. Dr. Davis will discuss how online proctoring has helped shape his school's web-based pedagogy and give details about the important part that testing plays in their program. The discussion will also include how online proctoring with ProctorU fills an important instructional need in their distance learning curriculum.
Higher Education Technology Outlook in AfricaGreig Krull
Higher Education Technology Outlook in Africa. Presentation for Linking Student Satisfaction, Quality Assurance and Peer Review in Higher Education Conference, 13 March 2014.
MOOCs @ Edinburgh: our approach, experience and outcomesJisc Scotland
Amy Woodgate and Christine Sinclair present MOOCs @ Edinburgh: our approach, experience and outcomes at the MOOCs in Scottish Education event at the University of Strathclyde, hosted by RSC Scotland on 19th March 2014.
Community College Consortium for OER Panel: Increasing Student Retention and ...Una Daly
Presentation at the Online Teaching Conference Jun 18, 2015 in San Diego, CA:
The cost of textbooks has been identified as a major barrier for students completing their education. Colleges seeking to increase student retention and success are promoting the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs and improve pedagogy. A key strategy for college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their best practices and other tactics for nurturing a national community of practice focused on open education.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 250 member colleges in 19 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at monthly online meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through our advisory listserve allows new members to quickly find and adopt the highest quality OER available. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues in higher education.
Hear from this panel of OER experts about how they promote open textbooks and OER adoption at their colleges:
Una Daly, Director of CCCOER and Curriculum Design at the Open Education Consortium. Panel facilitator.
Katie Datko: Interim Associate Dean of Distance Education and Instructional Designer, Pasadena City College.
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons, President of CCCOER Advisory
Barbara Illowsky: Dean of Basic Skills & OER, CCC Online Ed Initiative and Mathematics professor at De Anza College.
Cherylee Kushida: Distance Education Coordinator and Computer Science professor at Santa Ana College.
Preparing Instructors to Teach Online: Two Faculty Development ModelsKathy Keairns
Two directors of online learning, one from a Colorado Community College and one from a private university in Denver, share their faculty development models. Presented at the 2013 eLearning Consortium of Colorado annual conference in Breckenridge, Colorado.
CCCOER OTC Faculty Panel: The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Open Educat...Una Daly
CCCOER Faculty Panel: The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER)
Hear from faculty who have developed and adopted open textbooks, open courseware, and open resources to lower costs and improve teaching and learning. Topics include adopting and customizing a psychology open textbook, developing an open online course for administration of justice remediation, and collaborative development of a “how-to-learn-online” course utilizing only existing OER. Attendees will also find out how their college can become involved in the open education movement and participate in the Community College Consortium (CCCOER) at the OpenCourseWare Consortium to share lesson learned and find partners for collaboration.
Cynthia Alexander, Educational Technology Professor, Cerritos College
Michelle Pilati, Psychology Professor, Rio Hondo College
Lisa Storm, Administration of Justice Professor, Hartnell College
Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Beyond Blended: Realigning Higher Education for the 21st Century Learner Thro...Valerie Irvine
Keynote presentation on Beyond Blended to COHERE 2014 conference. See cohere.ca for archived video. Focus is on multi-access learning and supporting learners through personalization, assessment for learning, openness, connected, and access.
This presentation will serve these three purposes and also propose that the OCW Consortium take a leadership role in serving as a clearing house and advocate for the sharing of data and experimental results across institutions, in order to advance the use of open material to fuel education innovation.
Badging Open Content at The Open UniversityDr Patrina Law
The concept of badging (or ‘soft accreditation’) has been piloted in various forms in the Open University (OU) in 2013. This presentation shows what the University learnt from its pilot projects and how it is subsequently developing a suite of badges for informal and formal students.
Developing a Pedagogy Framework for Institution-Wide Implementation of MOOC: ...Enna Ayub
How Taylor’s University deployed its MOOC implementation campus-wide.
Share the pedagogy framework contains a plan on developing a sustaining momentum of academic’s participation for MOOCs.
Reflects on the content development process:
1.Training
2.Challenges
3.Best Practices
4.Way Forward
Video files shared are not uploaded.
This presentation reports on findings arising from the collaborative research carried out by OER Research Hub and Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER).
- Most of the respondents have used some sort of OER, though only around a quarter create OER
- Most report positive effects on their teaching practice as a result of OER use, particularly around peer collaboration and improved subject knowledge
- A smaller proportion (but still in excess of 40%) feel that OER use directly leads to improved reflection on pedagogical practice
- Positive effects were also identified for learners, especially around increased self-reliance, subject interest and experimentation
- There were similar numbers who thought OER wasn’t making much of a difference and a core of what might be termed ‘anti-OER’ responses
- There were mixed views about whether OER was saving institutions money, but approximately 2/3 felt that students had saved money
- Around 1/3 believe that OER is improving student attrition while around 1/2 believe it is not having an effect
- Only around half of OER creators have used open licensing
- There is a core of advocates who understand and actively promote OER; they adopt open educational practices and believe it leads to benefits
Similar to MOOCs at UVa for eLearn October 2015 (20)
This presentation goes through the program Providing Skill Training to Women Entrepreneurs in Africa's Leading Ladies Community with lessons learned and data on best practices.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Online Peer-LearningDr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation goes through the work I've been doing with Distance Education for Africa and the University of Virginia. This work is based on the Community of Inquiry model for online learning and uses Facebook and WhatsApp with dedicated mentors to reach tens of thousands of women entrepreneurs across Africa to build community and increase capacity for growing successful businesses.
This slide set goes through the difference between stress and anxiety and provides tools and tips for coping with stress and anxiety. It is part of a free workshop series.
Manage your money rather than your money managing you. These slides go through some basic terms, templates, and best practices for managing your money. Learn about net equity, compound interest, and Dave Ramsey's envelope system and debt snowball.
This workshop summarizes the key ideas from Tara Mohr's Playing Big book. The ideas discussed include naming your inner critic, nurturing your inner mentor, leaping into opportunities, understanding pachad vs. yirah fear, and communicating with power.
This presentation has slides that cover most of the topics from the Atomic Habits book by James Clear. This is a super long slide set with templates. I took a subset of these slides for the free one hour workshop I hosted in November 2022. I'm posting all the slides here in case there is anyone out there looking for a more comprehensive summary of the Atomic Habits book with the habit loop and tools, techniques, and templates for creating the habits you want and stopping the habits you no longer want.
Atomic Habits Handout with Templates and Key Messages.pdfDr. Kristin Palmer
Handout for virtual workshop on James Clear's Atomic Habits book. Learn how to build habits and use the templates to support you. The virtual workshop is being held in November 2022. More information at http://www.CentralOregonLifeCoach.com.
These slides summarize the Designing Your Life book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Dr. Kristin Palmer led a workshop walking through big ideas in the book sharing templates and tools for helping people to design a live they can love. You can reach Dr. Palmer through http://www.CentralOregonLifeCoach.com.
Using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework to Deliver High Quality Educat...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation is for the NWeLearn 2022 Annual Conference being held the week of October 11, 2022. This presentation goes through the program design, issues, and best practices from the African Scholarship Cohort Program.
This presentation walks through the African Scholarship Program that is done in partnership with Distance Education for Africa. It details the outreach, results, and program design.
Keeping Small Changes Faculty Made During COVID that had a Big Impact on Lear...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation is for the IAFOR International Conference on Education (IICE) being held in January 2022. The presentation walks through best practices by faculty for engaging with students and creating impactful learning environments during the COVID pandemic.
HICE Online Education Outreach in Africa Creates Lasting Economic Impact and ...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation discusses the African Scholarship program, the design and outcomes. This program has created lasting economic impact and promotes gender equity across Africa.
HICE Small Changes, Big Impact: Effective Pedagogical Practices Started Durin...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation showcases high-impact practices for teaching online based on the http://cte.virginia.edu/small-changes-big-impact website. This is for a conference I can not attend due to travel restrictions.
ICDE Using MOOCs and Whatsapp in Africa to Create Lasting Economic Impact and...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This concise impact talk for the ICDE virtual global conference talks to our Africa Scholarship program and how it has promoted lasting economic impact and gender equity.
ICDE Effective Pedagogical Principles that are Easy to Implement and Have Big...Dr. Kristin Palmer
This presentation covers some of the ideas that faculty at UVA shared as effective practices during COVID that they plan to keep for both face-to-face and online teaching.
This presentation walks through challenges supporting Asian students in US degree programs. Issues with travel visas, access to content, and student support are discussed. Opportunities to partner with Beacon Education highlight their technical platform, student support, industry and government partnerships.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
1. MOOCs: Perception and Usage
Patterns of UVa Students
Dr. Kristin Olson Palmer
@kpatwork
Director of Online Learning Programs
Office of the Provost, UVa
http://provost.virginia.edu/open-learning
2. Fired/Rehired President
UVa partner with Coursera
MOOCs from 2012-2014
Research Focus, Elite Public
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Me: Start-Ups and Education
3. What do UVa students
think about MOOCs?
What do they do in
MOOCs?
11. Clickstream Data Findings
Two groups of students:
1. Students who took the MOOC as required
for their class
2. Students where the MOOC was optional
12. For MOOCs that were required as part of
residential course work, the data indicates
that students completed whatever
components were specifically required as
part of the course grade.
A majority of the students watched some
of the course videos though no one
watched all.
13. For MOOCs that were optional, the
data indicates students watch some
lectures and take some quizzes
although rarely download videos or
post to discussion forums.
If students take the quizzes, chances
are high that they will take the quizzes
multiple times.
14. Conclusions
Residential UVa students:
• Want to keep traditional
classrooms
• Want more online resources
• Will participate in online
materials that are required for
their grade