This document discusses open learning and e-learning, and creating innovative intersections between them. It defines open learning as making education more accessible and student-centered. Open learning allows learners more control over their learning process by delivering opportunities when and how they need them. The document highlights examples of open universities and open courseware consortiums that are removing barriers to education. It also discusses how web-based technologies and Web 2.0 tools can support open and collaborative learning models, and provides examples of how these tools have been used. The focus is on creating lifelong learning communities and designing open learning experiences and portfolios using available digital tools.

1. Open Learning and E-Learning:
Creating Innovative Intersections
Creating Innovative Intersections
Betty Lawrence
Lisa Snyder
International Forum for
Women in eLearning
Dec. 1-3, 2010

2. Open Learning
"[...] both a process which focuses on access to
educational opportunities and a philosophy
which makes learning more client and student
centered."
Paine (1989, xi)

3. Open Learning
"Instructional systems in which many
facets of the learning process are under the
control of the learner. It attempts to deliver
learning opportunities where, when, and
how the learner needs them."
from: UNESCO Definitions

4. "From my perspective, the only
legitimate role for new media and
technology in education is to increase
our capacity to be generous with one
another. Because the more open we
are, the better education will be."
David Wiley, "Openness as a Catalyst for an
Educational Reformation"
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 4
(July/August 2010): 14–20
Open Learning

5. Open University
"The open and distance university
movement is removing barriers of geography,
time and cost while maintaining quality of
education. In some countries open and
distance education now serves more than one
third of the student population and this is
growing rapidly."
from: M-2009 World Conference
(23rd ICDE World Conference and the 2009
EADTU Annual Conference in Maastricht)

6. OCW Consortium members shown on the map:
•Massachusetts Institute of Technology
•Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
•Royal Roads University (Canada)
•The Open University (United Kingdom)
•The Open University of Israel
•Tokyo Institute of Technology
•Université de Lyon (France)
•University of California, Berkeley

7. http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education.html

8. Web-based Technologies
• Synchronous and asynchronous communication tools
o E-mail, instant messengers, forums, video conferencing
systems (Elluminate.com)
• Weblogs (blogs and microblogs)
o Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Twitter.com
• Wikis
o WikiEducator.org, PBworks.com
• Social networks
o Academia.edu, Ning.com, Facebook.com, Linkedln.com
• Podcasting, webcasting, video-sharing, and photo-sharing
services
o apple.com/education/itunes-u, webcasts.berkeley.edu,
YouTube.com, Flickr.com,
• E-portfolios
o cfkeep.org
• Social bookmarking services
o citeulike.org, digg.com, del.ici.ous
• Productivity Applications
o docs.google.com, Zoho.com

9. Learners as Producers Using Web 2.0
Patricia's Digital Story
"Home"
Collaborative
Wiki
Collaborative
Wordle
Collaborative
Twitter Story

10. www.esc.edu/smart

13. CDL Open Course Initiative

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20. How would you design and
incorporate Open Learning?

21. References
• Paine, N. (Ed.) (1989) Open Learning in transition: An agenda for action (London,
Kogan Page).
• Wiley, David "Openness as a Catalyst for an Educational Reformation"
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 14–20
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