A university professor is conducting an experiment in open education by sharing course materials online and maintaining open discussion forums. The forums are intended for students in the professor's courses and are voluntary and not a graded component. While participation can continue beyond the courses, any data from the forums will not be used for research without consent in order to maintain openness. The professor hopes this will help students develop their identity as teachers.

1. Open Education

2. A Relevant Experiment
Classrooms (including university teacher
education classrooms) are often private places
This has its pros and cons!
I’m trying the experiment, this semester, of
conducting my teacher education practice in a
more open way

3. Open Education
This process has a few dimensions:
All (most) PowerPoint slideshows from the
course will be shared on Slideshare
I will blog about my teaching (among many
other things) at http://www.bravus.com/blog/
I have created, and will maintain and
participate in, an open discussion forum at
http://www.bravus.com/tribes/

4. Open Forum
The forum is primarily intended for students in
‘my’ courses this year – both Semester One and
Semester Two
It has the advantage of being able to continue
throughout and beyond your time at Griffith
It is also open to the world, which means other
people interested in education can be invited and
participate – teacher education students and
teacher educators elsewhere, practicing teachers
and many more

5. Integration with Formal
Courses
Participation in any facet of the Open Education
experiment is not marked or required as part of
either 7032EDN – Middle Years Science
Curriculum or 7801EDN – Teaching and Learning
in the Middle Years
Similarly for 7033EDN – Senior Secondary
Science 1 and 7035EDN – Senior Secondary
Science 2 in Semester 2
Participation is completely voluntary – intended
to help you

6. Research
In the interests of increased openness, I will not
be using any ‘data’ (posts) at the forum for
research purposes. This means you will not be
asked to sign a consent form to participate. (You
will be asked to agree to abide by the Terms and
Conditions of the site when you register.)
I might write about my own experience with Open
Education, but will not quote, describe or identify
you: I will be writing about myself, for which I give
consent.

7. Who Am I?
Let’s start with a discussion topic:
As I’ll be talking about in the Week 2 lecture, ‘we
teach out of who we are’
Learning to teach is an ‘identity project’: a
process of developing a new identity as a
teacher
We’ll get to your teacher identity soon, but let’s
just start with a personal identity – ‘Who am I?’
I’ll get the ball rolling, and others have too