The document summarizes the agenda and key discussion points from a quarterly membership meeting of the Open Education Consortium. The meeting included presentations on OCW Scholar courses from MIT and calls for proposals for the Open Education Global Conference and Open Education Week 2016. Other topics discussed were the Open Education Awards for Excellence, results from a membership survey, the Open Education Information Center, and the OECx MOOC project. Members provided feedback and suggestions to inform the Consortium's future activities.
Jan 29 using oer for workforce developmentUna Daly
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10:00 am (Pacific time) for a webinar on finding, developing, and adopting OER for workforce training and job search skills at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects that are actively engaged in developing and promoting free and open resources to expand student access and improve career opportunities.
nursing students
The Saylor Foundation – Their Clinton Global Initiative project to provide open and free career skills training to disconnected youth and adult learners through the creation of multiple professional development modules will be shared. Courses available on on their website as well as options for mobile learners through iTunes will be shown.
Twenty Millions Minds Foundation - Their work with community college faculty to develop open textbooks for the allied health professions including nursing and physical therapy will be shared. Innovative approaches such as faculty hackathons for digital content development will be discussed.
KQED Education - The work voice video series featuring ESL students in Silicon Valley who have achieved new careers through programs and skills received at community colleges will be shared. Additional lesson plans for faculty who work with ESL students will be shown.
Jan 29 using oer for workforce developmentUna Daly
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10:00 am (Pacific time) for a webinar on finding, developing, and adopting OER for workforce training and job search skills at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects that are actively engaged in developing and promoting free and open resources to expand student access and improve career opportunities.
nursing students
The Saylor Foundation – Their Clinton Global Initiative project to provide open and free career skills training to disconnected youth and adult learners through the creation of multiple professional development modules will be shared. Courses available on on their website as well as options for mobile learners through iTunes will be shown.
Twenty Millions Minds Foundation - Their work with community college faculty to develop open textbooks for the allied health professions including nursing and physical therapy will be shared. Innovative approaches such as faculty hackathons for digital content development will be discussed.
KQED Education - The work voice video series featuring ESL students in Silicon Valley who have achieved new careers through programs and skills received at community colleges will be shared. Additional lesson plans for faculty who work with ESL students will be shown.
The Critical Role of Librarians In OER AdoptionUna Daly
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, February 26, 10:00 am (Pacific time) to hear about the critical work that librarians do to support OER adoption at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects where librarians are leading the way in searching, curating, and creating OER to expand student access and improve teaching practices.
card catalog cc-by-nc-sa reeding lessons
Paradise Valley Community College, AZ –Sheila Afnan-Manns and Kande Mickelson, faculty librarians will share how they worked with students in International Business to find and create OER to support course learning outcomes.
Houston Community College District, TX – Angela Secrest, director of library services, will share her libguides that support faculty in the process of finding and adopting high quality OER.
Open Course Library(OCL), WA – Shireen Deboo, OCL and Seattle Community Colleges district librarian will share her work with faculty to find, create, and curate open content for inclusion in the Washington State Community and Technical College’s Open Course Library.
Presentation on UCT MOOCs project to the University of Western Cape's School of Public Health workshop (Emerging models in Public Health education) , 20 May 2015
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Making use of MOOCs
Janet Small, Andrew Deacon, & Sukaina Walji
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town. UCT 2015/6 Teaching & Learning Conference workshop
University of Cape Town 30 March 2016
Learning through engagement: MOOCs as an emergent form of provision. Presentation at ICDE World Conference, Sun City, South Africa, October 2015. Sukaina Walji, Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Janet Small
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within t...Leigh-Anne Perryman
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
Paper presented by Leigh-Anne Perryman and John Lesperance at OE Global 2015, Banff, Canada.
Considering MOOC Learner Experiences: An insider's perspective. Presented by Ed Campbell, Learning Designer at the Learning LandsCAPE conference
May 2016
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Professional Development Programme on OER-based e-learningPat Toh
Open Educational Resources have emerged as one of the most innovative teaching and learning tools as well as a cost-effective mechanism to improve the quality of educational offerings by optimising the use of available resources. While OER can be used by any student to learn on his/her own, universities (especially Open Universities) that depend on printed distance learning materials can now use the OERs to offer their courses and programmes and thereby reduce the development time of courses and programmes, and also reduce the cost of launching new programmes. However, not many institutions are in a position to actually develop OERs that can be used effectively for teaching and learning in the digital environment.
The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), realising the need for professional development of teachers, has developed this professional development programme on OER-based eLearning to promote the use of OER in educational institutions.
The programme has been developed as part of the institutional capacity building for OER-based eLearning at Wawasan Open University (WOU), Penang. Faculty members of WOU and several other institutions in Asia have contributed to the development of the contents. The modules are learning outcomes of the participants in three workshops supported by CEMCA.
OECx: Building Openly Licensed MOOCs to Enhance Re-use, Interactivity, and Le...Una Daly
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) launched a pilot in 2014 to demonstrate the power of re-using openly licensed course content to develop Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and revitalize and update existing OER/OCW in the process. Converting existing OCW into MOOCs offers OEC member institutions opportunities to gather information about how learners interact with the content and offers learners greater opportunities for interactivity with instructors, peers, and the content. Partnering with edX, OEC has offered member institutions the opportunity to develop MOOCs on a leading technology platform that provides different options for how learners engage in a course. Learners may choose to audit a course or sign-up for a verified certificate for a modest fee that can be used for academic or career enrichment.
Using their existing open courseware and open educational resources (OER), members have launched MOOCs that offer high-quality learning experiences with the option of a verified (fee-based) certificate available to learners throughout the world. Participating members in the pilot include the National Chiao Tung University, Tufts University, University Polytechnic of Madrid, Open University’s TESS India project, Anne Arundel Community College, and the University of Hokkaido. The courses range from the technology of energy, biology of water and health, introduction to helicopters, corporate social responsibility, teacher education, introduction to business, and the effects of radiation.
Panelist from the MOOC development team at Open University, University Polytechnic of Madrid, and University of Hokkaido will share best practices for developing and running openly licensed MOOCs. Lesson learned about developing MOOCs with OER and strategies for enhancing student engagement and interactivity will be shared.
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. We seek to instill openness as a feature of education around the world, allowing greatly expanded access to education while providing a shared body of knowledge upon which innovative and effective approaches to today’s social problems can be built.
EdX, a not-for-profit enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, was created for students and institutions that seek to transform themselves through cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy, and rigorous courses. Through our institutional partners, the xConsortium, along with other leading global members, we present the best of higher education online, offering opportunity to anyone who wants to achieve, thrive, and grow.
Open Education Week: Community College OER Innovation PanelUna Daly
Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013
From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college.
Website: http://oerconsortium.org
How to participate
Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC
Webinar language: English
PRIOR TO THE MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness
Use the following link to login to the webinar: http://www.cccconfer.org/MyConfer/GoToMeetingAnonymousely.aspx?MeetingSeriesID=7f5ae919-67a1-4e98-8cf7-861fc0692b93
When prompted, please enter first and last name, email address, and screen name and click on the Connect button to proceed to webinar.
Speakers
Una Daly
MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Dr. Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona
Quill West
OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington
The Critical Role of Librarians In OER AdoptionUna Daly
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, February 26, 10:00 am (Pacific time) to hear about the critical work that librarians do to support OER adoption at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects where librarians are leading the way in searching, curating, and creating OER to expand student access and improve teaching practices.
card catalog cc-by-nc-sa reeding lessons
Paradise Valley Community College, AZ –Sheila Afnan-Manns and Kande Mickelson, faculty librarians will share how they worked with students in International Business to find and create OER to support course learning outcomes.
Houston Community College District, TX – Angela Secrest, director of library services, will share her libguides that support faculty in the process of finding and adopting high quality OER.
Open Course Library(OCL), WA – Shireen Deboo, OCL and Seattle Community Colleges district librarian will share her work with faculty to find, create, and curate open content for inclusion in the Washington State Community and Technical College’s Open Course Library.
Presentation on UCT MOOCs project to the University of Western Cape's School of Public Health workshop (Emerging models in Public Health education) , 20 May 2015
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Making use of MOOCs
Janet Small, Andrew Deacon, & Sukaina Walji
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town. UCT 2015/6 Teaching & Learning Conference workshop
University of Cape Town 30 March 2016
Learning through engagement: MOOCs as an emergent form of provision. Presentation at ICDE World Conference, Sun City, South Africa, October 2015. Sukaina Walji, Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Janet Small
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within t...Leigh-Anne Perryman
Collaborating across borders: OER use and open educational practices within the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
Paper presented by Leigh-Anne Perryman and John Lesperance at OE Global 2015, Banff, Canada.
Considering MOOC Learner Experiences: An insider's perspective. Presented by Ed Campbell, Learning Designer at the Learning LandsCAPE conference
May 2016
OER Workshop for Coastline College Summer InstituteUna Daly
The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Professional Development Programme on OER-based e-learningPat Toh
Open Educational Resources have emerged as one of the most innovative teaching and learning tools as well as a cost-effective mechanism to improve the quality of educational offerings by optimising the use of available resources. While OER can be used by any student to learn on his/her own, universities (especially Open Universities) that depend on printed distance learning materials can now use the OERs to offer their courses and programmes and thereby reduce the development time of courses and programmes, and also reduce the cost of launching new programmes. However, not many institutions are in a position to actually develop OERs that can be used effectively for teaching and learning in the digital environment.
The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), realising the need for professional development of teachers, has developed this professional development programme on OER-based eLearning to promote the use of OER in educational institutions.
The programme has been developed as part of the institutional capacity building for OER-based eLearning at Wawasan Open University (WOU), Penang. Faculty members of WOU and several other institutions in Asia have contributed to the development of the contents. The modules are learning outcomes of the participants in three workshops supported by CEMCA.
OECx: Building Openly Licensed MOOCs to Enhance Re-use, Interactivity, and Le...Una Daly
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) launched a pilot in 2014 to demonstrate the power of re-using openly licensed course content to develop Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and revitalize and update existing OER/OCW in the process. Converting existing OCW into MOOCs offers OEC member institutions opportunities to gather information about how learners interact with the content and offers learners greater opportunities for interactivity with instructors, peers, and the content. Partnering with edX, OEC has offered member institutions the opportunity to develop MOOCs on a leading technology platform that provides different options for how learners engage in a course. Learners may choose to audit a course or sign-up for a verified certificate for a modest fee that can be used for academic or career enrichment.
Using their existing open courseware and open educational resources (OER), members have launched MOOCs that offer high-quality learning experiences with the option of a verified (fee-based) certificate available to learners throughout the world. Participating members in the pilot include the National Chiao Tung University, Tufts University, University Polytechnic of Madrid, Open University’s TESS India project, Anne Arundel Community College, and the University of Hokkaido. The courses range from the technology of energy, biology of water and health, introduction to helicopters, corporate social responsibility, teacher education, introduction to business, and the effects of radiation.
Panelist from the MOOC development team at Open University, University Polytechnic of Madrid, and University of Hokkaido will share best practices for developing and running openly licensed MOOCs. Lesson learned about developing MOOCs with OER and strategies for enhancing student engagement and interactivity will be shared.
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. We seek to instill openness as a feature of education around the world, allowing greatly expanded access to education while providing a shared body of knowledge upon which innovative and effective approaches to today’s social problems can be built.
EdX, a not-for-profit enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, was created for students and institutions that seek to transform themselves through cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy, and rigorous courses. Through our institutional partners, the xConsortium, along with other leading global members, we present the best of higher education online, offering opportunity to anyone who wants to achieve, thrive, and grow.
Open Education Week: Community College OER Innovation PanelUna Daly
Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013
From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college.
Website: http://oerconsortium.org
How to participate
Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC
Webinar language: English
PRIOR TO THE MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness
Use the following link to login to the webinar: http://www.cccconfer.org/MyConfer/GoToMeetingAnonymousely.aspx?MeetingSeriesID=7f5ae919-67a1-4e98-8cf7-861fc0692b93
When prompted, please enter first and last name, email address, and screen name and click on the Connect button to proceed to webinar.
Speakers
Una Daly
MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Dr. Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona
Quill West
OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington
About the Webinar
The development and rising popularity of the massive open online course (MOOC) presents a new opportunity for libraries to be involved in the education of patrons, to highlight the resources libraries provide and to further demonstrate the value of the library to administrators. There are, of course, a host of logistics to be considered when deciding to organize or support a MOOC. Diminished library budgets and staffing levels challenge libraries both monetarily and administratively. Marketing the course, mounting it on a site, securing copyright permissions and negotiating licensing for course materials, managing the course while in progress and troubleshooting technical problems add to the issues that have caused some libraries to hesitate in joining the MOOC movement. On the other hand, partnerships such as that between Georgetown University and edX, itself an initiative of Harvard and MIT, allow a pooling of resources thereby easing the burden on any one library. In some cases price breaks for certain course materials used in MOOCs can help draw students to the course, though the pricing must still be negotiated by the course organizer. A successful MOOC, such as the RootsMOOC, created by the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University and the State Library of North Carolina, can bring awareness of library resources to a broad audience.
In the end, libraries must ask whether the advantages of participating in a MOOC outweigh the challenges. The speakers for this webinar will consider these issues surrounding MOOCs and libraries and try to answer the question of whether the impact of libraries on MOOCs has been realized or is still brewing.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
MOOCS: Assessing the Landscape and Trends of Open Online Learning
Heather Ruland Staines, Director Publisher and Content Strategy, ProQuest SIPX
The RootsMOOC Project or: that time we threw a genealogy party and 4,000 people showed up
Kyle Denlinger, eLearning Librarian, Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Rebecca Hyman, Reference and Outreach Librarian, Government and Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina
MOOCS and Me: Georgetown's Experience with MOOC Production
Barrinton Baynes, Multimedia Projects Manager, Gelardin New Media Center, Georgetown University Library
MOOCs for Opening Up Education
The role of Quality and Openness
Used at Masterclass MESI - 24 September 2014
Some slides used at ICDE-MESI Conference – panel 27 September 2014
This presentation was given at the OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Meeting in May, 2011. It describes some of the results from an evaluation project initiated by Open.Michigan in September 2010. Full results can be found at tinyurl.com/omevaluation.
Presentation by MOOC Task Team at Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town to inform discussion of MOOCs in the UCT Course provision landscape.
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.
Presentation with statements of important aspects and dimensions of MOOC research, as presented during Internal MOOC Confertence, Capri (http://www.di-arezzo.fr/partition/partition+classique/p%C3%A9dagogie+instrumentale/partition-pour-fl%C3%BBte+traversi%C3%A8re/Louis+Drouet/25+Etudes+C%C3%A9l%C3%A8bres/LEDUC00445.html )
Including example of report of macro level Institutional MOOC strategies in Europe ( http://www.eadtu.eu/documents/Publications/OEenM/Institutional_MOOC_strategies_in_Europe.pdf )
OER and Accessibility with Open BCcampus and CU PhET SimulationsUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for aenabld car license free and open webinar on selecting and creating open educational resources that support all learners regardless of disabilities. The mission of the Open Education community is to expand access to education, which highlights the importance of ensuring that OER used in the classroom follow guidelines for accessibility as well as affordability.
Speakers will share their experiences in adapting open textbooks and interactive science simulations to meet the needs of diverse learners. Important standards including the international Web Content Access Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) from the Worldwide Web Consortium will be introduced and the role they play in developing accessible digital content.
Date: Wed, October 14, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
Amanda Coolidge, Open Education Manager, Open BCcampus
Will describe the process of user testing open textbooks with post-secondary students who have print disabilities focusing on lessons learned in this process and how this data fed into the creation of a toolkit on accessibility for open textbook authors.
Emily Moore, Director of Research & Accessibility, PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder
Will share ways that PhET SIMs teachers currently use to support diverse learners and give an update on the main accessibility efforts in the prototype and development phase. She will also demonstrate a few of the new accessibility features that teachers can look forward to in the future.
Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot Robert Farrow
This presentation reports results of a recent open education research collaboration between The African Council for Distance Education and The Open University (UK). Pathways to Learning: new approaches in higher education (OpenLearn, 2020a) hosted two free professional development programmes for university lecturers, instructional designers, professional staff, and managers who share responsibility for providing quality distance and online learning.
• A Teacher Educator programme, Skills for 21st Century Learning and Teaching (OpenLearn, 2020b)
• A Tertiary Educator programme, Take Your Teaching Online (OpenLearn, 2020c)
The courses ran over six weeks between 13th July and 20th August, 2020, and was contextualized by a rapid rollout of online learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. The programmes combined a course of study using OER materials with supplementary activities including a total of 12 webinars and interactive events alongside use of new platforms created by The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology: nQuire (Herodotou et al., 2018) and Our Journey (Coughlan et al., 2019).
Key findings:
• The pandemic led to a substantial shift in teaching across Africa and a requirement to better understand and gain experience of online learning. Change is likely to persist post-pandemic, although infrastructure and cultural barriers are reported.
• The project surveys, interviews and the data generated through interactions that occurred in the programmes explores challenges and opportunities for online and blended learning across the African continent and globally.
• The evaluation data provides evidence that the programmes led to important understanding of course design and confidence in online facilitation for a large majority of those who took part in them.
• There is evidence that the programmes built confidence, particularly through the experiences of these educators themselves learning online with well-designed materials, and engaging with platforms and experts.
• There is evidence that each of the elements and activities were appreciated by some learners. The open courses were seen as most useful alongside some webinars. Community events and forums added substantial value to these.
• The flexibility offered in the programmes led to different behaviours. Many aimed to complete all the available activities despite time pressures and other barriers. Some were unable to attend live events so recordings were appreciated.
• Given the courses were free to join and many educators faced barriers and pressures, retention figures were very positive with around 66% of those who took part in the first week completing the rest of these programmes.
• Assessment, Open Educational Resources (OER), and understanding of technologies that can be used for online learning and learning design were areas that learners reported as being particularly valuable.
openSE – open educational framework for computer science Software EngineeringAndreas Meiszner
The openSE project brings together higher education institutions, open source projects and enterprises from different countries, from Europe and beyond, to collaboratively build up a common learning ecosystem.
The openSE framework is an open approach to computer science Software Engineering and aims at the continuous provision of up to date and relevant learning materials and opportunities that match students' interests and employers' demand; providing firms with better educated employees and allow learners to acquire an enhanced set of skills than traditional educational provision does. The openSE framework will be open to any type of learner: students of partnering universities, learners from the enterprise field, or 'free learners' outside of any type of formal educational context.
ICDE Policy Forum in partnership with UNESCO: Directions and challenges for g...icdeslides
The annual ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) meeting included the ICDE Policy Forum, co-organized with UNESCO. On the theme of "Directions and challenges for government and institutions when post-secondary education moves into the MOOC territory: public policies and institutional strategies in the digital learning age", the Policy Forum included organizations and key stakeholders including UNESCO, OECD, the European Commission, Open Courseware Consortium and International Association of Universities.
Sustaining OER innovation through collaboration and partnership Simon Thomson (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Andy Beggan (University of Nottingham) Facilitated by Peter Bullen.
EMMA Summer School - Rebecca Ferguson - Learning design and learning analytic...EUmoocs
This hands-on workshop will work with learning design tools and with massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the FutureLearn platform to explore how learning design can be used to influence the choice and design of learning analytics. This workshop will be of interest to people who are involved in the design or presentation of online courses, and to those who want to find out more about learning design, learning analytics or MOOCs. Participants will find it helpful to have registered for FutureLearn and explored the platform for a short time in advance of the workshop.
This presentation was given during the EMMA Summer School, that took place in Ischia (Italy) on 4-11 July 2015.
More info on the website: http://project.europeanmoocs.eu/project/get-involved/summer-school/
Follow our MOOCs: http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu/MOOCs
Design and deliver your MOOC with EMMA: http://project.europeanmoocs.eu/project/get-involved/become-an-emma-mooc-provider/
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.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
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.
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.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter 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.
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Welcome to the quarterly membership meeting
Tuesday 22 September 2015
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
2. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
3. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
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11. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
14. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
15.
16. To participate in the planning group, send an email to
info@openeducationweek.org
17. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
18. Open Education Awards
• Individual Awards, Site & Course Awards, Project
Awards
• Announced at Open Education Global 2016
• Nominate at
http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/open-
education-awards-for-excellence/
19. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
20. Membership Survey
• Purpose : To better understand member needs and plan
Consortium activities around the specified needs
• Sent out to member institutions & organizations
• 40 respondents
21. On Using OER
• Do faculty at your institution currently use (or are encouraged
to use) OER within their daily teaching and learning
practices?
Yes
No
Yes 22 (55%)
No 18 (45%)
22. • Do faculty at your institution currently develop new OER (or
are encouraged to develop) collaboratively with other
academics or institutions?
Yes
No
Yes 23 (58%)
No 17 (43%)
23. If yes, please describe.
• Add OER as a part of course reading materials or assignments.
• All of our content is OER
• Faculty use MOOCs and OCW in their teaching
• Some faculty use their OCW courses as an alternative to publishing
their materials on the university LMS.
• OERs are built into courses by faculty subject-matter experts as
learning resources.
• It's part of course requirement to confirm that they’ve considered
OER.
• They translate some part of articles in foreign languages in language
classes).
24. On Institutional Policies
• Does your institution have policies related to open education?
Yes
No
Yes 25 (63%)
No 15 (38%)
25. • If yes, which areas does the policy cover?
0 5 10 15 20
faculty support for OER
creation
adoption of OER, such as
open textbooks
open licensing in
institutional repositories
open access
open data
* Response shows multiple answers from each respondent
26. On MOOCs
• Do you consider MOOCs as open education initiatives?
Yes
No
Yes 34 (85%)No 6 (15%)
27. Yes
No
• Does your institution offer one or more MOOCs?
Yes 21 (53%)
No 19 (47%)
28. • If yes, what platform are you using?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
FutureLearn
edX
Coursera
Canvas
Moodle
OECx
Open Assembly
Miriada X
Own platform
29. Yes
No
• If no, does your institution plan to start a MOOC in the coming 12
months?
Yes 8 (42%)
No 11 (58%)
30. Any Comments on MOOCs?
• Difficulty in joining well-known platforms
• Not ready to tackle sustainability challenge with MOOCs
• MOOCs will be one of the lasting innovations in OE and online
pedagogy in the future. It helps university to benchmark its quality of
services with the prominent university globally.
• MOOCs will serve as important tool for virtual student mobility.
• Encouraging all MOOCs use Open licenses will broaden use of
OERs across cultures
• Not sure if the MOOC is a long-term solution at this time. Concerned
about the hype on MOOCs.
• MOOCs have come to stay, but there is no sustainable business or
operational model yet.
31. In 2014, the Open Education Consortium ran an “Open MOOC” pilot
project that allowed OEC members to offer openly licensed MOOCs
on the edX platform under the OECx shingle. An OECx course must
be based on existing OERs. If OECx continues to offer the
opportunity, would your institution be interested running an open
MOOC as a part of OECx?
19 said Yes
16 said No
32. If you were to offer an open MOOC with OECx, what kind of
assistance would you need?
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Using the edX platform
Best practices
Course Evaluation
Overall MOOC
Developing MOOC strategy
Preparing materials
Promotion
Data analytics
33. On Open Education Week 2015
• Did you participate in the 2015 Open Education Week?
Yes
No
Yes 26 (65%)No 14 (35%)
34. If yes, please list the activities you offered
•A series of seminars - one each day.
•Webinar tour of site/open education project
•24-hr Twitter event
•A colloquium & several short presentations
•Participation at a conference related to open education
•Launching a MOOC
•Host a competition on OCW user experiences and
artworks for 2015.
35. Did you use materials from the website to promote open
education week or your event (web banners, posters, slide
template, etc)
15 said yes
36. What suggestions do you have to make Open Education Week
more effective?
- Get more people to participate
- Host a contest (maybe regional)
- Enable submission & list events on the website early on
- Organizing events by region would be more effective
- Make all presentations downloadable (at once)
- More use of social media and blogging
- Showcase newcomers (inspirational cases)
37. Yes
No
On Quarterly Membership Meeting
• Have you participated in an OEC online/quarterly membership
meeting?
Yes 22 (55%)
No 18 (45%)
38. If yes, what did you like and/or dislike about the meeting?
Likes:
- It’s good to know current projects of the Consortium
- Updates on what members are doing
39. On OE Consortium Newsletter
• Do you receive the OEC newsletter?
Yes 26
No 10
Yes 28 (70%)
No 12 (30%)
40. On Professional Directory
Are you listed in the Open Education Professional Directory?
Yes
No
No 15 (42%)
Yes 21 (58%)
41. On Information Center
What kind of information would you like to see in the Open
Education Information Center?
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
FAQ
Case studies
Central location for tools and apps
Info on starting an open education
Presentation templates
Community news
Forum
Links to slides and presentations
42. On Consortium Activities
Please indicate if you are interested in participating in any of
the following initiatives and activities (check all that apply)
0 5 10 15 20
Open Education for lifelong
learning
Improving discoverability of
resources
Marketing and messaging on
the value of openness and…
Open Education Global
conference program…
Outreach to businesses and
corporations
Open Education Week
planning group
43. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
50. OECx MOOC Project
•Transform Open Courseware into Massive Open Online
Courses (openly licensed) to increase access and reduce
costs.
•Verified certificates available thru edX platform.
•Research Questions
–How can re-using OCW make MOOC development
more cost effective?
–How can re-using OCW increase collaboration
opportunities?
51. Pilot Year Courses
•9 MOOCs from universities in Taiwan, U.S., Spain,
UK/India, Japan and one U.S. college
•Average Enrollment: 3250 students
–21st Century Energy
–Water and Health
–Helicopters
–Business
–Teacher Education in India
–Corporate Social Responsibility
–Effects of Radiation
52. OECx Support Tiers
•New OECx developer
–Up to 60 hours of support (6-9 months)
–Instructional Design Review
–Some Platform Support
•New MOOC by current OECx developer
–Up to 30 hours of support (3-6 months)
–Instructional Design Review
–Limited Platform Support
•Rerun an existing OECx MOOC
–10-15 hours of technical support (3-4 months)
–10% or less modifications to original MOOC
Contact unatdaly@oeconsortium.org for details
53. Agenda
1. OCW Scholar - Joseph Pickett & Sarah Hansen, MIT
2. Call for Proposals, Open Education Global Conference
3. Open Education Week 2016
4. Open Education Awards for Excellence Nomination
5. Results, Membership Survey
6. Open Education Information Center
7. OECx MOOC Project
8. Questions, comments, discussion items from members
The meeting will last approx 1 hour. We encourage you to ask questions
and participate in discussions using the microphone and/or chat window
Full agenda available here: http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-
oec/membership/quarterly-membership-meetings/
54. Thank you!
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