This presentation was made together with collegue, Louise Vakamocea at the EDULINK-SIDECAP Project Final Dissemination Event held at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands in February 2010.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a relatively recent online learning phenomenon that has developed in the last five years. The opportunity that MOOCs offer to developing countries has generated significant interest from higher education as it has opened doors to step into territories that were never available before this era. This paper reports on the research findings of the impact of MOOCs in developing countries. The key challenges and opportunities identified by the researchers in using the MOOC concept within the Sri Lankan higher education context is discussed. It also highlights how developing countries can transform education, and provide lifelong learning opportunities which will give access to learning resources, innovative learning technologies, higher engagement and collaborative learning opportunities with international experts.
The Australian Professional Standard for Principals MATSITI
The document discusses the Australian Professional Standard for Principals established by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). AITSL's mission is to promote excellence in teaching and school leadership for the benefit of Australian students. The Professional Standard for Principals defines the key leadership requirements of principals under five domains: vision and values, knowledge and understanding, personal qualities and relationships, professional practice, and engagement and achievement. It provides a common language for leadership and guides principals' professional learning and development.
Early College Academy is Greeley's newest high school. This powerpoint presentation was given to parents and potential students as part of a promotional campaign.
Open Education Research : Overview, Benefits and Challenges Robert Farrow
Open education research has grown since 2012 through projects led by the OER Research Hub exploring topics like student performance, access, and educator practice. The hub conducts global surveys, publishes reports, and builds research capacity through networks. Current projects examine business models for open education and how teachers reuse OER through online courses. The presentation reviews the hub's work and encourages collaboration to further open scholarship.
‘Ask the Audience: Identifying what library services are important to the res...CONUL Conference
The document discusses identifying important library services for the research community at Dublin City University (DCU) through a faculty survey. Key findings include:
- 76% of respondents had contact with a librarian in the last 6 months.
- 86% felt having a designated library contact was important.
- Research workshops, online information literacy instruction, and one-to-one research consultations were highly valued across faculties.
- The top 3 most important services varied by faculty, such as designated contacts, collection development, and in-class instruction.
This presentation formed part of the HEA-funded workshop 'Research methods for teacher education'.
This event brought together academic experts in educational research methods with school leaders, to debate, share and determine how student teachers and teachers on part-time Masters-level programmes can best be taught to use research methods to better understand and ultimately, improve the quality of their teaching and improve educational outcomes for pupils and schools.
This presentation forms part of a blog post which can be accessed via: http://bit.ly/1m8vkEW
For further details of HEA Social Sciences work relating to teaching research methods in the Social Sciences please see http://bit.ly/15go0mh
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a relatively recent online learning phenomenon that has developed in the last five years. The opportunity that MOOCs offer to developing countries has generated significant interest from higher education as it has opened doors to step into territories that were never available before this era. This paper reports on the research findings of the impact of MOOCs in developing countries. The key challenges and opportunities identified by the researchers in using the MOOC concept within the Sri Lankan higher education context is discussed. It also highlights how developing countries can transform education, and provide lifelong learning opportunities which will give access to learning resources, innovative learning technologies, higher engagement and collaborative learning opportunities with international experts.
The Australian Professional Standard for Principals MATSITI
The document discusses the Australian Professional Standard for Principals established by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). AITSL's mission is to promote excellence in teaching and school leadership for the benefit of Australian students. The Professional Standard for Principals defines the key leadership requirements of principals under five domains: vision and values, knowledge and understanding, personal qualities and relationships, professional practice, and engagement and achievement. It provides a common language for leadership and guides principals' professional learning and development.
Early College Academy is Greeley's newest high school. This powerpoint presentation was given to parents and potential students as part of a promotional campaign.
Open Education Research : Overview, Benefits and Challenges Robert Farrow
Open education research has grown since 2012 through projects led by the OER Research Hub exploring topics like student performance, access, and educator practice. The hub conducts global surveys, publishes reports, and builds research capacity through networks. Current projects examine business models for open education and how teachers reuse OER through online courses. The presentation reviews the hub's work and encourages collaboration to further open scholarship.
‘Ask the Audience: Identifying what library services are important to the res...CONUL Conference
The document discusses identifying important library services for the research community at Dublin City University (DCU) through a faculty survey. Key findings include:
- 76% of respondents had contact with a librarian in the last 6 months.
- 86% felt having a designated library contact was important.
- Research workshops, online information literacy instruction, and one-to-one research consultations were highly valued across faculties.
- The top 3 most important services varied by faculty, such as designated contacts, collection development, and in-class instruction.
This presentation formed part of the HEA-funded workshop 'Research methods for teacher education'.
This event brought together academic experts in educational research methods with school leaders, to debate, share and determine how student teachers and teachers on part-time Masters-level programmes can best be taught to use research methods to better understand and ultimately, improve the quality of their teaching and improve educational outcomes for pupils and schools.
This presentation forms part of a blog post which can be accessed via: http://bit.ly/1m8vkEW
For further details of HEA Social Sciences work relating to teaching research methods in the Social Sciences please see http://bit.ly/15go0mh
This document provides demographic information about University of Salford students and summarizes student surveys about their satisfaction with the university and students' union. It finds that most students are from Greater Manchester, satisfaction with teaching and assessment is lower than the UK average, and retention rates are also lower than average. Students are generally confident in and positive about the students' union. The top issues students care about are assessment feedback, careers advice, fees, and library/IT resources. Understanding student demographics and priorities is important for candidates in students' union elections to know what issues to focus on.
ASLA XXIII Biennial Conference - Pru Mitchell & Anne Girolami - As the Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL) are implemented, teacher librarians ask where they fit in this framework. In this workshop, members of a cross-association working party will provide an overview of the standards and recommendations for their use in the school library context. Participants will be encouraged to contribute strategies for collecting and presenting evidence relevant to their context.
This document discusses flexible developments in education. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of flexibility, promote existing flexible initiatives, and progress flexible developments. Flexible learning can take many forms, including open educational resources, prior learning assessments, seamless learning experiences, and feedback to guide students. The document advocates developing flexibility in curriculum, learning approaches, and assessment. It asks institutions to consider their current flexible offerings and how flexibility can be further progressed to meet the needs of 21st century learners.
This document discusses the OERu (Open Educational Resources university) and its plan to crowdsource solutions for sustainable global education using open educational resources (OER). It introduces several leaders in the OERu movement, including Phil Ker from Otago Polytechnic, Mark Nichols from Open Polytechnic, Irwin DeVries from Thompson Rivers University, and Rory McGreal from Athabasca University. It addresses challenges with developing open courseware at scale, including development costs, quality assurance, customization, and intellectual property issues. Examples are provided of OER course development from Thompson Rivers University and how credit can be provided for open courses.
Sacred Heart University - Open Educational Resources Faculty Survey ResultsdigitallearningSHU
This document summarizes the results of a faculty survey conducted by Sacred Heart University's OER Coordination Team in Spring 2017 regarding faculty use of open educational resources and other course materials. The main findings were:
- Most faculty currently use copyrighted printed textbooks (88.7%) and digital textbooks (55.1%) for required materials.
- Faculty expressed interest in workshops on OER best practices and library support for finding OER materials.
- When selecting materials, factors like cost, ease of student access, and alignment with learning outcomes were reported as very important.
- Some faculty currently use open resources like websites, videos and articles but others noted a lack of available OER in their fields
This document outlines several models that universities have used to roll out the TESTA (Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment) approach.
The models include student-led implementations at Greenwich University and PhD-led implementations at Brunel University. Academic-led implementations occurred at the University of Nottingham while Sheffield Hallam University utilized a consultancy model. The University of Winchester uses a periodic review approach. Other models discussed include using graduate interns and a "TESTA-lite" approach. The document prompts discussion on advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and questions how the TESTA approach could be systematically implemented at the University of Westminster.
An OER-based degree, sometimes referred to as a Zero-Textbook-Cost degree, is a pathway to a degree or credential with no textbook costs because all the courses have been redesigned to use open educational resources (OER) for instructional materials. These pathways are gaining traction particularly at community colleges where students savings are estimated at up to 25 % of the cost of attendance. Early research shows students enrolled in these pathway courses are performing as well or better than students in traditional courses.
In June, the national community college reform network Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced the largest initiative of its kind to develop degree programs using high quality open educational resources (OER). Involving 38 community colleges in 13 states, it is designed to help remove financial roadblocks that can derail students’ progress and to spur other changes in teaching and learning and course design that will increase the likelihood of degree and certificate completion.
Join us for an interactive webinar to hear about early considerations such as fostering faculty engagement and planning tools successfully utilised by participants of the ATD OER Degree program. Find out more about how your college’s OER efforts can benefit from the findings and resources being developed by this program.
When: Wednesday, October 19, 10amPST/1pmEST Featured Speakers:
Richard Sebastian, Director of OER Degrees, Achieving the Dream (ATD)
Jennifer Nohai-Seaman, Assistant Professor Mathematics, Housatonic Community College, CT
Wm Preston Davis, Director of Instruction, Extended Learning Institute, Northern Virginia Community College
Quill West, OER Project Manager, Pierce College District, WA
Learning analytics support for just-in-time teachingraquelm_crespo
The document discusses using learning analytics to support just-in-time teaching through a system called classON. classON provides personalized monitoring of students, awareness of student progress and questions for teachers, and analytics to help teachers more efficiently answer questions and ensure student understanding. An experiment found that classON helped reduce waiting times for student questions to be answered and increased the number of questions solved compared to traditional teaching methods without analytics support. The results validated that classON fulfilled requirements to help both teachers and students make the most of learning sessions with limited resources.
The document outlines a lesson plan on teaching students the Big6 research model. It includes objectives to identify the 6 steps of the model and apply them to future projects. Students will take a pre-assessment, watch explanatory videos, and receive a handout with the graphic representation of the 6 steps and additional resources to help them learn and apply the Big6 research strategy.
The document summarizes key international studies that the Scottish government participates in to assess education performance, including PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS. It outlines what each study measures (e.g. attainment, attitudes), when they take place, who participates, and what insights they provide (e.g. impact of socioeconomic factors). The studies also examine aspects of curriculum, instructional time, and assessment practices across countries.
This document outlines several models that universities have used to roll out the Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment (TESTA) program.
The models include student-led approaches at Greenwich University and PhD-led at Brunel University. An academic-led model was used at the University of Nottingham involving departments conducting their own research. Sheffield Hallam Sports Department utilized consultants in a two-day workshop model. The University of Winchester uses a periodic review approach across multiple programs. A graduate intern model was tested with interns paired on programs. Simplified "TESTA-lite" workshops focused on assessment and feedback principles were also discussed. The document prompts discussion on which approach might work best for the School of Hospitality Management
1st meeting CoP embedding research - UWALucia Ravi
The document discusses establishing a community of practice (CoP) to embed research skills in curriculum design across units and courses at the University of Western Australia (UWA). It recommends auditing current opportunities for coursework students to engage with researchers and enhancing the teaching of research skills in all undergraduate majors and postgraduate coursework courses. The first meeting of the CoP will focus on introductions, discussing questions and issues in a world cafe format, and planning next steps including using Slack for communication and setting future meeting dates.
The document discusses how schools can prepare students for success in higher education. It notes that schools are responsible for not just getting students into university, but ensuring they are equipped to succeed once there. It then lists the key skills and abilities universities look for, such as content knowledge, independent learning, and higher-order thinking. The rest of the document outlines how schools can develop these skills through flexible curriculums, experiential learning, aligned pedagogy and assessment, and connections to universities and industry. It emphasizes the importance of assessment practices that encourage deep learning over memorization and the application of knowledge.
This document discusses strategies for developing a culture of assessment at the institution-wide level. It outlines challenges faced and 15 elements of successful assessment programs. The author then details Longwood University's strategies, including faculty ownership of assessment, comprehensive program review, ongoing professional development, information sharing, celebrating successes, and continuous improvement. Other strategies are discussed for meeting challenges and further fostering an assessment culture.
Using Collaborative Tools to Support Large Scale Multi-disciplinary Work navhundal
Using online collaborative tools, 480 students from different disciplines were assigned to multidisciplinary teams to consider the health impacts and care delivery in Sheffield over 12 weeks. Each of the 48 student teams had an online workspace on Google Sites and a dedicated facilitator for support. While students liked meeting other disciplines and teamwork, the module was found to be too long and some resources like video and blogs were underutilized. Future iterations will be shortened to 6 weeks, include more face-to-face time, and focus on developing healthcare interventions.
This document discusses blended learning evaluation strategies from the Flexible Learning Institute at Charles Sturt University. It outlines several programs the Institute offers, including a teaching fellowship scheme involving all university schools, course/degree symposium grants to support blended learning strategy, and an activity focusing on designing evaluation strategies for a project. The evaluation strategies are meant to measure impact on learners, teachers, disciplines, schools/faculties, and the overall organization.
This document summarizes chapters 5 and the conclusion from the book "Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers" by Villegas & Lucas. Chapter 5 discusses the institutional commitments needed from colleges and universities to educate culturally responsive teachers, including increasing diversity among students and faculty, collaborating between education departments and other disciplines, and investing in faculty development. The conclusion asks the reader to draw their own conclusion.
This document summarizes student performance and demographic data from the 2011-2012 AEIS report for Worley Middle School. It shows that in 2011-2012, the majority of Worley students passed the 7th and 8th grade reading, math, writing and science tests, though social studies passage rates were lower. Worley's performance ranked in the top three of six area middle schools for most subjects tested. The report also provides data on student attendance rates, demographics, class sizes, staff demographics, and campus financial expenditures.
Seizing the Agenda | Developing effective collaboration in locality areasWholeeducation
The document discusses a school partnership program between three secondary schools in Peterborough, England. It describes how Orton Longueville School, which was underperforming, was taken over by CMAT in 2009 and saw improved exam results from 44% in 2011 to 60% in 2013. A key factor in their success was collaborating with the other schools through a partnership which involved sharing resources, lesson observations, exam support and middle leader training. This pilot program demonstrated the benefits of school partnerships and helped spread collaboration to other schools in the region.
Blessing or Curse? OER Accessibility: The University of the South Pacific Exp...Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
This presentation was made at the AAOU Conference 2014 at the Open University Hong Kong on 29th October. It is a presentation based on a paper co-written by Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki and Neelam Narayan of the Centre for Flexible Learning, USP, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands.
This presentation was made in 2011 in an Instructional Designers meeting held on Friday 20th May at the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL), University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands
This document provides demographic information about University of Salford students and summarizes student surveys about their satisfaction with the university and students' union. It finds that most students are from Greater Manchester, satisfaction with teaching and assessment is lower than the UK average, and retention rates are also lower than average. Students are generally confident in and positive about the students' union. The top issues students care about are assessment feedback, careers advice, fees, and library/IT resources. Understanding student demographics and priorities is important for candidates in students' union elections to know what issues to focus on.
ASLA XXIII Biennial Conference - Pru Mitchell & Anne Girolami - As the Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL) are implemented, teacher librarians ask where they fit in this framework. In this workshop, members of a cross-association working party will provide an overview of the standards and recommendations for their use in the school library context. Participants will be encouraged to contribute strategies for collecting and presenting evidence relevant to their context.
This document discusses flexible developments in education. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of flexibility, promote existing flexible initiatives, and progress flexible developments. Flexible learning can take many forms, including open educational resources, prior learning assessments, seamless learning experiences, and feedback to guide students. The document advocates developing flexibility in curriculum, learning approaches, and assessment. It asks institutions to consider their current flexible offerings and how flexibility can be further progressed to meet the needs of 21st century learners.
This document discusses the OERu (Open Educational Resources university) and its plan to crowdsource solutions for sustainable global education using open educational resources (OER). It introduces several leaders in the OERu movement, including Phil Ker from Otago Polytechnic, Mark Nichols from Open Polytechnic, Irwin DeVries from Thompson Rivers University, and Rory McGreal from Athabasca University. It addresses challenges with developing open courseware at scale, including development costs, quality assurance, customization, and intellectual property issues. Examples are provided of OER course development from Thompson Rivers University and how credit can be provided for open courses.
Sacred Heart University - Open Educational Resources Faculty Survey ResultsdigitallearningSHU
This document summarizes the results of a faculty survey conducted by Sacred Heart University's OER Coordination Team in Spring 2017 regarding faculty use of open educational resources and other course materials. The main findings were:
- Most faculty currently use copyrighted printed textbooks (88.7%) and digital textbooks (55.1%) for required materials.
- Faculty expressed interest in workshops on OER best practices and library support for finding OER materials.
- When selecting materials, factors like cost, ease of student access, and alignment with learning outcomes were reported as very important.
- Some faculty currently use open resources like websites, videos and articles but others noted a lack of available OER in their fields
This document outlines several models that universities have used to roll out the TESTA (Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment) approach.
The models include student-led implementations at Greenwich University and PhD-led implementations at Brunel University. Academic-led implementations occurred at the University of Nottingham while Sheffield Hallam University utilized a consultancy model. The University of Winchester uses a periodic review approach. Other models discussed include using graduate interns and a "TESTA-lite" approach. The document prompts discussion on advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and questions how the TESTA approach could be systematically implemented at the University of Westminster.
An OER-based degree, sometimes referred to as a Zero-Textbook-Cost degree, is a pathway to a degree or credential with no textbook costs because all the courses have been redesigned to use open educational resources (OER) for instructional materials. These pathways are gaining traction particularly at community colleges where students savings are estimated at up to 25 % of the cost of attendance. Early research shows students enrolled in these pathway courses are performing as well or better than students in traditional courses.
In June, the national community college reform network Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced the largest initiative of its kind to develop degree programs using high quality open educational resources (OER). Involving 38 community colleges in 13 states, it is designed to help remove financial roadblocks that can derail students’ progress and to spur other changes in teaching and learning and course design that will increase the likelihood of degree and certificate completion.
Join us for an interactive webinar to hear about early considerations such as fostering faculty engagement and planning tools successfully utilised by participants of the ATD OER Degree program. Find out more about how your college’s OER efforts can benefit from the findings and resources being developed by this program.
When: Wednesday, October 19, 10amPST/1pmEST Featured Speakers:
Richard Sebastian, Director of OER Degrees, Achieving the Dream (ATD)
Jennifer Nohai-Seaman, Assistant Professor Mathematics, Housatonic Community College, CT
Wm Preston Davis, Director of Instruction, Extended Learning Institute, Northern Virginia Community College
Quill West, OER Project Manager, Pierce College District, WA
Learning analytics support for just-in-time teachingraquelm_crespo
The document discusses using learning analytics to support just-in-time teaching through a system called classON. classON provides personalized monitoring of students, awareness of student progress and questions for teachers, and analytics to help teachers more efficiently answer questions and ensure student understanding. An experiment found that classON helped reduce waiting times for student questions to be answered and increased the number of questions solved compared to traditional teaching methods without analytics support. The results validated that classON fulfilled requirements to help both teachers and students make the most of learning sessions with limited resources.
The document outlines a lesson plan on teaching students the Big6 research model. It includes objectives to identify the 6 steps of the model and apply them to future projects. Students will take a pre-assessment, watch explanatory videos, and receive a handout with the graphic representation of the 6 steps and additional resources to help them learn and apply the Big6 research strategy.
The document summarizes key international studies that the Scottish government participates in to assess education performance, including PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS. It outlines what each study measures (e.g. attainment, attitudes), when they take place, who participates, and what insights they provide (e.g. impact of socioeconomic factors). The studies also examine aspects of curriculum, instructional time, and assessment practices across countries.
This document outlines several models that universities have used to roll out the Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment (TESTA) program.
The models include student-led approaches at Greenwich University and PhD-led at Brunel University. An academic-led model was used at the University of Nottingham involving departments conducting their own research. Sheffield Hallam Sports Department utilized consultants in a two-day workshop model. The University of Winchester uses a periodic review approach across multiple programs. A graduate intern model was tested with interns paired on programs. Simplified "TESTA-lite" workshops focused on assessment and feedback principles were also discussed. The document prompts discussion on which approach might work best for the School of Hospitality Management
1st meeting CoP embedding research - UWALucia Ravi
The document discusses establishing a community of practice (CoP) to embed research skills in curriculum design across units and courses at the University of Western Australia (UWA). It recommends auditing current opportunities for coursework students to engage with researchers and enhancing the teaching of research skills in all undergraduate majors and postgraduate coursework courses. The first meeting of the CoP will focus on introductions, discussing questions and issues in a world cafe format, and planning next steps including using Slack for communication and setting future meeting dates.
The document discusses how schools can prepare students for success in higher education. It notes that schools are responsible for not just getting students into university, but ensuring they are equipped to succeed once there. It then lists the key skills and abilities universities look for, such as content knowledge, independent learning, and higher-order thinking. The rest of the document outlines how schools can develop these skills through flexible curriculums, experiential learning, aligned pedagogy and assessment, and connections to universities and industry. It emphasizes the importance of assessment practices that encourage deep learning over memorization and the application of knowledge.
This document discusses strategies for developing a culture of assessment at the institution-wide level. It outlines challenges faced and 15 elements of successful assessment programs. The author then details Longwood University's strategies, including faculty ownership of assessment, comprehensive program review, ongoing professional development, information sharing, celebrating successes, and continuous improvement. Other strategies are discussed for meeting challenges and further fostering an assessment culture.
Using Collaborative Tools to Support Large Scale Multi-disciplinary Work navhundal
Using online collaborative tools, 480 students from different disciplines were assigned to multidisciplinary teams to consider the health impacts and care delivery in Sheffield over 12 weeks. Each of the 48 student teams had an online workspace on Google Sites and a dedicated facilitator for support. While students liked meeting other disciplines and teamwork, the module was found to be too long and some resources like video and blogs were underutilized. Future iterations will be shortened to 6 weeks, include more face-to-face time, and focus on developing healthcare interventions.
This document discusses blended learning evaluation strategies from the Flexible Learning Institute at Charles Sturt University. It outlines several programs the Institute offers, including a teaching fellowship scheme involving all university schools, course/degree symposium grants to support blended learning strategy, and an activity focusing on designing evaluation strategies for a project. The evaluation strategies are meant to measure impact on learners, teachers, disciplines, schools/faculties, and the overall organization.
This document summarizes chapters 5 and the conclusion from the book "Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers" by Villegas & Lucas. Chapter 5 discusses the institutional commitments needed from colleges and universities to educate culturally responsive teachers, including increasing diversity among students and faculty, collaborating between education departments and other disciplines, and investing in faculty development. The conclusion asks the reader to draw their own conclusion.
This document summarizes student performance and demographic data from the 2011-2012 AEIS report for Worley Middle School. It shows that in 2011-2012, the majority of Worley students passed the 7th and 8th grade reading, math, writing and science tests, though social studies passage rates were lower. Worley's performance ranked in the top three of six area middle schools for most subjects tested. The report also provides data on student attendance rates, demographics, class sizes, staff demographics, and campus financial expenditures.
Seizing the Agenda | Developing effective collaboration in locality areasWholeeducation
The document discusses a school partnership program between three secondary schools in Peterborough, England. It describes how Orton Longueville School, which was underperforming, was taken over by CMAT in 2009 and saw improved exam results from 44% in 2011 to 60% in 2013. A key factor in their success was collaborating with the other schools through a partnership which involved sharing resources, lesson observations, exam support and middle leader training. This pilot program demonstrated the benefits of school partnerships and helped spread collaboration to other schools in the region.
Blessing or Curse? OER Accessibility: The University of the South Pacific Exp...Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
This presentation was made at the AAOU Conference 2014 at the Open University Hong Kong on 29th October. It is a presentation based on a paper co-written by Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki and Neelam Narayan of the Centre for Flexible Learning, USP, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands.
This presentation was made in 2011 in an Instructional Designers meeting held on Friday 20th May at the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL), University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands
This presentation was made at the University of the South Pacific's Regional Campus Directors Forum in 2010, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands with collegue, Louise Vakamocea.
We would like to acknowledge the slideshare presentation by Sunnie Kim of Michigan State University on the topic Intro to Oer from from which a great portion of this presentation is based upon.
This document outlines a 14 step process for repurposing open educational resources (OERs) used by the University of the South Pacific (USP). The steps include identifying content, creating an outline, getting feedback, analyzing content, searching for relevant OERs, selecting an OER, analyzing and repurposing the selected content.
This document discusses the ethics of open scholarship and digital teaching. It addresses issues like open access/data, OERs, and learning analytics. While openness provides benefits like reuse and cost savings, it also presents risks if student data is not properly protected or people feel excluded. The document considers whether academics have an ethical obligation to use open resources and approaches, or if traditional closed systems still have value. It concludes that new digital tools require considering ethics in both adopting and not adopting open approaches.
This presentation was made at the 2011 VC's Learning and Teaching Forum with collegue Javed Yusuf at the AUSAID Lecture Theatre, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji Islands on 23rd September on the topic Taking Communities of Practice to Moodle.
Workshop: Best practices for undergraduate research experiencesKirsten Zimbardi
International invitation to facilitate workshop at the inaugural American Physiological Society's Institute on Teaching & Learning (Bar Harbour, Maine, USA; June 2014). Workshop was an interactive consultation with bioscience academics who wanted to implement or expand their programs for engaging undergraduate students in authentic research experiences.
Abstract
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) during which students undertake a research project over an extended period of time under the direct supervision of a researcher, are associated with high levels of student engagement, academic success (Kuh 2008) and a wide range of student benefits (Hunter et al. 2006). In physiology education, practicals that incorporate physiological research can be used to promote active learning (Michael 2006), and teach students key skills in critical evaluation of complex data alongside important physiological concepts (Zimbardi et al. 2013, Luckie et al. 2012). Following an extensive investigation of diverse ways that research experiences are successfully embedded into undergraduate curricula (Zimbardi and Myatt 2012), we have developed a model for up-scaling UREs to cohorts of several hundred students. We are now leading a national project in Australia to support the uptake of these Authentic Large-Scale Undergraduate Research Experiences (ALUREs) and provide the benefits of research experiences to thousands of undergraduate students. During this workshop, examples of ALUREs from the biosciences will be used to highlight key considerations for ALURE design and implementation. Workshop participants will be engaged in developing their own ALURE using a detailed checklist derived from our extensive experience supporting faculty in developing, implementing and evaluating ALUREs.
A broader view of undergraduate research opportunity programmes: collaborativ...Simon Haslett
Presentation by Dr Nathan Roberts and Dr Ian Mossman (Cardiff University) at the Research-Teaching Practice in Wales Conference, 10th September 2013, at the University of Wales, Gregynog Hall. Slidecast edited by Professor Simon Haslett.
Visioning Integrative Pathways with DePauw University November 29, 2018Bonner Foundation
This document discusses models for developing integrative pathways to connect student learning experiences across curricula and co-curricula. It provides examples of pathways from different universities that integrate academic courses with high-impact practices like research, internships, and capstone projects. The document suggests mapping potential pathways at DePauw University around issues like sustainability, poverty, and community-based research. Attendees participate in activities to brainstorm how courses and experiences could interconnect in an integrated pathway and to map potential curricular and co-curricular connections over four years. The document emphasizes developing pathways to prepare students for civic engagement and post-graduate success.
1. The document summarizes early experiences with converting courses to open educational resources (OER) at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) as part of a collaborative project with OER Africa.
2. An initial working retreat was held where OER support staff and lecturers participated in OER conversion activities and reflected on the process and barriers faced.
3. Key learnings included the need to revise OUT's OER conversion process to involve quality assurance and library personnel more, and to continue institutional support to fully implement OER and the upcoming OER policy at OUT.
Modelling openness: Developing the Digital Fluency course at OUTBrenda Mallinson
It is recognised that more than ‘literacy’ is needed in today’s academic environment in order to take full advantage of the affordances of using ICTs for the full range of teaching and learning, research, and administrative duties and blended modes of provision.
In order to address this issue, OUT, in collaboration with Saide’s OER Africa initiative, has conceptualised a course on ‘Digital Fluency’ to be provided as an Open Educational Resource (OER) and made available for ODeL provision.
The move from literacy to fluency encompasses effective and ethical online communication, critical interpretation, quality resource creation and curation, knowledge co-construction, and an understanding of using all of these abilities to open up education – with all of these becoming increasingly standard and effortless over time.
This document summarizes the development of an Open Educational Resources (OER) digital fluency course for academics at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The goals were to develop a 5 module course on digital skills, convert existing OUT courses to OER, establish an OER repository, and conduct research. The course was developed iteratively over 3 years with input from OUT and other universities. It was piloted with academics and received positive feedback. Moving forward, OUT aims to further integrate OER into its practices and policies to promote open teaching and learning.
Open Education for a Multicultural World:
A report from the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project
in the Global South
Open Educational Resources (OER) challenge the current storylines that steer higher education and publishers’ business models by providing students with access to alternative learning resources other than the traditional textbook or lecturer-generated teaching materials. To what extent students take up the opportunity to search for and find OER that are sufficiently authoritative and current to be considered worthwhile and suitably relevant to their context to be considered useful, is yet to be established in the Global South. Likewise it is also not fully understood to what degree lecturers take the time to explore the Internet to locate existing teaching materials to compare these to their own materials, to legally reuse, revise, remix and redistribute educational resources, and/or to contribute their original materials for others to reuse in specified ways. In fact it is not yet known to what extent students and lecturers are even aware of OER and how they are different from any other materials available on the Internet, let alone how they may practically access these materials in geographically remote or connectivity poor environments in countries in the Global South. Least of all, we have insufficient evidence about the actual impact of OER in the Global South on informal and formal students’ satisfaction or performance or lecturers’ pedagogical practices even though these benefits are widely touted.
This document outlines the implementation of academic support services for graduate students at the University of North Texas. It discusses the need for these services based on an institutional needs assessment that identified skills like oral/written communication, research abilities, and teaching skills as priorities. The Learning Center addressed these needs through workshops on statistics, research skills, academic coaching, graduate exam preparation, and online resources. These services helped address challenges like attendance but were successful, as shown by statistics tutoring outcomes. The document also discusses frameworks for researcher development and considerations for how other institutions can create similar graduate student support programs tailored to their own students and resources.
Embedding Graduate Attributes into the CurriculumRhona Sharpe
This document discusses embedding graduate attributes into university curriculums. It provides context for why graduate attributes are important for developing well-rounded graduates. The document outlines initiatives at Oxford Brookes University to map graduate attributes into programs, provide resources for staff, and evaluate staff and student engagement. It finds that working on graduate attributes helped staff think about program content and future employability. Evaluation found high student development in attributes like research literacy and critical thinking. Enablers included discipline contextualization, integration with QA processes, and focus on program teams.
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This document summarizes a study that explored student teachers' engagement with educational research. The study involved workshops with student teachers where they discussed examples of policy research and "what works" classroom research. Questionnaires and discussions with students identified several themes. Students saw barriers to using research due to time constraints and a need for very practical applications. They also questioned research methodologies and found some studies inaccessible. The workshops appeared to influence students' views on research to some degree. The study implications include addressing "what works" research approaches in teacher education programs.
The document discusses pedagogical improvement through open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) in the global South. It outlines several characteristics of OER that support pedagogical improvement, including promoting knowledge for all through customization and contextualization. The document presents a strategy for pedagogical improvement involving reflecting on learning assumptions, using a learning design framework with key questions, and fostering an evidence-based approach. It provides examples of OER Africa projects and ways students can create knowledge through technologies.
Factors enabling and constraining OER adoption and Open Education Practices: ...ROER4D
Factors enabling and constraining OER adoption and Open Education Practices: lessons from the ROER4D project
Sukaina Walji & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town
Presentation at World Conference for Online Learning,
Toronto, Canada, 15-19 October 2017
Academic Entrepreneurship at UCY,
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The results and the methodoloty of an extensive survey that were conducted at the university of Cyprus will be presented.
The place of practitioner research in supporting a culture of learrning in Ch...BASPCAN
Practitioner research in social work can build a culture of learning by directly addressing practice concerns and improving critical thinking. Managers should support voluntary, relationship-based practitioner research that produces relevant knowledge and reduces the gap between research and practice. The process involves submitting proposals, receiving guidance over 11 months from university mentors, and disseminating findings to build further collaborations.
Dr. Cable Green presented on strategies for taking open educational resources (OER) mainstream. He discussed the value and benefits of OER, challenges such as low awareness and discoverability, and opportunities to address demand, supply, and capacity issues. Some strategic priorities proposed were developing open policies, building communities, and focusing on open practices and pedagogy. The presentation called for discussion on an OER implementation strategy to accelerate mainstream adoption.
This document summarizes information about career pathway academies in the Hanford Joint Union High School District. It provides student enrollment numbers and describes the development of three academies: Business Finance & Technology, Arts Media & Entertainment, and Agricultural Science. It outlines the course sequences and structures for each academy. Challenges and next steps are also briefly discussed.
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This document discusses enhancing teaching and learning methodology in nursing education. It addresses current challenges in nursing education, best practices for teaching methodology including active learning strategies, collaborative learning techniques, use of technology, and incorporating real-world scenarios. It also discusses implementing effective assessment strategies, and the importance of ongoing faculty development to improve teaching. Resources for faculty development include online courses, professional organizations, and conferences focused on nursing education. The conclusion emphasizes that enhancing teaching methodology in each course is vital for creating effective learning experiences.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
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Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR: Best Practices for Implementation and...PECB
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How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
4. OER Project @ USP
• Academic support for students
• Repurposed to the needs of the
“student of today”
5. OER Project @ USP
1: Learning & Teaching • Is self-paced
contributes to learner
autonomy
2: Student Support
• Expanding student
support capacity for
3: Research, Graduate academic success
Affairs and
• EDULINK-SideCAP
Innovation
project pilot
outcomes at USP
6. OER Project @ USP
4: Regional & • Collaboration between
Community five international higher
Engagement & education institutions &
Internationalisation possibilities for
continued collaborations
5: Human Resources • Enhancement of
knowledge and skills of
USP staff in OERs
6: Governance,
• Outcomes & feedback
Management &
Continuous can contribute to more
Improvement effective uses of OERs
across the university
10. We have a dream…
• Repurposing other modules in the
series
• OER pilots for USP courses
• Sharing what is no more
• Collaboration
• Working group; OER institutional
policy