Keynote Presentation by Professor Alan Tait (UK Open University) at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013.
On 9 December 2013 we were very pleased to be able to welcome Professor Asha Kanwar (President & CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning) to Senate House to conduct a free lunchtime seminar “Old wine in new bottles? Exploring MOOCs”.
The special session was chaired by Professor Alan Tait (Open University, CDE Visiting Fellow), and was an opportunity to engage with one of the world’s leading advocates of learning for development.
MOOCs seem to be a natural progression in the different stages of the development of distance education. Starting with external degrees, correspondence courses, open and distance learning, and more recently OER, MOOCs are yet another phase of opening up access to education. But will MOOCs really make a difference to democratizing education? Will they transform pedagogy and positively impact learning outcomes? How will they negotiate the digital divide? Or are MOOCs simply old wine in new bottles? This presentation will address these questions and explore the ways in which MOOCs can play a positive role in transforming education.
An opportunity for ePortfolio and Portal users from around the Colleges of the University of London (and beyond) to share their experiences and discuss issues with experts and other users.
California Community College Faculty Motivation and Reflection on Open Textbo...Una Daly
Interviews were conducted with twelve faculty members at community colleges in California who adopted open textbooks in their teaching practice for one academic term or longer. The interviews queried faculty on motivation to undertake the adoption, pedagogical considerations, student savings and feedback, and support from other campus stakeholders.
Faculty were asked how their teaching and student learning was affected as a result of adopting an open textbook in their course. Specifically they were asked if they were collaborating more with other faculty members and whether they were now using a wider range of instructional materials in their courses. With regards to student learning, they were asked if they believed that student learning had improved or whether student retention had improved as a result of the adoption of an open and free textbook. Any unanticipated outcomes that had resulted from the adoption either in their own practice or with students was also queried.
In addition to the faculty and students, other stakeholders on campus are often involved in the decision and process to adopt an open textbook. College initiatives or pilot programs to increase access and equity were sometimes the instigators for making the change and other times it was strictly a faculty decision. Library, instructional design, and bookstore staff were other stakeholders who played roles in the adoption process.
Attend this presentation to better understand the motivations of college faculty who adopt open textbooks and how it affected their teaching practice. Hear about the challenges they encountered and any unexpected outcomes. Learn what students had to say about using open textbooks in the classroom and how it affected their learning and ability to be successful.
Jeff Haywood is the Vice-principal, Knowledge Management at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This Keynote Presentation was delivered at the EDEN 2014 Annual Conference in June 2014.
http://www.eden-online.org
Presentation given at GUSCO, the Guldensporen College in Kortrijk, Belgium. In this presentation I give an overview of the MOOC benefits for teachers and students.
On 9 December 2013 we were very pleased to be able to welcome Professor Asha Kanwar (President & CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning) to Senate House to conduct a free lunchtime seminar “Old wine in new bottles? Exploring MOOCs”.
The special session was chaired by Professor Alan Tait (Open University, CDE Visiting Fellow), and was an opportunity to engage with one of the world’s leading advocates of learning for development.
MOOCs seem to be a natural progression in the different stages of the development of distance education. Starting with external degrees, correspondence courses, open and distance learning, and more recently OER, MOOCs are yet another phase of opening up access to education. But will MOOCs really make a difference to democratizing education? Will they transform pedagogy and positively impact learning outcomes? How will they negotiate the digital divide? Or are MOOCs simply old wine in new bottles? This presentation will address these questions and explore the ways in which MOOCs can play a positive role in transforming education.
An opportunity for ePortfolio and Portal users from around the Colleges of the University of London (and beyond) to share their experiences and discuss issues with experts and other users.
California Community College Faculty Motivation and Reflection on Open Textbo...Una Daly
Interviews were conducted with twelve faculty members at community colleges in California who adopted open textbooks in their teaching practice for one academic term or longer. The interviews queried faculty on motivation to undertake the adoption, pedagogical considerations, student savings and feedback, and support from other campus stakeholders.
Faculty were asked how their teaching and student learning was affected as a result of adopting an open textbook in their course. Specifically they were asked if they were collaborating more with other faculty members and whether they were now using a wider range of instructional materials in their courses. With regards to student learning, they were asked if they believed that student learning had improved or whether student retention had improved as a result of the adoption of an open and free textbook. Any unanticipated outcomes that had resulted from the adoption either in their own practice or with students was also queried.
In addition to the faculty and students, other stakeholders on campus are often involved in the decision and process to adopt an open textbook. College initiatives or pilot programs to increase access and equity were sometimes the instigators for making the change and other times it was strictly a faculty decision. Library, instructional design, and bookstore staff were other stakeholders who played roles in the adoption process.
Attend this presentation to better understand the motivations of college faculty who adopt open textbooks and how it affected their teaching practice. Hear about the challenges they encountered and any unexpected outcomes. Learn what students had to say about using open textbooks in the classroom and how it affected their learning and ability to be successful.
Jeff Haywood is the Vice-principal, Knowledge Management at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This Keynote Presentation was delivered at the EDEN 2014 Annual Conference in June 2014.
http://www.eden-online.org
Presentation given at GUSCO, the Guldensporen College in Kortrijk, Belgium. In this presentation I give an overview of the MOOC benefits for teachers and students.
Open Distance Education in China: Trends and Developments by Haixia Xu (Chine...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Haixia Xu of the National Center for Education Development Research - Chinese Ministry of Education at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
Grainne Conole and Terese Bird presented this in a webinar for Open Education Week 2014, on 14th March 2014. The webinar is an activity of the eMundus EU-funded project about virtual mobility and open educational partnerships.
This presentation is intended to put the recent U.S. movement toward Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) into perspective, assessing its effects on higher education in the U.S. and around the world. This presentation is informed in part by the University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) long-term involvement in the OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER) movements and its more recent experience in producing and offering seven MOOC courses through Coursera. This presentation goes beyond asking questions to making predictions that can guide institutional responses.
Presentation from 'Enhancing the Student Experience' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Professor Allison Littlejohn (Director, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University)
Using Twitter to build online learning communitiesOlivia Kelly
A presentation for OU Associate Lecturers given at a staff conference in April 2018. Looks at current research on how Twitter can be used as a tool to build an online learning community between ALs and students and among ALs.
Embedding MOOCs in University courses: experiences and lessons learnedSólveig Jakobsdóttir
Jakobsdóttir, S., Bjarnason, G., Gunnarsson, K. H. og Kristófersdóttir, D. D. (2016, June). Embedding MOOCs in university courses: experiences and lessons learned. á EDEN 2016 annual conference: Re-imagining learning environments, Budapest.
Slldes for Faculty presentation on Moocs 2017 – Possibilities for On Campus and Lifelong Learning. Presented May 31, 2017 at Jiangnan University, China
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Lauri...eraser Juan José Calderón
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Laurillard y Eileen Kennedy. Centre for Global Higher Education working paper series. @ResearchCGHE
A CDE seminar held on 19/4/11: Clare Sansom, structural biologist, Web 2.0 enthusiast and CDE Fellow, will then illustrate how the immersive virtual world, Second Life, can be used to illustrate molecular structures and teach molecular sciences, and discuss its application in teaching other highly "visual" disciplines.
A presentation by Cathy Walsh and Ella Mitchell, University of East London. Conducted at a DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation) dissemination event hosted by the Centre for Distance Education on 26 July 2011.
Open Distance Education in China: Trends and Developments by Haixia Xu (Chine...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Haixia Xu of the National Center for Education Development Research - Chinese Ministry of Education at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
Grainne Conole and Terese Bird presented this in a webinar for Open Education Week 2014, on 14th March 2014. The webinar is an activity of the eMundus EU-funded project about virtual mobility and open educational partnerships.
This presentation is intended to put the recent U.S. movement toward Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) into perspective, assessing its effects on higher education in the U.S. and around the world. This presentation is informed in part by the University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) long-term involvement in the OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER) movements and its more recent experience in producing and offering seven MOOC courses through Coursera. This presentation goes beyond asking questions to making predictions that can guide institutional responses.
Presentation from 'Enhancing the Student Experience' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Professor Allison Littlejohn (Director, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University)
Using Twitter to build online learning communitiesOlivia Kelly
A presentation for OU Associate Lecturers given at a staff conference in April 2018. Looks at current research on how Twitter can be used as a tool to build an online learning community between ALs and students and among ALs.
Embedding MOOCs in University courses: experiences and lessons learnedSólveig Jakobsdóttir
Jakobsdóttir, S., Bjarnason, G., Gunnarsson, K. H. og Kristófersdóttir, D. D. (2016, June). Embedding MOOCs in university courses: experiences and lessons learned. á EDEN 2016 annual conference: Re-imagining learning environments, Budapest.
Slldes for Faculty presentation on Moocs 2017 – Possibilities for On Campus and Lifelong Learning. Presented May 31, 2017 at Jiangnan University, China
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Lauri...eraser Juan José Calderón
The potential of #MOOC for learning at scale in the Global South. Diana Laurillard y Eileen Kennedy. Centre for Global Higher Education working paper series. @ResearchCGHE
A CDE seminar held on 19/4/11: Clare Sansom, structural biologist, Web 2.0 enthusiast and CDE Fellow, will then illustrate how the immersive virtual world, Second Life, can be used to illustrate molecular structures and teach molecular sciences, and discuss its application in teaching other highly "visual" disciplines.
A presentation by Cathy Walsh and Ella Mitchell, University of East London. Conducted at a DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation) dissemination event hosted by the Centre for Distance Education on 26 July 2011.
Presenation from a Centre for Distance Education seminar 'Writing course materials and formative assessment for successful flexible learning', held at the University of London in June 2014.
Conducted by Ormond Simpson, Education Consultant, Visiting CDE Fellow.
Audio from the session is available at www.cde.london.ac.uk
Presenation from a Centre for Distance Education seminar 'Writing course materials and formative assessment for successful flexible learning', held at the University of London in June 2014.
Chaired by Dr Clare Sansom, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College, CDE Fellow.
Audio from the session is available at www.cde.london.ac.uk
Presenation from a Centre for Distance Education seminar 'Writing course materials and formative assessment for successful flexible learning', held at the University of London in June 2014.
Conducted by Gwyneth Hughes, Reader in Higher Education, Institute of Education, CDE Fellow.
Audio from the session is available at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
This presentation at the Hellenic Open University Symposium on Open Universities in November 2015 sets out an argument for concern that the forward march of open universities in Europe may be threatened. The need for capacity for Higher Education in the developing countries, proposed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, will need a radical transformation of quality and student success in order for ODEL and open universities to play a full role.
Flexible Delivery of English & Mathematics with OpenLearn: Impact of Bringing...Robert Farrow
Paper presented at Open Education Global 2019. Until 2012 there was a nascent OER movement developing the UK, supported by government funding and agencies like JISC. This led to a network of OER projects at many higher education providers. With the withdrawal of funding under subsequent governments the OER movement in the UK became restricted to individual efforts alongside hubs of activity (OER World Map, 2019; JISC, 2013). While there is still little governmental support for OER - open access is generally a more consistent focus - there is an increasing interest at policy level in flexible and digital forms of delivery (Orr et al., 2018).
This presentation reports on two projects. Bringing Learning to Life is funded by the UK Department for Education under the Flexible Learning Fund. Flexible Essential Skills is funded by The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW). Both projects involve making foundational English and Mathematics courses available to a wide range of learners through the OpenLearn repository and LMS (Law & Perryman, 2017). The content is made available as OER for use by a range of learners, including formal students in further education colleges (face-to-face, blended) and non-formal learning scenarios. Both projects are led by The Open University (UK) who provide programme management, content development, platform delivery and evaluation.
Evaluation methodologies are being harmonised in the interests of establishing a basis for comparison between the two datasets. Evaluation results based on original data will be presented. These will include a detailed description of the learners targeted and their needs; perceptions of the key challenges faced; attitudes towards technology and digital skills in adult learners; an exploration of learner motivation, strategy and outcomes; and an examination of the perceptions and views of staff. The impact evaluations combine survey and interview data with OpenLearn analytics and case studies for individual colleges.
Closing the Gap - flexible approaches to adult learningDiana Andone
Closing the Gap - flexible approaches to adult learning
Diana Andone, EDEN EC
Antonio Teixeira, EDEN president
Presentation for the IDEAL Workshop at the EADTU Conference, 29-30 October, 2015, Hagen
TU Delft is a strong supporter of Open. Therefor course contents in OpenCourseWare, iTunesU and MOOCs are shared under a Creative Commons license (CC BY NC SA). In 2014, edX provided Delft University of Technology with the opportunity to sublicense its DelftX MOOCs to regions where traditionally acces had been limited; EdRaak would translate DelftX MOOCs to increase access to the Arabic speaking region and XuetangX would do the same for the Mandarin speaking region, in adition overcoming the great Firewall of China. This opportunity also provided a challenge: How can we sublicense DelftX MOOCs (leading to revenue) if (in part) the contents are already available under an open (Creative Commons) license? In this paper and presentation we will share how Delft University of Technology tried to tackle this challenge to experiment with experiments leading to revenue generation while at the same time upholding its open policy.
Universal Access to Knowledge through Quality Learningicdeslides
Plenary presentation at ICT in Education Conference, Qingdao, China 23 - 25 May 2015. Follow up of the Incheon Declaration. Education 2030: Equitable and inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030.
Transforming lives through education.
Presentation of Airina Volungevičienė, EDEN president, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, for the Open Education Week's first day webinar on "Education 2030 – Open knowledge, skills, attitudes and values in Europe and the world" - 4 March 2019
Recordings of the discussion are available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pdu1u75yqba1/
Similar to RIDE2013 keynote: The Story of 'Open' (20)
For the latest free CDE seminar we were very pleased to welcome Jon Bellum, Provost and Senior Vice-President at Colorado State University-Global Campus, to Senate House to talk about a case study for retention in online learning.
Colorado State University-Global Campus is a 100% online public institution focused on providing adults with career-relevant bachelor’s and master’s degrees. A university wide retention and persistence program was designed to provide its non-traditional students with the support they needed throughout the student lifecycle. Since implementing this process improvement, CSU-Global has been able to maintain first-to-third term retention rates that exceed 80% and a four-year retention/graduation rate that exceeds 75%.
The presentation ran through the processes involved in implementing this programme and reviewed the outcomes.
The slides and seminar is of interest to anyone involved in developing courses for online or flexible delivery – audio for the session can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Centre for Distance Education lunchtime seminar - conducted by Ormond Simpson, CDE Visiting Fellow.
This seminar shows that student support need not be a pure institutional cost in distance education. If properly designed and evaluated it can actually make a financial profit for the institution as well as enhance its reputation. Heath warning - this presentation contains some mathematics....
Audio of the seminar can be found here: www.cde.london.ac.uk. More information on Ormond's work can be found here: www.ormondsimpson.com.
Presentation from the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Dr Ayona Silva-Fletcher, Kirsty Magnier, Kim Whittlestone and Stephen May (Royal Veterinary College. Keynote videos, seminar audio and other resources from the event are available at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation by Pat Lockley, Learning Systems Developer, University of London Undergraduate Laws Programme. MOOC: English Common Law (https://www.coursera.org/course/engcomlaw)
Last year the University of London International Programmes launched four MOOCs on the Coursera platform and the report on their implementation was published in November (http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/mooc_report-2013.pdf). Since then, members of the teams who delivered these MOOCS have been asked many questions about their experiences so the Centre for Distance Education (www.cde.london.ac.uk) arranged a seminar to provide more information on the practicalities of how you actually set up and run such a course.
Presentation by Patricia McKellar, University of London Undergraduate Laws Programme. MOOC: English Common Law (https://www.coursera.org/course/engcomlaw)
Last year the University of London International Programmes launched four MOOCs on the Coursera platform and the report on their implementation was published in November (http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/mooc_report-2013.pdf). Since then, members of the teams who delivered these MOOCS have been asked many questions about their experiences so the Centre for Distance Education (www.cde.london.ac.uk) arranged a seminar to provide more information on the practicalities of how you actually set up and run such a course.
Analytics: as if learning mattered
Presentation from 'In Focus: Learner analytics and big data', a CDE technology symposium held at Senate House on 10 December 2013. Conducted by Adam Cooper (Co-Director, Cetis)
Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
The Learning Ecosystem – A Content Agnostic Adaptive Learning and Analytics System
Presentation from 'InFocus: Learner analytics and big data', a CDE technology symposium held at Senate House on 10 December 2013. Conducted by George Mitchell (Chief Operations Officer, CCKF Ltd, Dublin).
Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Improving retention: predicting at-risk students by analysing clicking behaviour in a virtual learning environment.
Presentation from 'InFocus: Learner analytics and big data', a CDE technology symposium held at Senate House on 10 December 2013. Conducted by Annika Wolff, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University.
Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Moving from Learning Analytics to Social (Emotional) Learning Analytics.
Presentation from 'In Focus: Learner analytics and big data', a CDE technology symposium held at Senate House on 10 December 2013. Conducted by Dr Bart Rientes (Senior Lecturer, Department of Higher Education, University of Surrey).
Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Design for learning' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Mariella Stivala (St Martin’s Institute of Higher Education, Malta).
Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Design for learning' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Dr J Simon Rofe (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). Audio and video of the conference can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Future Technology' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Professor Margaret Cox, Dr Jonathan San Diego and Dr Barry Quinn (King's College London). Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Enhancing the student experience' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Ormond Simpson (HE consultant, Visiting CDE Fellow). Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Enhancing the student experience' workshop at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Ormond Simpson (HE consultant, Visiting CDE Fellow). Audio of the session and more details can be found at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
Presentation from 'Future Technology' strand at the CDE’s Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference, held at Senate House London on 1 November 2013. Conducted by Dr Clare Sansom (Birkbeck College, University of London).
'The role of Open Access and Open Educational Resources within Distance Education.' Presentation by Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos (King's College London; CDE Fellow) during CDE seminar The Role of Open Access and OERs within Distance Education. Full details at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
'What is the role of Open Access and Open Educational Resources within Distance Education?' Presentation by Jon Gregson (Institute for Development Studies, UK; CDE Visiting Fellow) during CDE seminar The Role of Open Access and OERs within Distance Education. Full details at www.cde.london.ac.uk.
CDE seminar conducted by Dr Gwyneth Hughes, Senior Lecturer in HE, Institute of Education.
In this session Dr Gwyneth Hughes, a CDE Fellow, drew on her CDE research on ipsative assessment and a JISC funded project that she is leading at the IOE to explore why it is useful to analyse feedback for distance learners. It demonstrated a feedback analysis tool that has been developed as part of the project.
Gwyneth, a CDE Fellow, teaches on Higher Education programmes within the Lifelong and Comparative Education department including the MBA in Higher Education Management. She also supervises doctoral students. She has undertaken research and published on a range of topics including: ipsative assessment, formative feedback, identity, blended learning, e‐learning, gender inclusivity, widening participation, online collaborative work, web 2.0, learning technologies and reflective practice.
Dr Jeff Borden, Director of the Center for Online Learning,
Vice President of Instruction & Academic Strategy, Pearson eCollege, Denver
Presentation at 'Online and open access learning in HE: MOOCs, new pedagogies and business models' conference (5 February 2013, Senate House, London).
Presentation from Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos (Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, King’s College London) on the use of OERs in distance education.
Conducted at the CDE's Research and Innovation in Distance Education and eLearning conference on 19 October 2012.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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.
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.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdf
RIDE2013 keynote: The Story of 'Open'
1. The Story of ‘Open’
RIDE conference, Centre for Distance Education, University
of London International Programmes, 2013
Alan Tait
Professor of Distance Education and Development
The Open University, UK
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6. The search engine: opening up the
world
• 1990: Archie
McGill University, Montreal
• 1996: Altavista
DEC, California
• As important as Gutenberg’s printing
press?
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7. University of London
• 1858: University of London External
Studies: first university to be open to place
• 1878: University of London: first university
to be open to women
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8. ‘The wireless university’
• 1926: J.C. ‘Jack’ Stobart, first Director of
Education at the BBC proposed
‘the wireless university’
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13. What has openness in education
meant?
• Attack on notion that quality means exclusion
• Reversal: quality means inclusion
• Element in democratisation of society since mid
19th C in Europe
• Disembedding of individual from the local
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15. Drop out UK, Higher Education, all
modes
• 21.6% failed to complete degree in
2010/11
• 32% at University of Highland and Islands
• 21.4% University of Bolton
• 1.4% University of Cambridge
• Improvement overall from previous year
HESA Non-continuation rates Table 3A and table 3E
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16. Leave HE after 1 full year of study
UK
• Full time 7.4%
• Part time 35.1%
• Open University 44.7%
HESA Non-continuation rates Table 3A and table 3E
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17. HEFCE study of part-time
undergraduate completion 1996-97
First degree
awarded
No longer active
UK Higher
Education
Institutions (non
OU)
39%
59%
OU
22%
75%
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Table 4 Outcomes of part-time first degree entrants in 1996-97
after 11 academic years p14
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18. HEFCE’s refinement of data
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•
..around half of part-time entrants in the years 2003-04 to 2006-07
in this OU population begin first degree courses, and half begin
modules for institutional credits.
It is important to note this 50/50 split when considering earlier
cohorts and, in particular, the results reported throughout this
report with regard to entrants to the OU in 1996-97. If it is
assumed that a similar split between first degree and institutional
credits occurs in the earlier years of the OU time series, and that
a large proportion of those embarking only on institutional credits
do not intend to and do not gain a first degree, the true underlying
rates of first degree completion for OU entrants are likely to be
double the results reported in the following sections of this report.
p13
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19. Open access
• 45% of Open University students have
one A level or less
• Less than minimum conventional
university entry qualifications
Source : http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/facts-and-figures
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20. Doing worse or doing more difficult
things?
• With busy working students
• With ethnic diversity
• With less or no demand for previous
Educational qualifications (OU)
• With less social and financial capital
• Less resilience
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21. What does drop out represent?
• Not status of university
• Not Distance and on-line modes
• But risk and challenges of openness and
inclusion
• See Creelman and Reneland-Forsman:
EURODL 2013
• Combined with competence in learning design:
integration of curriculum and student support
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22. What is to be done about drop out
in e-learning?
Respond to major factors in drop-out
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•
•
Time pressure
Self-management
Family
Logistics and support (including technical
support)
• Curriculum relevance
Street H (2010) Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 13:4
• Plus educational preparedness
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23. Three main student
support models at OU
• 1976-2000
Tutor-counsellor, embedded in local study centre
for whole qualification, plus tutor more or less
local, plus Regional Centre staff
• 2000-2012
Tutor, more or less local, plus Regional Centre
Advisory staff
• 2014 on
National Student Support Team on qualification
basis, plus tutor more or 23
less local
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24. Regions and Nations
England
13 OU Regions/Nations
Milton Keynes (HQ)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
13
London
South (Oxford)
South West (Bristol)
West Midlands (Birmingham)
East Midlands (Nottingham)
East (Cambridge)
Yorkshire (Leeds)
North West (Manchester)
North (Newcastle)
South East (East Grinstead)
10 Wales (Cardiff)
11 Scotland (Edinburgh)
12 Ireland (Belfast and Dublin)
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25. Open University Study Experience
Programme
• Overall aim: to move OU qualification completion
rates to sector average for part-time students
• ‘a new study experience that will be coherent,
personal and targeted’
• Integration of student support and curriculum
• Coherent student journey through qualifications
• Study support teams
• Improved careers service and employability
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27. National Student Survey UK
• Feedback from ‘Final Year’
undergraduates
• ‘feedback on what is has been like to
study their course at their institution’
• Open University in top 3 universities in
2006-2012
• 2012 Open University ranked FIRST with
93% satisfied with taught course
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28. Re-assessing student support in
ODL
• In second generation DE, place meant
separation of Student Support, curriculum
and assessment elements in some OU’s
• Technology now permits their reintegration
in curriculum lines
• Learning design subordinates ‘Student
Support’
• Learner analytics supports intervention in
radically improved ways
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29. Is openness and inclusion worth it?
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Is inclusion important?
Rights-based approach: Social justice
Skilled and knowledgeable society
Always pushing at boundaries
Often dismissed as ‘blithering nonsense’
(Ian Mcleod, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970)
• No way back to elite
• Way forward through integrated curriculum and student
support reform
• ICT central for learning design and learning analytics
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30. Other contemporary ‘opens’
• Open source software: anti proprietory
ethos
• Open access publishing
• Open educational resources
• MOOCs
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31. Open access publishing
• Challenge to dominant journal business
model
• New entrants, IRRODL, EURODL,
TOJDE, JL4D
• Books published in both modes, e.g.
Weller on Digital Scholarship
• UK Government and publisher response
‘Green model’
• Uneasy settlement
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32. Focus and Scope
The Journal of Learning for Development provides a forum for the
publication of research with a focus on innovation in learning, in
particular but not exclusively open and distance learning, and its
contribution to development. Content includes interventions that
change social and/or economic relations, especially in terms of
improving equity.
JL4D publishes research and case studies from researchers, scholars
and practitioners, and seeks to engage a broad audience across that
spectrum. It aims to encourage contributors starting their careers, as
well as to publish the work of established and senior scholars from
the Commonwealth and beyond.
www.jl4d.org
Editor-in-Chief Alan Tait
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33. Open Educational Resources
• 2001: Creative Commons license
• 2012: UNESCO ‘OER’s as a means of
promoting access, equity and quality in the
spirit of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights’
• 2005: OECD ‘Giving knowledge for free’
• Now thousands of OER’s
• Critique of quality and outcomes
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35. iTunes U
Open Learn
Visitors since launch: 22
million
Visitors 2011/12: 5.4 million
I Tunes
Visitors since start: 2.9
million
Visitors 2011/12: 63.3 million
You Tube
Visitors since start: 16.8
million video views
Visitors 2011/12: 2.7 million
video views
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36. Observations on MOOCs
• Passion for learning on huge scale
• Drop out huge: but is universal completion the
aim?
• Quality of pedagogy improving
• Have created radical conversations in researchled universities about online learning
• Enhanced potential for ICT in higher education
futures
• Response to price barriers in USA and UK
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37. http://futurelearn.com/
• Platform for Higher Education, mostly UK
research intensive universities
• Free
• Will be social in nature
• Facilities for discussion page by page
• Will embed notion of ‘followers’, relating to
students and tutors
• Designed from start for tablet and mobile
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38. ‘Closed’ continues
• Neo-liberal approach to higher education
as commodity and private good
• USA tuition fee debt: 1 billion $USD
• England: tuition fees now £8,600 per year
• England total residential experience for
BA/BSc: ? £50,000
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39. Battle of ideas
• Education a contested domain as private
or public good
• Commodity or tax supported/free
• As locus for private for profit investment or
tax supported public service
• For those who can afford it or those who
want it
• ‘Market society or society with a market’
• Openness at heart of battle
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Editor's Notes
The aim has been to cause the minimum amount of disruption to colleagues’ work.
(Talk through areas of the table that are relevant to your audience – a good point to check for understanding and opportunity to raise questions)