Slide presentation for lecture #2 for MSL4206

1. Open Education
Building resources for the open community
MSL4206
Vanessa Camilleri

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Time on Task
Openness & Recap
Open Technologies
Open Access
Time on Task
Open Resources
Conclusion
Outline

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Some practice with Twitter
Log on to Twitter
Search some hash tags / view some blogs
Tweet about openness
Re-tweet interesting information
Time on Task

4. So what about Openness?

5. Technology?

6. Distributed networks

7. Personal Learning
Networks

8. Community

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Open Access
Open Resources
Open Source
Open Standards
Technology?

10. Open Access

11. • Free online access to the outputs of publicly funded
research
• Benefits?
Open Access

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Review the benefits of open access OR
Case studies of open access OR
What is needed for open access AND
Blog/Tweet about it
20 mins to complete your task
Time on Task

13. • Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online for
everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or
self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses,
course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments,
quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical
materials, games, simulations, and many more resources
contained in digital media collections from around the
world (OER Commons)
Open Resources

14. • Why go for Online Education? Why do we need Open
Resources?
Open Resources

15. Thank you
Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt