Post in response to #H817open task 4: Priorities for Research in Open Education
"Imagine you are advising a funding organisation that wishes to promote activity and research in the area of open education.
- Set out the three main priorities they should address, explaining each one and providing a justification for your list. Share this in the Week 1 forum8 and compare with priorities of others.
Thinking about a commercial training context, my priorities would be:
1) Learner Support: My angle on this is about the scaffolding, the signposting and aggregating infrastructure that needs to be in place to help learners organise, sense-make and plug in their own preferred technologies and tools; and then promoting the development of self-directing skills in this area.
There's something about the need for project management tools, to allow for meaningful cooperation activities to take place both synchronously and asynchroously, without some learners being cast adrift.
2) Intellectual rights / Content ownership: I can't see this going away. There needs to be a consideration of how future business models will work. Perhaps the future is that the infrastructure needs in my first point will be met through new models?
3) Recognition / validation: Linked to assessment, I suppose. There needs to be a meeting point between non-accredited, open and fluid learning with the structured formal stuff. Look here for innovation.