Publish a blog post that describes your experience with open education. Is it just with the OU, or have you studied a MOOC, used open resources, or engaged with open access publications?
Open Education - I am still trying to understand exactly what comes under this umbrella.
Does it mean Open access... if you can pay,
Is it free at the point of use?
Does it mean 'open' because there are no pre-requisites or qualifications?
Is the UK school system a form of 'Open' education ?.. if so then yes I have been lucky to have been part of that.
International schools provide and IB educations, school fees can be high, but no student is excluded by ability. - is that Open Education?
Are resources published under the Creative commons license 'Open' resources and those behind a paywall not?
These are just a few questions which I hope to be able to answer at the end of this module,.
As to my own experience with what I currently understand to be 'Open' education:
I attended school in the UK. ( although my secondary school was selective, so not 'Open' to all)
I taught at in international school as described above
I completed a second undergraduate degree with the Open University and I am currently working to finish MAODE
I have dipped in and out of courses in Future Learn, Coursera and Open Learn. All are constructed in a way that I have been able to gather the learning I needed at the time, without completing the whole course and paying for badged or certificates.
I successfully used the Coursera course: "Learing how to Learn" for students with a group of students in school as they were learning and applying independent study skills.
I am frequently looking for quality resources available on the www to inform my teaching a learning practice - does this constitute 'open' resources?
This includes freely available news articles and podcasts.
I am looking forward to working on this module and getting clearer idea of what is meant by open education, open resources, and open access publications.
H817 W7 A1 - Open Education
Publish a blog post that describes your experience with open education. Is it just with the OU, or have you studied a MOOC, used open resources, or engaged with open access publications?
Open Education - I am still trying to understand exactly what comes under this umbrella.
Does it mean Open access... if you can pay,
Is it free at the point of use?
Does it mean 'open' because there are no pre-requisites or qualifications?
Is the UK school system a form of 'Open' education ?.. if so then yes I have been lucky to have been part of that.
International schools provide and IB educations, school fees can be high, but no student is excluded by ability. - is that Open Education?
Are resources published under the Creative commons license 'Open' resources and those behind a paywall not?
These are just a few questions which I hope to be able to answer at the end of this module,.
As to my own experience with what I currently understand to be 'Open' education:
I attended school in the UK. ( although my secondary school was selective, so not 'Open' to all)
I taught at in international school as described above
I completed a second undergraduate degree with the Open University and I am currently working to finish MAODE
I have dipped in and out of courses in Future Learn, Coursera and Open Learn. All are constructed in a way that I have been able to gather the learning I needed at the time, without completing the whole course and paying for badged or certificates.
I successfully used the Coursera course: "Learing how to Learn" for students with a group of students in school as they were learning and applying independent study skills.
I am frequently looking for quality resources available on the www to inform my teaching a learning practice - does this constitute 'open' resources?
This includes freely available news articles and podcasts.
I am looking forward to working on this module and getting clearer idea of what is meant by open education, open resources, and open access publications.