Activity 2: Open education reading
Summary
My notes, thoughts and questions as I read the two items. For the Anderson (2009), Alt-C Keynote I found it easier to download the slides file and open it in PowerPoint (some slides also contain notes) and also I found his keynote address on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fZ89q3eKPU
Again, it worked better to download the video to make it smoother for pausing as I took notes. There was so much in Anderson's keynote that I took a few days getting through it all, checking out his links and information. I've copied the links below and commented on what resources I thought looked good. The attached image comes from an introduction video from one of his links
In the image I questioned if Open Education means the end to plagiarism. Anderson answers this question at the end of his keynote, in the youtube video.
As well as an overload of sources (websites, Open journals, eBooks, textbooks etc.) for me the key idea was what defines an "Open Scholar". I began listing the attributes below.
Details
These are my notes on the two resources examined. Probably not that useful unless you want some quick links to some of the things mentioned in the Anderson slides.
My notes, thoughts and questions as I read the two items. For the Anderson (2009), Alt-C Keynote I found it easier to download the slides file and open it in PowerPoint (some slides also contain notes) and also I found his keynote address on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fZ89q3eKPU
Again, it worked better to download the video to make it smoother for pausing as I took notes. There was so much in Anderson's keynote that I took a few days getting through it all, checking out his links and information. I've copied the links below and commented on what resources I thought looked good. The attached image comes from an introduction video from one of his links
As well as an overload of sources (websites, Open journals, eBooks, textbooks etc.) for me the key idea was what defines an "Open Scholar". I began listing the attributes below.
Details
These are my notes on the two resources examined. Probably not that useful unless you want some quick links to some of the things mentioned in the Anderson slides.
The openness-creativity cycle in education -A Perspective, Martin Weller, 2012
Who is the "open scholar"? - Attributes?
+ve feedback creativity <-> open education resource, one +vely influences and increases the other. An explosion of open resources and creativity until overload? Where is the limit?
"The current financial crisis has seen a drop in admissions for the first time in
over a decade, so open access may become an increasingly significant factor
again." (p.)
over a decade, so open access may become an increasingly significant factor
again." (p.)
Open...
- Source - s/w
- Educational Resources (OER) - free resources
- Courses - this one
- Research - crowd-sourcing
- Data - RealClimate.Org
- APIs - Application Program Interfaces
- Publishing
- Test Centers - ICDL
The open scholar
Open resources - multimedia and shared globally
open scholar == digital scholar
"The Open Scholar, as I'm defining this person, is not simply someone who
agrees to allow free access and reuse of his or her traditional
scholarly articles and books; no, the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible
and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and
secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its
development." (http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html) Same source as quote in Weller paper.
"Because the Open Scholar reveals his or her processes, data, and
procedures, this can bridge the great divide between research and
teaching. Not only does the whole model invite collaboration (including
drawing upon students and uncredentialed participants), but it allows
the modeling of best practices that can help newcomers understand the
whole field in question, not just the specifics of a given study."
"The Open Scholar is also open in the sense that he or she is reachable
and responsive--open to input from those outside of the project, the
institution, or even academia. He or she is not impatient with amateurs.
And I think this sort of openness does require some facility with the
new tools of social media--a blog, a wiki, etc."
The Open Scholar is:
- An independent learner
- Time manger
- Organised
- Self-motivated
- Adept at using technology
- Confident with using technology
- Undaunted by the immense weight of information and media available
- Always tired due to lack of sleep as she downloads one new resource after the other in the hope that time will one day allow her to investigate and experience the Gigabytes of data
- Capable of discerning the quality open product from the chaff
- Self Archive (T
- Apply their research (T
- Someone who comments on other's work (T
- Promotes being an open scholar to others
- a Change Agent (T
What are the mechanisms by which new technologies have facilitated openness?
My opinions:
- Sharing - content to all (Weller agrees p.4)
- Protocols & standards (HTML - Tim Berners-Lee)
- Servers
- Free storage
- Global access
- Speed of creation and speed to "market" (agree p.5)
- Possibility of feedback and collaboration for improvements
- Software controlled assessment and feedback
- A.I.
- Dynamic tests
- 24/7 access
- No time and distance barriers
- Cheap
- Niche communication and social group of same interest/pursuit
Why is openness seen as a desirable and effective mode of operation in the digital networked
environment?
environment?
- Less formal constraints
- Not paying the "corporation" for their packaged educational product
- Wild west of access, less rules, more freedom
- Privacy of educational topic choice
- Mobility - study anyway (on the loo, waiting in the queue, at the zoo <smile>)
- Ease of resource access - Dropbox, Google Drive, phone
- Sticking two fingers up at the red bricks and their debt inducing fees
Digital Scholar
- Spends a lot of time on the Internet (how much is a waste?)
- Does not necessary grasp every new change
- Are monotonous blog posts and tweets signs of creativity or intellectual malaise?
Weller assumes then that digital scholar is the same as an Open Scholar (p.4) as he sets out list of digital scholar attributes and then assumes that these apply to an open scholar.
Is a digital scholar necessarily an "open" scholar? Take a private fee paying student at a for profit school, where everyone makes use of digital technology but products created are kept closed and in-house.
Hajjem, Harnad & Gingras (2005) compared 1,307,038 articles a cross a range of disciplines and
found that open access articles have a higher citation impact of between 36%-172%. (p.6)
found that open access articles have a higher citation impact of between 36%-172%. (p.6)
Obviously, because more people can access them.
In this interpretation creativity is driven by openness, because people are learning from each other's shared efforts, and openness is enhanced by creativity, as the performers seek to compete with each other and share with a global audience. (p.9)
Or the driving force is ego and a need to gain status from unknown "friends".
Anderson (2009), Alt-C Keynote
•Education for elites is not sufficient for planetary survival. (Slide 6) - Rather bold statement, "chip on the old shoulder?"
•Education for elites is not sufficient for planetary survival. (Slide 6) - Rather bold statement, "chip on the old shoulder?"
Slide 7: Why are the technologies disruptive? In what way? How can you align something that is new and emerging. As soon as it has been aligned it is no longer an emerging technology but an established one. It takes disruption, meaning? Chaos, argument, upset, confusion?
Slide12 : http://www.go2web20.net - hours (nay months of fun to be had here)
Slide 15: Critical Tools for Group Learning Environments
Slide 15: Critical Tools for Group Learning Environments
Slide 16: http://wiggio.com/ - looks good.
Slide 17: Is the Open Scholar hampered by teacher lead/control of the systems "Often overly confined by teacher expectation and institutional curriculum control"
Slide 18 : Groups of a feather flock together....
Slide 23: Networks - of sports groups, friends, hobbies, interests ...
Slide 24: “People who live in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas” Burt, 2005, p. 90"
Slide 27: Google Wave - died a death I believe in 2010
Slide 28: "Contribute for social capital, altruism and a sense of improving the world/practice through contribution" Could this be the driving force behind MOOC volunteer tutors?
Slide 33: "–Learning at the edge of chaos" being comfortable in this learning environment. So, next time your lesson observation ends in chaos, say that it was planned and reference Anderson. Lot's to quote from what he says here in the youtube video about this chaos being an excellent learning opportunity.
Slide 43: Collectives. Data mining the crowd traces left behind by individuals. Book :
Click: What We Do Online and Why It Matters [Paperback]In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the web, navigate to sites and search for information; he describes in unmatched detail explanations about our lives, our interests, our thoughts, our fears and our dreams. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Click-What-Online-Why-Matters/dp/0007277830/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363615764&sr=1-1)
Get's poor reviews.
Youtube video dies at 40:36mins.
Slide 50: Open Scholar. The Gideon Burton quote again, as listed above.
Slide 51: Use OER to save time. Use it. http://www.oercommons.org/
Slide 52: His university pays someone full time to go through their curriculum and locate free open resources for them to use. I wish we had that at school.
Open Scholar - sharee everything, totally transparent (like the notes on this blog), hopes to get feedback and reviews of the work, must be willing to allow it to be copied and modified?
Slide 58: What is the P2P university...? https://p2pu.org/en/
"What We’re All About
Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.
"The School of Open will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond."
Slide 17: Is the Open Scholar hampered by teacher lead/control of the systems "Often overly confined by teacher expectation and institutional curriculum control"
Slide 18 : Groups of a feather flock together....
Slide 23: Networks - of sports groups, friends, hobbies, interests ...
Slide 24: “People who live in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas” Burt, 2005, p. 90"
Slide 27: Google Wave - died a death I believe in 2010
Slide 28: "Contribute for social capital, altruism and a sense of improving the world/practice through contribution" Could this be the driving force behind MOOC volunteer tutors?
Slide 33: "–Learning at the edge of chaos" being comfortable in this learning environment. So, next time your lesson observation ends in chaos, say that it was planned and reference Anderson. Lot's to quote from what he says here in the youtube video about this chaos being an excellent learning opportunity.
Slide 43: Collectives. Data mining the crowd traces left behind by individuals. Book :
Click: What We Do Online and Why It Matters [Paperback]In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the web, navigate to sites and search for information; he describes in unmatched detail explanations about our lives, our interests, our thoughts, our fears and our dreams. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Click-What-Online-Why-Matters/dp/0007277830/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363615764&sr=1-1)
Get's poor reviews.
Youtube video dies at 40:36mins.
Slide 50: Open Scholar. The Gideon Burton quote again, as listed above.
Slide 51: Use OER to save time. Use it. http://www.oercommons.org/
Slide 52: His university pays someone full time to go through their curriculum and locate free open resources for them to use. I wish we had that at school.
Open Scholar - sharee everything, totally transparent (like the notes on this blog), hopes to get feedback and reviews of the work, must be willing to allow it to be copied and modified?
Slide 58: What is the P2P university...? https://p2pu.org/en/
"What We’re All About
Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.
Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything."
"The School of Open will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond."
Slide 60: Award Winning Open Access Books: E.g. 'The Theory and Practice of Online Learning" By the author of the slides (T. Anderson). $39.95
for paperback copy or download PDF for free???(http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120146).
Youtube video comes back to life again...
Slide 57: OLDaily by Stephen Downes. http://www.downes.ca/ ** Well worth a look **
Links to the article: Learners Are People, Not Isolated Test-Taking Brains: Why MOOCs Both Work and Fail (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-d-blum/learners-are-people-not-i_b_2891097.html)
11pm. Stopped video at 44:02 (slide 57) - using keepvid to download the video and reading Huffington Post MOOC article.
Slide 59: http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm - Publish or Perish tool. Gives detailed stats on your cited work.
What Publish or Perish is for
Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present
their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned
if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic
way.
"When using Publish or Perish for citation analyses, we would like to
suggest the following general rule of thumb:
- If an academic shows good citation metrics, it is very likely that he or she has made a significant impact on the field."
Open access journals cited more than closed commercial journals.
Slide 64: "Flat world" for textbooks - http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/
Slide 66: http://www.openstudents.org/ - defunct!
Slide 68: Eduforge - defunct, but there is The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (Anderson is the editor) - http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl - This looks impressive and there must be tons of good papers in archived editions.
From the video:
Q/A - Do we need to cite if we use other peoples ideas, quotes etc. "To build social capital". Yes, need to do it.
Can institutions afford Open Scholars? - Free courses increases subscription/sign-up
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