Discussion: Open Education - OPTIONAL

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2014-03-11T13:40:48-06:00

Introduction

Open education is a new movement that seeks to make learning "open" or more accessible by making materials free and shareable. This is analogous to open source if you are familiar with computer programming. Many of the tools and technologies we teach in this class fall into the category of open educational resources or OER. There are lots of other OERs out there that we simply don't have time to discuss. These materials generally use creative commons licenses so anyone can use, modify or share the content someone else has created for educational purposes.

This week is "Open Education week". The open ed movement is quickly gaining ground and we are lucking enough to have one of the world leaders of this movement right here in the McKay School of Education, Dr. David Wiley of the IP&T department. He will be posting a series of short videos about open ed, explaining some of the philosophy behind it and making an argument for why we need to move to an open educational model.

As the title of this discussion says, this is an option activity but I would highly encourage you to take part as I think it will be very valuable to you, especially since education appears to be headed in this direction.

Videos

I will try and post the videos he releases on this page so you can all view them, but you can also view them on his YouTube channel: OpenContent.

Discussion

I invite you to post video comments below about:

any questions you have

reasons why you support his ideas

reasons why you don't support his ideas

your response to someone else's post (please do this in a "side post" so we can easily follow the conversion)

anything you find interesting or care to comment about.

When committing, please refer us to which video you are talking about if applicable.