[Open-education] [cc-openedu] Students and Open Education

Thu Nov 23 18:45:05 UTC 2017

Thank you so much for these fascinating efforts of your dedicated work.
Looks like to empower students through the "wiki way" is a prevalescent
OEP, as well, to build a online personal space or portfolio to diseminate
and share student's academic work.  Best wishes to all,

Werner

2017-11-22 18:23 GMT-03:00 Shawn Fraser <snfraser at gmail.com>:

> This is a fascinating thread.
> Verena, your notes above hit close to home for us. We have just written
> and are launching a new introductory grad course to our Masters of Health
> Studies program where students are required to engage in open educational
> practices. This open learning approach will be built throughout the
> program. In the first course they create an ePortfolio (using a tool of
> their choice) and they begin blogging and establishing a professional
> digital identify. They will also learn about digital literacy through
> course activities and practice using social media tools to leverage the
> expertise of learning networks within and outside of the course.
>
> -shawn
>
> Shawn N Fraser, PhD
> Associate Dean and Associate Professor
> Faculty of Health Disciplines
> Athabasca University
> 1-866-500-2867
> shawn.fraser at athabascau.ca
> *https://twitter.com/shawnnfraser <https://twitter.com/shawnnfraser>*
>
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> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Verena Roberts <vroberts at rvschools.ab.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> When considering open educational practice, using the idea of Domain of
>> Our Own <https://www.wired.com/insights/2012/07/a-domain-of-ones-own/> might
>> also be considered? There is also information from the UMW
>> <http://umw.domains/>
>>
>> The idea of making learning visible (openly) outside of the formal
>> constraints of a learning management system, can also be considered open
>> educational practice.
>>
>> In this case, the focus would be on students making and creating their
>> own OER, but also building their social reputation and online identity.
>>
>> Obviously, part of this approach would also have to include an awareness
>> about student digital privacy and data and having it as a "choice" could
>> always be an option.
>>
>> If the emphasis is on the strengths and weaknesses of participatory
>> culture
>> <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/confronting-challenges-participatory-culture>
>> - the strength of this pedagogical approach lies in the opportunity for
>> learning to happen, and be visible, in formal and informal networked
>> learning spaces.
>>
>> If creating domain of our owns is not an option, Robin DeRosa has also
>> written about creating dPorts which are digital ePortfolio activities.
>> These are also really great examples of open practice and pedagogy.
>>
>> From Robin:
>>
>> I don’t have too much written up on ePorts (mostly tackle the idea when I
>> speak, so there is a lot of repetition of some of the basics in my slides,
>> though I know it’s hard to decipher the full meaning from the decks). You
>> can check out this presentation, and see the section starting around slide
>> 31: https://www.slideshare.net/orbitdog1/sustainable-assignm
>> ents-how-open-pedagogy-can-transform-teaching
>>
>> I have a bit about ePorts in this post about a First-Year Seminar I
>> taught using OEP: http://robinderosa.net/higher-ed/extreme-makeover-pedag
>> ogy-edition/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Verena :)
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Werner Westermann <
>> wernerwestermannj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all, reagrds from Santiago.  Apologies for cross-posting.
>>>
>>> An OpenCon event will be held in Chile.  I was very happy to be invited,
>>> and of course I would like to tackle my presentation highlightiing student
>>> participation and engagement.  I've found information about perceptions and
>>> attitudes:  https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/students%E2%80%99-
>>> views-learning-methods-and-open-educational-resources-higher-education
>>>
>>> But, what open educational practices would you feature thinking about
>>> strong student participation in learning?  My paradigm on this is the
>>> LibreText project https://chem.libretexts.org/  Other best practices?
>>> Thanks for your time and consideration,
>>>
>>> Werner Westermann
>>>
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