Open Education

Building resources for the open community MSL4206

Vanessa Camilleri

Outline

• Time on Task • Openness & Recap• Open Technologies• Open Access• Time on Task• Open Resources • Conclusion

Time on Task

• Some practice with Twitter• Log on to Twitter• Search some hash tags / view some blogs• Tweet about openness• Re-tweet interesting information

So what about Openness?

Technology?

Distributed networks

Personal Learning Networks

Community

Technology?

• Open Access• Open Resources• Open Source• Open Standards

Open Access

Open Access

• Free online access to the outputs of publicly funded research

• Benefits?

Time on Task

• Review the benefits of open access OR• Case studies of open access OR• What is needed for open access AND• Blog/Tweet about it• 20 mins to complete your task

Open Resources

• Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world (OER Commons)

Open Resources

• Why go for Online Education? Why do we need Open Resources?

Thank you Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt