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10. Advantages
• Public university
• Degree-granting
• Open admission
• Distance education delivery
• Hundreds of credit courses
• Year-round enrolment
• Flexible learning methods
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11. Advantages
• Public university
• Degree-granting
• Open admission
• Distance education delivery
• Hundreds of credit courses
• Year-round enrolment
• Flexible learning methods
12. Athabasca University:
• Independent learning delivery mode
• Industrial model for course development
• Strong instructional design
• Text and workbook based courses
• Moving to online delivery
• Presently email and web communications with
+95% of students
• US accreditation 2005 (Middle States)
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13. Athabasca University
Innovation in Education
Call Centres Educational
Institution
Marriage
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22. Ontario
• Contact North
• Univ. of Waterloo
• Univ. of Ottawa
• Ontario Technological Univ.
• Univ. of Phoenix
• DeVries Institute
• UofT Accessibility
23. Saskatchewan &
Manitoba
• Interuniversities North
• First Nations University
• Univ. of Saskatchewan
24. Alberta & BC
• Athabasca University
• Netera Alliance
• K12 Consortia
• UBC
• Thompson Rivers University
• BCcampus
25. Copyright:
The Good Guys
”Research must be given a large and
liberal interpretation in order to
ensure that users' rights are not
unduly constrained”
• availability of a licence is not
relevant
• fair dealing is an integral part of
Chief Justice McLachlin the scheme of copyright law in
Canada.
26. Copyright:
The Good Guys
"Downloading a song for personal use
does not amount to infringement. I
cannot see a real difference between a
library that places a photocopy machine
in a room full of copyrighted material
and a computer user that places a
personal copy on a shared directory."
Justice Konrad von Finckenstei
27. Change: Steps
• Identify the innovators
• Find a high level champion
• Start ONE demo project
Project must be Top Quality
28. Systemic
Success Factors
• Secure funding
• Integrate with f2f delivery
• Build trust - get “buy-in”
• Collaborate – share costs
• Ensure relevance of courses
• Publicize success “no significant difference”
• Link to economic development
29. Human
Success Factors
• Human skills 1st not Technical
• Keep a human body in the loop
• Use volunteers – don’t coerce
• Be open with students – problems
• Build student – student support
• Pace students - deadlines
30. Network
Success Factors
• Move quickly in establishing sites
• Critical mass of sites (large & small)
• Content, content, content (>33% of $$)
• Find content – don’t create it
• Inform & market
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31. Course Development
Success Factors
• Take risks – expect failures
• Judge overall success not individual
projects
• Partner
• Find content if possible – don’t create it
• Generic courses (learning objects)
32. Technical
Success Factors
• Avoid proprietary solutions
• Build for latest technology (but ensure
backward compatibility)
• Choose tech. for pedagogical reasons
(but don’t forget $$)
• Incremental purchasing vs. all at once
What is more remarkable is the increase in the actual numbers of individuals who have experienced taking courses through Athabasca University’s open and distance delivery systems.
http://gbl55.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mooc3.png The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) phenomenon, first implemented by George Siemens of Athabasca University and Stephen Downes of the National Research Council is a clear demonstration of scalable interactive courses in action. MOOCs take full advantage of the power of networks to provide learning opportunities to distributed learners using open content. MOOCs are highly automated allowing for interactions among and between learners and instructors (Mackness, Fai, Mak & Williams, 2010).
Columba refused him. Finnian appealed to the High King of Ireland who gave the judgement, "To every cow its calf". Columba caused a battle to be fought against the King who was defeated with great slaughter. The saint was full of remorse and as penance went into exile and vowed never to set foot on Irish soil again. At a later date when he had to return to Ireland for a synod, Columba strapped sods of earth from his abbey in Iona to his feet, thus enabling him to keep his word. Diarmait's adverse judgment concerning the copy Columba had secretly made of St. Finnian's psalter. Columba is said to have supported by his prayers the men of the North who were fighting while Finnian did the same for Diarmait's men. The latter were defeated with a loss of three thousand.
Columba refused him. Finnian appealed to the High King of Ireland who gave the judgement, "To every cow its calf". Columba caused a battle to be fought against the King who was defeated with great slaughter. The saint was full of remorse and as penance went into exile and vowed never to set foot on Irish soil again. At a later date when he had to return to Ireland for a synod, Columba strapped sods of earth from his abbey in Iona to his feet, thus enabling him to keep his word. Diarmait's adverse judgment concerning the copy Columba had secretly made of St. Finnian's psalter. Columba is said to have supported by his prayers the men of the North who were fighting while Finnian did the same for Diarmait's men. The latter were defeated with a loss of three thousand.
