1. Open Education Practices at universities
in Hokkaido
Katsusuke Shigeta
Information Initiative Center,
Hokkaido University

2. Overview
• Current status of open education projects at
Hokkaido University
• Ongoing OER project at Hokkaido University
– ACE (Academic Commons for Education)
• Prospective outcomes

3. HU-OCW
http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/
• Course materials
and videos
• Extension lectures

4. Hokkaido Univ. iTunes U
• Video materials
from HU-OCW

5. OER project around Hokkaido university
• Create liberal arts courses for university-wide
education program on 7 public universities at
Hokkaido area
– Utilize videoconferencing system connects 7
universities
– Funded by Ministry of Education
• Develop education methods to utilize OER on
campus education to improve student
engagement and learning outcomes
– Flipped classroom and active learning

6. Backgrounds(1)
Challenges in Hokkaido area
• Diversify liberal arts education for cooperation
of universities in Hokkaido
– Specializing universities (agriculture, engineering)
• Difficulty to support variety of liberal arts
education on each universities
– Second language courses
• Realize opportunities for students to learn
diverse courses
– Utilize distinctive features of universities

7. Backgrounds(2)
Improvement of education using OER
• Improvement in quality for OER
– Share and reuse learning materials in community
– cf. Project Kaleidoscope
• Faculty development
– Continuous collaboration of faculty to develop
OER
• Student participation for development
– Learning opportunity for coming faculty
– cf. dScribe on Michigan U.

8. Backgrounds(3)
Improve learning outcomes using OER
• Flipped classroom
– Using learning materials for preparation
– Activity to “use” knowledge in classroom
– Effects to improve student outcomes and reduce
drop-out rate
The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head - http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

9. Cooperation of universities in Hokkaido
• Utilize distance learning
– Videoconferencing system
– Special classroom for active learning
• Improve student outcomes
– Overcome challenges to increase effectiveness of
distance learning
Introduce
active
learning
18th century
20th century

10. Our plan (FY 2013-)
• Create “OER Repository” to share course
materials
– Video materials, e-textbooks, quizzes, etc.
– Based on
Open edX
with
localization
– Create model
courses
(4 courses / year)

11. Our plan (FY 2014-)
• Learning materials (MOOC-type contents)
– Applied ethics / Earth and space science /
Digital Literacy / Environmental radioactivity
– Made by Hokkaido Univ. in 2013, by other univ.
after 2014
• Pilot courses from 2nd semester 2014
– Introduce flipped classroom and active learning
• Support materials for faculty (website)
– Create start-up guide for faculty
– Guide for flipped classroom and active learning

12. Planning of OER
• “MOOC-type” learning materials
– Short videos + quizzes
– Structured materials based on instructional design
• Use in classroom
– Materials for
flipped classroom
– Supplement materials
for unprepared
students

13. Production of OER
• Studio production
• Teaching Assistant support
– as Subject Matter Experts
• Professionals
– Instructional designer
– Video producer
– Copyright clearance
• Creative commons
license
– CC-BY-NC

14. Our plan (FY 2015-)
• Open OERs as MOOC courses and OCW
– Select superior courses from developed courses

15. OER Repository
• Academic For Education (ACE)
– Open April 2014
• Open edX based platform
– Advantages of “portability”
– Link to SSO system
on campus

16. Prospective Outcomes
• Realize diversity of liberal arts education
• Improve effectiveness of distance learning
among universities
• Dissemination of open educational resources
• Increase learning opportunities to open
MOOC
• Promotion and internationalization
– Open moocs in English

17. Open Education Practices at universities
in Hokkaido
Katsusuke Shigeta
Information Initiative Center,
Hokkaido University