Slide presentation for MSL4206

1. Open Education
Building resources for the open community
MSL4206
Vanessa Camilleri

2. Outline
• Open Education – the two faces
• Open Education – timelines & events
• OERs – the 4 R’s
• Open Education – Myths
• Some case examples – how to use OE for personal and
class learning
• Time on Task – Open reflections

3. Open Education – two faces
http://www.clipcanvas.com/video-footage/gfx-graphics-neural-network-human-7728.html

4. Open Education
• Use for classroom-based teaching and
learning;
• Use for personal learning;
• Two facets of community needs – the
‘PROSUMER’ view;

5. The 4 R’s
• Reuse;
• Redistribute;
• Revise;
• Remix;

6. Image taken from:
https://openeducationalreso
urces.pbworks.com/w/page
/25228307/OER%20Myths

7. Open Education - Myths
• What is sharing?
• The Open ‘Content’ view – are we sharing
content or language?
• What is the role of semantics, context and
serendipity in learning?

8. Is what is being said, that which is being
understood?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24752578@N02/5589897831/

9. Some Case Examples

10. Some Case Examples

11. Time on Task
• Start by choosing one of the sites: Khan
Academy or MIT OpenCourseware. Visit
one of them and with a colleague, start
working out some tasks, view videos, and
take time to explore it.
• Take 15 mins;
• Use another 15 mins to blog about your
experience;

12. Time on Task
• You have 5 minutes to describe and present
your reflective assignment – you can share
your views, thoughts, work-in-progress or
difficulties;
• You have 5 minutes at the end, to give
written feedback using the MOODLE
VLE;

13. Time on Task
• The 30second deal – you have 30 seconds
(no more no less) to tweet what you
remember most from this session;

14. Thank you Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt
Openness:
the real act of working together
BritneyRankin