Breaking Boundaries > Broadening Access > OERs and MOOCs Webinar > February 20 2014 > Noon - 1:00 PM (ET)

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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This seminar will explore the role of technologies in increasing access to information and educational opportunities. It will engage particularly with the role of Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) OER, MOOCs and the promise of broadening access to education



Speakers: Professor Grainne Conole, Dr Rebecca Eynon & Sarah Porter



 Thursday 20th February 2014
 Noon - 1:00 PM (ET)
 9:00 - 10 AM (GMT)
 Oxford Internet Institute



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 This seminar will focus on the use of ICTs for increasing access to educational opportunities for people who have been traditionally excluded from them, paying particular attention to the movement around articulated around the so-called Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs).



About the Speakers



Professor Grainne Conole / Director of the Institute of Learning Innovation at the University of Leicester

Gráinne Conole is Professor of learning innovation at the University of Leicester. [snip]



New open practices: the implications of OER and MOOCs for traditional educational institution



At the heart of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement is the vision that education is a fundamental human right and that educational resources should therefore be freely available. Promoted by organisations such as UNESCO and the Hewlett Foundation, there are now hundreds of OER repositories worldwide. In recent years we have seen the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which can be considered to be a structured mechanism for delivering OER, over a particular time period and through a structured learning pathway. The talk will highlight the key developments in OER and MOOC research. It will present a framework for benchmarking OER initiatives and developing a vision and roadmap for their future development, along with a new classification scheme for MOOCs.



Dr Rebecca Eynon / Senior Reserch Fellow at the OII and Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford



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Conceptualising interaction in MOOCs



While there has been a lot of attention about the potential for MOOCs to transform higher education, far less empirical research has been conducted that explores the experiences and behaviours of learners in these online settings. A particular strength of MOOCs is the potential for thousands of learners to come together to learn.  Understanding who interacts, how they interact, and why is an important part of understanding how learning may occur. This presentation aims to highlight the different ways in which people communicate and interact with one another in MOOCs, and how these interactions are related to learner characteristics, experiences and outcomes through the in-depth mixed method analysis of one case study MOOC. The findings discussed are those emerging from an ongoing study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. [snip]



Source and Links Available Via:



[ http://open-resources-librarian.blogspot.com/2014/02/breaking-boundaries-broadening-access.html ]



/Gerry



Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University

150 Parks Library

Ames IA 50011



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