{"id":276,"date":"2015-03-31T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/teachingen\/part\/10-trends-in-open-education\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:24:20","slug":"10-trends-in-open-education","status":"web-only","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/teachingen\/part\/10-trends-in-open-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 10: Trends in open education"},"content":{"raw":"\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\n<h3>The purpose of this chapter<\/h3>\n<p>When you have completed this chapter you should be able to determine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how&nbsp;your&nbsp;role as an instructor is likely to be changed by developments in open learning;<\/li>\n<li>when you should create your&nbsp;own material and when you should use open educational resources;<\/li>\n<li>how to maximise the use of digital materials once created.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;What is covered in this chapter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/scenario-f-watershed-management\/\">Scenario H: Watershed management<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-4-open-education\/\">10.1 Open learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/oer\/\">10.2 Open educational resources (OER)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-8-open-textbooks\/\">10.3 Open textbooks, open research and open data<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-10-the-implications-of-open-for-course-and-program-design\/\">10.4 The implications of 'open' for course and program design: towards a paradigm shift?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also in this chapter you will find the following activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Activity 10.1 Should access to post-secondary education be completely open to anyone?<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.2 Deciding on OER<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.3 Using other open resources<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.4 Build your own scenario<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-success\">\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<p>1. Open educational resources offer many benefits but they need to be well designed and embedded within a rich learning environment to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>2. The increasing availability of OER, open textbooks, open research and open data means that in future, almost all academic content will be open and freely accessible over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>3. As a result, students will increasingly look to institutions for learning support and help with the development of skills needed in a digital age rather than with the delivery of content. This will have major consequences for the role of teachers\/instructors and the design of courses.<\/p>\n<p>4. OER and other forms of open education will lead to increased modularization and disaggregation of learning services, which are&nbsp;needed to respond to the increasing diversity of learner needs in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp;<span>MOOCs are essentially a dead end with regard to providing learners who do not have adequate access to education with high quality qualifications. The main value of MOOCs is&nbsp;in providing opportunities for non-formal education and supporting communities of practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6. OER, MOOCs, open textbooks and other digital forms of open-ness are important in helping to widen access to learning opportunities, but ultimately these are enhancements rather than a replacement for a well-funded public education system, which remains the core foundation for enabling equal access to educational opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","rendered":"<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-highlight\">\n<h3>The purpose of this chapter<\/h3>\n<p>When you have completed this chapter you should be able to determine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how&nbsp;your&nbsp;role as an instructor is likely to be changed by developments in open learning;<\/li>\n<li>when you should create your&nbsp;own material and when you should use open educational resources;<\/li>\n<li>how to maximise the use of digital materials once created.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;What is covered in this chapter<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/scenario-f-watershed-management\/\">Scenario H: Watershed management<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-4-open-education\/\">10.1 Open learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/oer\/\">10.2 Open educational resources (OER)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-8-open-textbooks\/\">10.3 Open textbooks, open research and open data<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter type-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/10-10-the-implications-of-open-for-course-and-program-design\/\">10.4 The implications of &#8216;open&#8217; for course and program design: towards a paradigm shift?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also in this chapter you will find the following activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Activity 10.1 Should access to post-secondary education be completely open to anyone?<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.2 Deciding on OER<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.3 Using other open resources<\/li>\n<li>Activity 10.4 Build your own scenario<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bcc-box bcc-success\">\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<p>1. 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OER and other forms of open education will lead to increased modularization and disaggregation of learning services, which are&nbsp;needed to respond to the increasing diversity of learner needs in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp;MOOCs are essentially a dead end with regard to providing learners who do not have adequate access to education with high quality qualifications. The main value of MOOCs is&nbsp;in providing opportunities for non-formal education and supporting communities of practice.<\/p>\n<p>6. 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