JISC

e-Learning online conference 09 programme

Presentation and associated resources

This is in two parts.

• Listen to Part 1 online (17 mins), or download as an MP3 file (12Mb). This introductory section is mostly an edited version of an interview with Catherine Ngugi of OER Africa.
• Listen to Part 2 online (40 mins), or download as an MP3 file (28Mb).
• You can also still listen to Brian's teaser.
• And this is Brian's wiki with notes for the conference.

There was also a live Q and A session, in Elluminate.

• View the recorded Elluminate session
• Download the stand alone executable. (15Mb)

Abstract

There is plenty of good will and exciting activity associated with open education. Openness is increasingly seen as a desirable practice, even a "best practice", and promising new projects keep appearing. Then again, there are troubling signs that the business models for many open education projects are problematic and vulnerable. And for all the increases in the supply of open educational resources, there remain thorny questions on the demand side, we can point to little evidence of significant reuse. And while open education is increasingly spoken of as a movement, like all such movements there are significant divisions amongst its most passionate proponents concerning the vision and the application of open education. Is open education already in crisis? Or are these ordinary growing pains on the way to achieving enduring change? This session will consider these questions through multiple voices, including many drawn from last summer’s Open Education Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Presenter

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb is Manager, Emerging Technologies and Digital Content for The University of British Columbia’s Office of Learning Technology. He also teaches a course on "Text Technologies: The Changing Spaces of Reading and Writing" for UBC's Master of Educational Technology program. He founded one of the earliest hosted services for blogs and wikis at a higher education institution in 2004. He’s been a Research Fellow at Utah State University’s Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL), and a Visiting Researcher at Barcelona’s Open University of Catalonia. He mutters ill-tempered observations on social learning, open education, disruptive technologies and other such things on his weblog, Abject Learning.

 

 

Facilitator

Andy Lane

Professor Andy Lane has been at the Open University since 1983 and held various offices in the former Technology Faculty including being Head of the Systems Department, associate Dean and Dean. Promoted to Professor of Environmental Systems in 2005, Andy was appointed as Director of The Open University’s OpenLearn Initiative in 2006 and was elected as a Board member of the Open CourseWare Consortium in 2008. He has authored or co-authored many publications dealing with systems of open education, especially the use of Open Educational Resources.