It has been a little while since my last blog post on open learning because we have been very busy here with some exciting things!
Our taskforce has been working on sharing all of the wonderful things we have learned from taking the Openness in Education course. We first presented a poster at Empire State College's "All College Conference" back on March 28th on Open Education Resources. Then on April 28th, we gave a presentation titled "Lesson's Learned: An Experience in Open Education" at Empire State College's Center for Distance Learning (CDL) Conference. We had a great time at this presentation and were able to share what we have learned with the college community. We even created a hands-on version of David Wiley's OER remix game for this audience. Most of the work for this version of the game should be created to Claire Miller, one of our Instructional Designers who has also been working on this taskforce.
We are taking this on the road now! You can see us next at SUNY CIT (Conference on Instruction and Technology) on Wednesday May 30th from 8:30-9:45 where several us will present "Open Education and a Study
Group Approach to Understanding It". We will discuss our experience with the course, how we approached it as a team using face-to-face meetings, and what we learned about open education. We will also play our version of the game if time permits. We hope to have lively conversations!
As soon as we return from CIT Michele Ogle and myself will have a brief presentation at the Capital District Educational Technology Group meeting on open education and how we can use it in our science, math, and technology courses. Michele is an assistant area coordinator and math faculty member. We are working together on developing an online precalculus course this development cycle. This short presentation will mostly focus on those areas of open eduction that is most relevant for this group, such as where to find OER's, licensing, encouraging the creation and sharing of OER's, and challenges we have found along the way.
I am also in the process of developing a WikiEducator page for our group where we will be sharing what we learned along with our poster, PowerPoint presentations, and links to documents for the game. As soon as it is complete I will post a link to it!
