Open Learningor

I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

You can’t look back you can never look back.Don Henley

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aboutmattlaw/4140541929/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Why we learn.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruban/137421445/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpoll/2424765019/sizes/z/in/photostream/

The censor

The Censor

http://www.flickr.com/photos/draggin/200444235/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/euthman/490890040

Prepared to be a citizen.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/killfile/3344595791/

“The Board believes this environment calls for a much faster pace of change in administrative structure, in governance, in financial resource development and in resource prioritization and allocation. We do not believe we can even maintain our current standard under a model of incremental, marginal change. The world is simply moving too fast.”

Other Examples?

2 key trends

2008, 2009, 2011

Open online courses

Analytics

http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/learning-analytics-dream-nightmare-or-fairydust

Albany Technical College: The Student Tracking and Retention Services (STARS) Program is designed to serve high‐risk students by personally connecting them with counselors… The STARS program has increased the retention rate to 87% compared with rates prior to this intervention (68.3%), and STARS has also increased Academic Affairs and Student Affairs collaboration while generating new ideas and ways of helping students. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NGLC003.pdf

Little of column ALittle of column B

Pearson VUE delivers certification and licensure tests through the world’s largest network of test centers in 165 countries across the world.

Open learning innovation or

Business innovation?

1. allow for certificates of mastery to be earned by able learners

2. conducting significant research on how students learn.

Edxonline FAQ

“These [Online] offerings don't provide the same quality as in-class instruction.”David McAlpine, president of the board of directors for the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages USNews

Quality?Simple vs. Complex

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tojosan/176759844

Foundational

Quality is easily assessed.We can create a plan for foundational learning, or it will be created for us

Decision Making

Why do I teach?

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men [sic] and citizens” Thomas Jefferson

Prepare students for uncertainty

Rhizomatic learningEmbracing uncertainty

Community as the curriculumCheating as sharingStudent responsibility for decision making

The technology

• Allows them to collaborate in and out of class• Tracks them in open spaces• Allows them access to an indefinite amount of

content• Forces them to make decisions

The technology

• Allows them to collaborate out of class• Tracks them in open spaces• Allows them access to an indefinite amount of

contentAnd

• Discover like minded people• Participate in the field

http://edfuture.net/

October 8-November 16, 2012

1 Final Point

Either we decide what the new technology means… or someone else does.

@davecormier

Embrace uncertainty