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Open Education Practices at universities in Hokkaido
Katsusuke ShigetaInformation Initiative Center,
Hokkaido University
Overview
• Current status of open education projects atHokkaido University
• Ongoing OER project at Hokkaido University– ACE (Academic Commons for Education)
• Prospective outcomes
HU-OCW http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/
• Course materials and videos
• Extension lectures
Hokkaido Univ. iTunes U
• Video materials from HU-OCW
OER project around Hokkaido university
• Create liberal arts courses for university-wide education program on 7 public universities at Hokkaido area– Utilize videoconferencing system connects 7
universities– Funded by Ministry of Education
• Develop education methods to utilize OER on campus education to improve student engagement and learning outcomes– Flipped classroom and active learning
Backgrounds(1)Challenges in Hokkaido area
• Diversify liberal arts education for cooperation of universities in Hokkaido– Specializing universities (agriculture, engineering)
• Difficulty to support variety of liberal arts education on each universities– Second language courses
• Realize opportunities for students to learn diverse courses– Utilize distinctive features of universities
Backgrounds(2)Improvement of education using OER
• Improvement in quality for OER– Share and reuse learning materials in community– cf. Project Kaleidoscope
• Faculty development– Continuous collaboration of faculty to develop
OER• Student participation for development
– Learning opportunity for coming faculty– cf. dScribe on Michigan U.
Backgrounds(3)Improve learning outcomes using OER
• Flipped classroom– Using learning materials for preparation– Activity to “use” knowledge in classroom– Effects to improve student outcomes and reduce
drop-out rate
The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head - http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
Cooperation of universities in Hokkaido
• Utilize distance learning– Videoconferencing system– Special classroom for active learning
• Improve student outcomes– Overcome challenges to increase effectiveness of
distance learning
18th century 20th century 21st century
Introduce active
learning
Our plan (FY 2013-)
• Create “OER Repository” to share course materials– Video materials, e-textbooks, quizzes, etc.– Based on
Open edXwithlocalization
– Create modelcourses(4 courses / year)
Our plan (FY 2014-)
• Learning materials (MOOC-type contents)– Applied ethics / Earth and space science /
Digital Literacy / Environmental radioactivity– Made by Hokkaido Univ. in 2013, by other univ.
after 2014• Pilot courses from 2nd semester 2014
– Introduce flipped classroom and active learning• Support materials for faculty (website)
– Create start-up guide for faculty– Guide for flipped classroom and active learning
Planning of OER
• “MOOC-type” learning materials– Short videos + quizzes– Structured materials based on instructional design
• Use in classroom– Materials for
flipped classroom– Supplement materials
for unprepared students
Production of OER
• Studio production• Teaching Assistant support
– as Subject Matter Experts• Professionals
– Instructional designer– Video producer– Copyright clearance
• Creative commonslicense– CC-BY-NC
Our plan (FY 2015-)
• Open OERs as MOOC courses and OCW– Select superior courses from developed courses
OER Repository
• Academic For Education (ACE)– Open April 2014
• Open edX based platform– Advantages of “portability”– Link to SSO system
on campus
Prospective Outcomes
• Realize diversity of liberal arts education• Improve effectiveness of distance learning
among universities• Dissemination of open educational resources• Increase learning opportunities to open
MOOC• Promotion and internationalization
– Open moocs in English
Open Education Practices at universities in Hokkaido
Katsusuke ShigetaInformation Initiative Center,
Hokkaido University