TEACHING & LEARNING WITH OER

JAMISON R. MILLERTHE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY

REAL EDUCATIONAL UTOPIAS IN THE SPACE OF FLOWSTEACHING & LEARNING WITH OER

JAMISON R. MILLERTHE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY

HELLOI am Jamison MillerI am a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. My MA is in cultural geography, BA (Honors) is in urban geography, and AA in liberal arts. My first career was in museum photography.

You can find me at jrmiller@wm.edu, @millerjamison, jrmiller.us

The University of Mary Washington

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Jesse Stommel, Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Pedagogy Lab

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THEORY STUDENTS INSTRUCTORS

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THEORY

3 PAPER DISSERTATIONTHEORYWork through the application of “space of flows” (Castells, 2000) as the context for open education and “real utopias” (Olen Wright, 2010) as its practice.

OPEN EDUCATION IN THE SPACE OF FLOWSSociologist Manuel Castells has built a theoretical framework for our economies and society that are informational, global, and networked. He describes this as The Networked Society and identifies one of the defining attributes as the SPACE OF FLOWS, where “the material organization of social practices work through flows”.

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OPEN EDUCATION AS A REAL UTOPIASociologist Erik Olin Wright has built a theoretical framework for a CRITICAL and EMANCIPATORY approach in social science. He proposes developing accounts of viable alternatives to dominant institutions and social structures, or “real utopias”, that are based in principles of equality, democracy, and sustainability.

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STUDENT USE OF OERHow are students using OER in their coursework? What is learning like with OER? How does the use compare to non-open resources?

INSTRUCTOR USE OF OERHow are instructors implementing OER in their instruction? How is the adoption of OER (content) influencing pedagogy (practice)?

Results across multiple studies indicate that students generally achieve the same learning outcomes when OER are utilized and simultaneously save significant amounts of money.

(Hilton, 2016)

Evaluating the effects that OER have on learning is problematic for several reasons.

(Farrow, de los Arcos, Pitt, & Weller, 2015)

OER1. How are students learning with OER? What are they doing with them, how are

they using them? What, if any, affordances are leveraged by the “open” qualities of the resources?

2. How are instructors teaching with OER? Is open being leveraged beyond “gratis”? How?Is “open” entering into pedagogical practices, designs, or implementations? How?

PEDAGOGYIN

TEACHING & LEARNING WITH OERCASE(S) ∎ Z-Degree at Tidewater Community College ∎ zELI at Northern Virginia Community College

both built in collaboration with Lumen Learning

TEACHING & LEARNING WITH OERRESEARCH QUESTIONS∎ How are students using OER in their coursework? What

is learning like with OER? How does the use compare to non-open resources?

∎ How are instructors implementing OER in their instruction? How is the adoption of OER (content) influencing pedagogy (practice)?

TEACHING & LEARNING WITH OERTHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK(S) (Panke & Seufert, 2013)∎ Sociocultural theories∎ Cognitive information processing∎ Emotions, interest, and flow

TEACHING & LEARNING WITH OERMETHODOLOGY & METHODS∎ (Comparative) Case Study or Phenomenology/graphy∎ Surveys and document review∎ Observation, interviews, and focus groups

OER PEDAGOGY

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP?Is there evidence of a shift from pedagogies of scarcity to pedagogies of abundance? (Weller, 2011; 2014)

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REAL EDUCATIONAL UTOPIAS IN THE SPACE OF FLOWSTEACHING & LEARNING WITH OER

JAMISON R. MILLERTHE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY

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