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