Presentation at #oer16

1. Reframing Open in the Context
of the Digital University
Sheila MacNeill
Keith Smyth
Bill Johnston
#OER16

2. Problem

3. "despite the early promise of open online
education, including developments such as
MOOCs, the Higher Education sector as a whole
has fallen short in using digital spaces to provide
equitable distribution of access to education."

4. "the sheer scale of numbers of students led to bold
proclamations of education disruption and a sector on
the verge of systemic change. However, from the
perspective of 2015, these statements appear
increasingly erroneous as MOOCs have proven to be
simply an additional learning opportunity instead of a
direct challenge to higher education itself."
(Siemens et al 2015)

5. "areas in need of exploration include faculty
development, organizational change, innovative
practices and new institutional models,
effectiveness of teaching and learning activities,
the student experience, increasing success for all
students, and state and provincial policies,
strategies, and funding models."
(Siemens et al 2015)

6. Conceptualising the Digital University

8. 'Third space' thinking

13. Curriculum as a co-located space

15. Reframing 'open' in the context of
the Digital University

16. ?

17. Potential research implications

18. https://chrissinerantzi.
wordpress.com/
http://go-gn.net/

19. Our next steps

20. Reframing open in the context of the Digital University
Part 1 https://howsheilaseesit.wordpress.com
Part 2 https://3eeducation.org