Presentation of Perspectives of Students in Taking Responsibility over Open Courseware at the Online Educa Berlin Conference by Fred Truyen.

1. Student’s Agency in Open
Courseware: Perspectives of
Students in Taking
Responsibility over Open
Courseware
Frederik TRUYEN
KU Leuven

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3. Preparing for the mobile knowledge worker

4. Knowledge economy
Learning economy
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Creative economy
Charles Open knowledge
Landry, John economy
Howkins, Richard Yochai Benkler
Florida
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity
and Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.

5. The New Creativity
o User-generated content
o The Long Tail
o Folksonomies, Social Bookmarking
o Syndication, mashups
o Crowd Sourcing, hacking

6. Knowledge views
Traditional view Today
• Knowledge is a • Knowledge as a task
requirement • Knowledge as
• Knowledge is a commodity responsibility
• Knowledge is an effect • Knowledge as a resource
• Knowledge is measured in • Knowledge as an asset
output • Knowledge as a matrix

7. New visions on Learning
• George Siemens, Stephen Knowles stress the
collaborative creation of knowledge in a network
(Connectivism)
• Harry Collins highlights the importance of tacit
knowledge and interactive expertise
• Importance of informal learning, on-the job
learning, LLL

8. Openness as a motor for
change
• Open Source, Open Access and Open Content
 Give a quality guarantee
 Enable sustainable knowledge
 Stimulate knowledge development through
reuse
 Enlarge the user group and the creation of
meaning

9. The 4 R's of Openness
o Reuse—The most basic level of openness. People are allowed to
use all or part of the work for their own purposes (e.g. download an
educational video to watch at a later time).
o Redistribute—People can share the work with others (e.g. email a
digital article to a colleague).
o Revise—People can adapt, modify, translate, or change the form the
work (e.g. take a book written in English and turn it into a Spanish
audio book).
o Remix—People can take two or more existing resources and
combine them to create a new resource (e.g. take audio lectures
from one course and combine them with slides from another course
to create a new derivative work).
David Whiley

10. Virtual Student Mobility
• To broaden opportunities and widening participation in
mobility, virtual mobility is a cost-effective addendum to
physical mobility.
o Take courses virtually abroad
o Take a course at home while abroad
o Follow joint courses virtually offered by university
networks (networked curricula)
o “Assembling” a course from different sources /
viewpoints

11. Scenarios in Open CourseWare for Student
Mobility
• Depending on study phase
o Study selection
o Preparation
o Actual Study phase
o Life Long Learning
• Personal Learning Environment
• Special Needs
• Globalization of content

12. Widening Participation
• From participation in education to participation in
knowledge development and the creation of
meaning
• Reaching out to professional communities
• Connecting with other professional practices
• Bridging Cultures
• Building the Knowledge Society
• Fostering the Creative Class

13. Widening Transparency
• A course ≠ a Wikipedia article
• Content not the only issue
• A course explains how to learn
• Introduces you to the field and the people involved
• Opens up professional practices to outsiders

14. Widening Transparency
• Open courses should be transparent about their
motives, goals, the pedagogic vision involved, their link
to the communities of practice supporting the knowledge
domain

15. Open Courses are Gateways
Practices get
public Broader
validation audience gets
access

17. Reframing Resources
• Open Educational Resources
go beyond Learning materials
and involve the stakeholder communities
and key actors involved in the creation of relevant
knowledge
• The ultimate Open Educational Resource
is part of the social network that warrants the supply
chain, validates the knowledge claims, and makes it
sustainable and fosters its growth

18. Mobility means Empowerment
• Students should be set free of their educators and
educational content by:
o Having alternatives
o Being able to challenge / confront
o Being able to contribute / change / adapt
o Defining their own learning path
o Taking control of their curriculum
o Integrate the course in their own learning space