Presentation shared by author at the 2016 EDEN Annual Conference "Re-Imagining Learning Environments" held on 14-17 June 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
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Strategic Leadership for OER - Melissa Highton #eden16
1. Strategic Leadership for
OER
Melissa Highton
Assistant Principal Online Learning
Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services
University of Edinburgh
@honeybhighton
17. Open licensing makes clear the distinction
between those resources that can be used
for ‘free’ and those that we are
‘free to do with what we choose’.
Adapted from: Masterman, L. & Wild, J.
(2011). OER Impact Study: Research Report.
JISC Open Educational Resources
programme.
18. Not being open is a risk and not being open
costs us money.
Take home message
24. Strategic Leadership for
OER
Melissa Highton
Assistant Principal Online Learning
Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services
University of Edinburgh
@honeybhighton
Editor's Notes
Opening up education:
initiatives, policies,
projects,
examples of good practices,
new business models and policies,
scalability
Playfair Library. Busts in the Playfair Library, Old College.
Since 2012 we now have a portfolio of 20 courses across all of our colleges in 14 schools
We have had more than 1 million sign-ups
80 ,000 statements of completion
6,000 certificates sold.
We have, I think a higher than average retention rate
Sign ups> to active learners 60%
Active learners> to completion 17% on average, but on some courses as high as 40%
Another 30 proposals from colleagues who would like to do MOOCs which signals the benefit in terms of capacity building and engagement with online learning in its many forms.
Because we now have a level of service to support the MOOCs and a good understanding of the costs, time, resource, approach to doing it successfully
We are now able to offer the option of making a MOOC to colleagues who wish to, particularly those writing research bids and hoping to secure funding.
We have several large research bids in progress in which the pathways to impact section of the research bid includes the design and delivery of a MOOC course.
We are also managing a fairly rapid turn around which provides the opportunity to translate new research quickly to large public audiences for engagement.
Latest in poultry research will reach a chicken near you in just a matter of weeks.
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MOOCs are a next logical step for us and very much in line with our tradition.
The role of a research university but also a CIVIC University in public life.
The reason I think this is important, is that successful universities
We constantly adapt and change in order to thrive and survive
You would expect us to make use of the most uptodate technology to do that.
Case study:
The areas in which MOOcs are taking us with regard to university strategic thinking
Partnerships
Approaches to global citizenship.
‘Town and Gown’ relations.
The value of an educated citizenry.
Changing approaches to on -campus teaching .