The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and open access assessment (OAA). It notes that from an independent learner's perspective, almost anything could be considered an OER. Quality and licensing are mentioned as important considerations for OER. The document raises questions about controlling quality in open environments, the purpose of licensing, and alternative approaches to accreditation beyond traditional institutions. Digital badges and reputation are presented as possible methods for open assessment and recognizing accomplishments.

1. OER + OAA²
Peter Rawsthorne
@prawsthorne
Backchannel: #OAA2
Absolutely no rights reserved...

2. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Access Assessment (OAA)
Open Access Accreditation (OAA)

3. Life Long Learner
•Capilano College - CMPT Graduate 1990
•BCIT - B.Tech Graduate 1996
•JIBC - Conflict Resolution 1997
•Memorial - M.Ed IT 2007
•#NoPhD - Networked & Open PhD ongoing

4. Straddling two career paths
•20 years in technology
Mozilla, Protexis, Fincentric, UBC, BCAA, CLEBC, ICBC
, Ritchie Bros., AppNovation, Xantrex, VFS
•15 years in teaching
Capilano College, BCIT, Memorial
University, Wikiversity, COL, WikiEducator, CLEBC
•I still alternate between the two

5. Setting out to inspire adult learners.
Pedagogy, technology and life-long
learning from outside the institutions.
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/

6. What is Open?

7. What is Access?

9. Free (as in beer)
Where anybody can
consume, access and
modify
•Source code
•Educational
resources
•Other

10. What are Open Educational
Resources (OER)?
•As far as I am concerned, absolutely
everything!
•Caveat, this is from the perspective of the
independent self-directed learner.
•This is different for anything organized.

11. Wikis, books, rich-
media, internet, everything…

12. In my experience with OER, it
seems to come down to quality
and licensing.

13. How do you control the “quality” of
something developed in the open?
• Featured articles,
• liking, +1, traffic, reuse… etc.
•these are social.
•What other ways are available?

14. What is the point of licensing?
Who does it protect?
in the learning context, why does licensing matter…
really?

15. What is it about the independent
self-directed learner?
•Fair-dealing - Canada
•Fair-use – US
•There is No case law!!!!
•Even with Bill C-11
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6588/125/

16. What/when is the end point for OER?
•Some people say 30 years...
•Some say 10...
•Does the question even make sense?
•What is the point of OER?

17. How do YOU assess a person’s
knowledge about something?

18. How should WE be assessed on
our learning / depth of learning?

19. Where do you go for expert
knowledge? How do you assess
expertise?
?

20. What about social search and
reputation?

21. How could we create an Open
Assessment approach?

22. How do we represent
accomplishments?

23. Currently there are a plethora of
approaches toward accreditation.

24. What are the alternative methods to
recognizing accomplishments,
accreditation, and mastery?

25. Welcome Digital Badges

27. Mozilla Open Badges
This project is mostly about;
 Creating open source
 Promoting an idea
 Facilitating a discussion
 Advancing a meta-data specification

28. oer
digital
badges

29. The go-cart badge

30. full circle.
Setting out to inspire adult learners.
Pedagogy, technology and life-long
learning from outside the institutions.
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/

31. Meta-cognition is really
important.
Mindfulness, self-awareness and action.
How do you learn?
Two themes...
Metacognitive Knowledge – reflecting on what we know.
Metacognitive Regulating – directing our learning.
http://www.learner.org/courses/learningclassroom/support/09_metacog.pdf

32. William Pinar
Allegories of the Present: Curriculum Development in
a Culture of Narcissism and Presentism"
http://vimeo.com/28393833
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/01/personal-curriculum-mapping-pcm.html

33. This leads to personal
curriculum mapping.
Why shouldn't we create our own
personal curriculum?
Back to the go-kart badge ;)
Blended is the way!!!!!
Connected learning offers much!

34. Thank-you!

35. http://www.flickr.com/photos/muffinman71xx/2940776723/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/perspective/6902715355
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyougushi/1743315042/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijansch/6817605405/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opclub/577057725/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thievingjoker/4935975049/