This document summarizes the WLA 2014 Mid-Winter Conference which focused on promoting access to open and online learning through metaliteracy. It provides details on keynote speaker Tom Mackey who discussed metaliteracy and how it empowers learners to participate in interactive online environments. The document also summarizes various MOOCs on metaliteracy offered through SUNY Empire State College that saw hundreds of registrants and engagement in online discussions and blogs.
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Promoting Access for All with Open and Online Learning
1. WLA 2014 Mid-Winter Conference
Promoting Access for All
with Open and Online
Learning #metaliteracy
Tom Mackey, Ph.D.
Dean
Center for Distance Learning
SUNY Empire State College
10:45-11:45
November 18, 2013
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Gateway Center, Westchester Community College
5. Creators and Curators
• Creators: “54% of adult internet users post
original photos or videos online that they
themselves have created.”
• Curators: “47% of adult internet users take
photos or videos that they have found online
and repost them on sites designed for sharing
images with many people.”
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Photos-and-videos/Main-Findings.aspx
6. Social Media Update
2013
• “73% of online adults now use social
networking sites”
• “42% of online adults now use multiple social
networking sites.”
• “71% of online adults are now Facebook
users, a slight increase from the 67% of online
adults who used Facebook as of late 2012.”
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-Media-Update/Main-Findings.aspx
8. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
“Over 6.7 million students
were taking at least one
online course during the
fall 2011 term, an increase
of 570,000 students over
the previous year.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online
9. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
“Thirty-two percent of higher
education students now take at
least one course online.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online
10. "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
“Seventy-seven percent
of academic leaders rate
the learning outcomes in
online education as the
same or superior to those
in face-to-face classes.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/news_press/january2013_new-study-over-67-million-students-learning-online
12. 2012 Paris OER Declaration
“Bridge the digital divide by developing
adequate infrastructure, in particular,
affordable broadband connectivity,
widespread mobile technology and
reliable electrical power supply.”
“Improve media and information literacy
and encourage the development and use
of OER in open standard digital
formats.”
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/
Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf
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15. European Commission:
“More than one million or one in five 15-yearolds in Europe, as well as over 75 million
adults, lack basic reading and writing skills,
which makes it harder for them to find a job
and puts them at risk of social exclusion.”
“Focus on Literacy”
http://ec.europa.eu/education/focus/literacy_en.htm
24. “What, if anything,
can stop the
MOOC?”
Creative Commons
licensed picture at
Giulia Forsythe on Flickr
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25. George Siemens at MOOC Research Initiative Conference 2013 #MRI13
Alec Couros: https://twitter.com/courosa/status/408248664738377729/photo/1
26. “After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought”
Sebastian Thrun image by Stephen Lam/Reuters
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought.html
28. “The starting point of connectivism is the individual.
Personal knowledge is comprised of a network,
which feeds into organizations and institutions, which
in turn feed back into the network, and then continue
to provide learning to individual. This cycle of
knowledge development (personal to network to
organization) allows learners to remain current in
their field through the connections they have
formed.”
George Siemens
Connectivism:
A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
30. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
First MOOC in SUNY System
31. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
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492 registered participants
14 Registered for credit
13 undergraduates and 1 grad student completed
111 registered participant blogs
996 blog posts
136 tweets
36 discussions
Facebook group started by participants
32. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
Creativity and Multicultural
Communication
• CMC11 continued for Independent Study credit and for
open participation (through 2013)
• New speakers & original recordings; Google+ Hangouts
• Several international, non CDL participants joined the
Google+ Hangouts
• 354 participants recently registered for the newsletter
• 33 students registered to the MOOC for credit since the
original offering
• 15-20 original participants continued to contribute
33. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
VizMath MOOC
http://math.cdlprojects.com/
34. Dr. Betty Hurley Dasgupta and Carol Yeager
VizMath MOOC
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Only offered Fall 2012
88 registered participants (none for credit)
8 blogs registered with 4 blog posts
no longer active (stopped Dec 2012)
All presentation sessions are available on You Tube and
have had many viewings and downloads
http://math.cdlprojects.com/
39. “Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking
and collaboration in a digital age,
providing a comprehensive framework
to effectively participate in social media
and online communities.”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson “Reframing Information Literacy as a
Metaliteracy” College & Research Libraries. January 2011 72:62-78.
http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/1/62.full.pdf
40. “Metaliteracy
empowers learners to
participate in
interactive information
environments,
equipped with the
ability to continuously
reflect, change, and
contribute as critical
thinkers.”
(Jacobson and Mackey, Proposing
a Metaliteracy Model to Redefine
Information Literacy, 2013)
41. “Metaliteracy is not about introducing yet
another literacy format, but rather reinventing
an existing one, information literacy, the critical
foundation literacy that informs many others
while being flexible and adaptive enough to
evolve and change over time.”
Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacies to Empower Learners
(Mackey and Jacobson, 2014 forthcoming book).
48. MOOC
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554 registered participants
454 receiving newsletters
118 registered blogs
72 blog posts
Students from 3 Information Literacy Courses
at the University at Albany
• 1 Graduate Student at Empire State College
52. SUNY Complete
at Empire State College
• Data-driven outreach to SUNY students who
have stopped out with the aim of
reconnecting and completing their education
• Partnership with University at Albany
53. SUNY REAL
at Empire State College
• Lumina Foundation Grant
• Pilot a new scalable framework for Prior
Learning Assessment (PLA), open education,
and ePortfolios.
54. Online Programs Nominated for Open SUNY
MBA in Management
MBA in Management, Veteran's Pathway
MBA in Global Leadership
MA in Learning and Emerging Technologies
(MALET)
RN to BSN
MS in Nursing
BS BME Accounting
BS BME Human Resources Management
BS PAF Emergency Management
BS SMT Information Systems
From 2012 Paris OER Declaration: Emphasizing that the term Open Educational Resources (OER) was coined at UNESCO’s 2002 Forum on Open Courseware and designates “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. Open licensing is built within the existing framework of intellectual property rights as defined by relevant international conventions and respects the authorship of the work”;
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According to the latest PISA survey, the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment.
David Wiley and Ken Thanos, Bringham Young University “Taking a Leap of Faith”
Tom
The topic did not draw the audience we had hoped and those that did participate were not as active as we would have hoped
The topic did not draw the audience we had hoped and those that did participate were not as active as we would have hoped
Tom
Tom
This is our visual model to explain Metaliteracy (pause)
We see this as a flexible, circular model that builds on information literacy with new technologies and competencies (pause)
Metaliteracy expands information literacy to include the ability to produce, share, and collaborate in open learning and social media environments (pause)
Metaliteracy also includes a central focus on metacognition, or the ability to think about one’s thinking.
Today’s learner moves through these spheres from any direction rather than a traditional linear manner
Tom
Tom
Tom
This is our visual model to explain Metaliteracy (pause)
We see this as a flexible, circular model that builds on information literacy with new technologies and competencies (pause)
Metaliteracy expands information literacy to include the ability to produce, share, and collaborate in open learning and social media environments (pause)
Metaliteracy also includes a central focus on metacognition, or the ability to think about one’s thinking.
Today’s learner moves through these spheres from any direction rather than a traditional linear manner
On behalf of Complete SUNY and OPEN SUNY, SUNY Empire State College is contacting stop outs to ask them to return to a SUNY college or university. During the pilot phase of the project, SUNY Empire State College and SUNY Albany will be the first two campuses that will participate. Will the help of the Complete SUNY Program Advisor, students will choose the best method of study (including online, face-to-face, and independent study) to complete their degree. As the program grows, we hope that students will continue to take advantage of SUNY Empire State College and SUNY Learning Network’s online resources to finish their education.
On behalf of SUNY REAL and OPEN SUNY, SUNY Empire State College is creating and piloting a framework to assess university-level learning regardless of where, when, or how it was acquired. Through a Lumina Foundation grant, this framework will be evaluated by assessing student learning gained through six Saylor Foundation open educational resources. The process will be using the principles and practices of prior learning assessment, open education, and eportfolios. Through a TAACCCT grant, SUNY Empire State College will be assisting communities colleges as they design policies, procedures, and practices for assessing, transcripting, and transferring prior learning assessment. Through these two initiatives, we hope to start building the foundation of SUNY REAL and OPEN SUNY.