Dr. Verena Roberts and Helen DeWaard have been asked by Dr. David Vogt to jump into this class to give their insights about mobile learning from an open perspective. As former MET graduates and former students of Dr. Vogt, we will be replying to your posts and answering any questions you may have about open learning. You can learn more about Verena & Helen on the UBC ETS website, as we are both new Learning Designers with the UBC ETS team.
Or you can find us at:
Verena Roberts Twitter: @verenanz
Helen DeWaard Twitter: @hj_dewaard
We made a video for you to share our initial perspectives of “technology and openness”. We added links to the resources we mentioned below the video. We look forward to expanding our learning and perspectives with all of you!
Verena’s Links:
- Mozilla: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/
- Open Source Data Research Possibilities (article): https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Using-Data-to-Nurture.pdf
- Open Science Framework :https://www.cos.io/osf
- Open Source Technology & Esri: https://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring11articles/open-source-technology-and-esri.html
Helen’s links:
- Mozilla open leaders project: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/mozilla-open-leaders/
- Helen’s Mozilla open leaders project for Virtually Connecting https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/mozilla-open-leaders/round-6/projects/projects—cohort-d/
- An Urgency of Teachers by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris https://urgencyofteachers.com/
- Open Pedagogy Notebook: http://openpedagogy.org/
Kind regards,
Verena & Helen 🙂
Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you brought up the issues with IP and ownership since this is still very much an issue in open teaching and learning landscapes when trying to get others to understand what “open” is all about. The use of places like the Open Pedagogy Notebook isn’t necessary constricted by issues of IP or ownership, but more with limitations in time and initiative. As you mention, those who work in learning design, particularly with educators who are willing and eager to practice openly or share OER, the work becomes so demanding that the time to share resources, interesting ways of working and learning often don’t get shared further or farther. Knowing that something like the Open Notebook or even the OER Commons are available and open for contributions can be helpful in the long run. This course in itself could be linked to the Open Notebook for this unique way of open knowledge building.
Helen
Thank you for joining us and contributing your time, your expertise and your open enthusiasm for open learning and technology. What an exciting time to be studying education technology. It is becoming abundantly clear that we are likely experiences a monumental turning point in this field and every connection we make and every perspective we gain is golden. I am interested to learn about your thoughts on open forum discussion boards or community discussion platforms for educators that go beyond list serves, blogs and wikis. Helen’s source on the Open Pedagogy Notebook intrigued me and I starting to envision so many applications across different disciplines in higher education where I work. My question is… why aren’t open pedagogy notebooks like more widespread and how do we move the needle? Is it because of concerns over intellectual property rights and ownership of IP? When our faculty, along with the rest of the undergrad world, suddenly moved to entirely online teaching we hear murmurings of resistance from instructors reluctant to deliver their course material online; but in your experience would you say this is a real issue?
Once again thank you so much for sharing your valuable time. As learning designers and open educators your expertise must be in very high demand.