“What we are teaching and the tools we are teaching it with are in dialogue; how we teach can be an example of what we teach.” – Jon Festinger

I recently had the opportunity to give a talk for the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer‘s Communications and Media Articulation Committee (CAMAC). When I was invited, I was given the rather non-specific topic of online education, copyright, and technology – which, to be honest, delighted me as these three areas are often the holy trifecta of open education. The general thread of my presentation was that:

• The future of education is not about information transmission but about scaffolding learning and knowledge building around information
• Open licenses (such as Creative Commons) provide a simple solution in contrast to the complexity involved in aspects of copyright
• Open education resource (OER) adoption and creation provide for the ability to build and improve the scaffolding of learning
• Open approaches are highly effective methods for enabling this learning
• The alignment of the student as owner of their learning and as collaborators in knowledge creation (e.g. the Student as Producer Model) is dependent on open approaches and open licenses
• Open technologies and an alignment with the open internet are necessary to enable effective use of both OER and open pedagogies

Most of this I’ve talked about before but enjoyed compiling some independent aspects into a single talk. Here are the slides from the presentation: