Cite as: F. Questier, Open learning, Experiences from the MarMOOC project, Presented at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, February 2019

1. Open learning
Experiences from the MarMOOC project
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Presented at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, 27th
of February 2019
in the Workshop Educational Design of Moodle Supported Courses
Project No. 573583-EPP-1-2016-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (2016-2558/001-001)

2. Participants Workshop Educational Design of Moodle Supported Courses
February 2019 at Bahir Dar University

3. MarMOOC partners
➢ .ma edu ministry
➢ 6 .ma universities
➢ 6 .eu universities
www.MarMOOC.net

4. Teachers and technologists
working together

6. Yuan, Li, and Stephen Powell. MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education White Paper.
University of Bolton: CETIS, 2013. CC-BY 3.0 Update:http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/cetisli/2015/05/11/moocs-and-open-education-timeline-updated/
MOOC history

7. The range of “opens”, from e-InfraNet: ‘Open’ as the default modus operandi for research and higher education, CC-BY-SA 3.0

8. Openness in MOOC?
➢ Open access
➢ Open process
➢ Open educational resources
➢ Open licenses
➢ Open standards
➢ Open source software
➢ Open pedagogy

9. Open pedagogy?
cMOOC
➢ Connectivisme – Constructivisme
➢ Knowledge creation by
participants
➢ Group work
➢ Distributed interactions, blogs
➢ Interdisciplinarity
➢ Self-evaluation
xMOOC
➢ Instructionism
➢ Knowledge transfer by teacher
➢ Videos
➢ Forum
➢ Disciplinarity
➢ Online tests

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"The most fundamental
way of helping other
people,
is to teach people
how to do things better
or how to better their
lives.
For people
who use computers,
this means sharing
the recipes
you use on your
computer,
in other words
the programs you run."

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1980's: Stallman defined
“Free Software”
The freedom to
➢
use
➢
study
➢
share
➢
improve
the program

12. 1998: “Open Source” sounds
better than “Free Software”?

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The software Freedoms
require access to the source code
→
“Open Source Software” (OSS)
Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
Spanish: “Software Libre”

14. Software categories
➢ Anti-features are features that users don’t want, including:
➢ Copy-protection
➢ DRM = Digital Rights/Restrictions Management
➢ Data lock-in because of secret file formats
➢ Time-limit / Planned obsolescence
➢ Artificial limitations (e.g. limited RAM, HD and max 3 concurrent programs in MS Windows Vista Home)
➢ Advertisements
➢ Tracking / Spyware

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Free & Open Source Software

17. Free software for education
1. Institutional (server installation)
➢ Operating systems: Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris
➢ E-learning: Moodle, Chamilo, Dokeos, Open Edx
➢ E-learning authoring Xerte
➢ Portfolio Mahara
➢ Classroom conferencing BigBlueButton
➢ Video capture/distribution Opencast
➢ ...

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20. Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

25. Free software for education
2. Personal (teachers / students)
➢ Operating systems: Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris
➢ Text documents LibreOffice Writer, Latex
➢ Spreadsheets LibreOffice Calc
➢ Presentations LibreOffice Impress
➢ Drawings, Vector graphics LibreOffice Draw, Inkscape
➢ Photos, Raster graphics Gimp, Darktable
➢ Audio Audacity
➢ Video VLC, Kodi, OpenShot, ShotCut
➢ Concept/Mind maps FreeMind
➢ Statistics R, PSPP, Jasp
➢ Scientific calculations Octave, Scilab
➢ ...

26. File formats and software

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Content must be
searchable
accessible
interoperable
durable
reusable

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How?

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How?
Interoperability through standards
Searchable through metadata
Stored in
Learning Object Repositories (LOR)
Reusable by licence

30. OER
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello, licensed under CC BY 3.0

31. Open educational resources
(OER)
digitised materials
offered freely and openly
for educators, students and self-learners
to use and reuse
for teaching, learning and research

32. Believing that OER can
widen access to quality education,
particularly when shared by many countries
and higher education institutions,
UNESCO champions OER
as a means of promoting access, equity and quality
in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

33. Good teachers know how
to create learning materials
Great teachers know how
to mix and reuse

35. Reusable by license
www.creativecommons.org
➢ 6 combinations of
➢ Commercial – no commercial use allowed
➢ Modifications – no modifications allowed
➢ Sharealike – not sharealike

38. 3 “layers” of CC licences

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154265 (Flemish primary and secondary
school) teachers on sharing site

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S. Ternier et al., Interoperability for Searching Learning Object
Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language, D-Lib Magazine, 2008,
Volume 14 Number 1/2, doi:10.1045/january2008-ceri

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Available freely and openly at
http://www.mooc-quality.eu

55. How do people see your online course?
Your students?
Other students?
Other teachers?
Other staff
External people?

56. Werken met portfolio's
04/10/05 | pag. 68

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Restrictions in e-learning policies
examples
➢ 4.1.3. Students and Members of academic
staff have access to designated courses in
which they are involved.
➢ 4.2.3. Student access to courses will
continue by default for six (6) weeks after
the completion of the relevant semester.

58. Don'tinvestin(pay)walls
InvestinOpenness!

59. Additional copyright credits
➢ MOOC poster by Mathieu Plourde, licensed under CC BY 2.0
➢ MarMOOC logo and photos of meetings and training sessions
➢ Opencast by Sally CC-BY-NC-SA
➢ OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello, licensed under CC BY 3.0
➢ CC_License_Freedom_Scale_Chart by Romain CC-BY-SA
➢
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OpenIDvs.Pseudo-AuthenticationusingOAuth.svg CC0
➢ Social Icons by Iconshock http://www.iconshock.com/social-icons/

60. This presentation was made with 100% Free Software
No animals were harmed
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