1. Open Education: Into the Future
10th April 2019
OER19
Eamon Costello, Gráinne Conole, Mark Brown
Dublin City University
2. Affordances of digital technologies
−Phases:
− Cultural
− Symbolic
− Communication
− Networked
− Cyber-infrastructure
−Affordances
− Differ according to the
technology, context and use
− Internet most disruptive
technology of last 50 years
https://bit.ly/2O4lngx
3. Opportunities
• Technologies can:
• Enable more interaction &
communication
• Help with retention
• Be engaging & motivational
• Extend the classroom
• Provide timely and targeted feedback
• Personalise the learning experience
• BUT: technology is not a single entity; no
single all-encompassing answer can be
provided to the question of impact on
educational outcomes
4. Top ten trends
− Place an important part of identity
− Connect parents/learners
− Permeable boundaries
− Shift in ownership
− Learners map their pathway
− Abundance of data and AI
− Changing nature of work
− Rethink success
− Impact on health and wellbeing
− Connect the past to the present
http://www.core-ed.org/research-and-innovation/ten-trends/
5. Open practices
− Opening up education
− Facets
− OER
− MOOCs
− E-textbooks
− Use of open practices
complex, personalised
and contextual (Cronin)
− Continuum of openness
and access (Olcott)
https://bit.ly/2gchbww
6. Impact
− Learners
− OER (Wiley’s 5 Rs)
− MOOCs (learning at scale)
− E-textbooks (flexible & cost effective)
− Teachers
− New approaches to design
− MOOCs for CPD
− Researchers
− Data-intensive collaborative research
− Social media
− Open scholarship
https://bit.ly/2VBvFch
7. Future of open learning: challenges
− Lack of digital literacies
− Teaching the poor sister
− New forms of
accreditation
− Senior management
buy-in
− Appropriate CPD
− Unbundling of education
http://e4innovation.com/?p=938
8. Empower staff to create, discover and engage in meaningful
personal and professional development
(National Forum, 2016)
Orna Farrell
9. Textbooks
• What do they cost?
• What do our students think?
• What do Irish HE staff think?
13. Total new cost of books per year
3.96 books per course
$224.41 per course
8.05 courses per year
Cost per year of $1,806.50
14. Availability/Access (n = 2,940 books)
0.00%
20.00%
40.00%
60.00%
80.00%
100.00%
PDF
Available
Ebook
Available
Public
Domain
6 books
(0.18%)
15.
16.
17. ”I am willing to go for digital copies, if I
can get it without paying for it, but my
preference would be a hard copy that I
can own, that I can highlight and make
notes in, that would be my preference”
What do students think?
18. preference.
“… If they're quite marked it
doesn't work for me: I need it to be
clean, with no other people's
writing on it, even a library book
you know, if somebody's written all
over it, is not gonna work.”
19. “… Sometimes I’d wait and see if I
think I'm going to use this, especially
in my first year, I went to the library
and if the book had a teeny-weeny
print that I know I'm not gonna be
able to read anyway I'm not gonna
buy it because I know I'm not gonna
ever look at it you know.”