Talk:Outline of open educational resources

Getting started

Getting started with Outline pages as part of WIKISOO --ggatin (talk) 15:46, 10 September 2013 (UTC) Added a reference to a source about Heutagogy. --ggatin (talk) 16:04, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Citation help

Since there are a number of new Wikipedia contributors working on this page, here are a couple of useful resources for creating citations:

• How to create nicely formatted citations on Wikipedia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjj4zGTH7U
• "Cite Book" template with documentation: Template:Cite book

-Pete (talk) 16:27, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion captured from 2013 Week 6 class

open knowledge vs. public domain

• open knowledge would be the broader concept, to include practices that are inclusive as well as commonly owned, with public domain providing a specific focus on the issue of intellectual property

open learning vs. open education

• open learning = open education as the organizing principle

• does open learning imply informal, and open education imply formal?

• a single article should ultimately cover both

• the origins seem really different, with open ed being related more to institutions doing "open things" and open learning being tracked back to movements like Montessori. Clearly they could be re-defined as equal in principle, but I found that difference interesting.

• the beginning of the movement was often assumed to be MIT's launch of open materials in 2001 (see open education and open educational resources)

• Open education as a way to organize types of learning experiences that can emphasize access to traditional ed institutions (including Open University historically, MOOCs today), can emphasize open educational resources, and that can promote use of open educational resources in traditional settings or involve a a very broad commitment to open educational practices with specific goals such as open education for development/open learning for development

• perhaps we can ultimately better differentiate the open learning and open education articles to articulate the historical differences re terminology

hierarchy/ies of concepts

• leverage Communicate OER into new WikiProject Open, in synthesis with WikiProject Open Access and others

• OER DOES need to figure prominently. perhaps there are multiple hierarchies here

• a good help would be to go over how to keep this going (the open project) with reminders about how to get to various places to work on it.

Terms Definitions

MOOCs -- This term began with George Siemens' connectivist experiment of an online course in (2011?). The idea of a MOOC had come about through discussion with Stephen Downes and ------ (other people) in order to model open education. The term was then applied to the Artificial Intelligence course offered by Stanford University in (2011?) even though aspects of the Stanford course were not quite open. (? checking this one). Over the next 2 years many courses sprang up which were termed MOOCs, but which were usually not Open, nor Massive, but were simply online courses. In the Association for Learning Technology Conference 2013, Stephen Downes in an invited keynote talk, encouraged a return to the open education ideals, as a need to be filled in the current economic, social, and educational climate. Tbirdcymru (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2013 (UTC)