Wednesday, September 26, 2007
7:00 am-3:00 pm Registration
7:00-8:00 am Continental Breakfast in the Lobby
8:00-8:15 am
216 ECC Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:15-9:15 am
216 ECC Nepal Youth Managed Resource Centers
Keynote Manohar Bhattarai has been actively involved in developing strategies for social appropriation of ICTs in Nepal. Working under a broad theme of ICTs for development and harnessing power of ICTs to effectively complement service delivery in key strategic areas like health and education, Manohar has been actively involved in the roll out of community owned rural telecentres in various parts of Nepal since the inception of Nepal’s nascent telecentre movement. Ramita Shrestha has been actively involved in operating and managing Youth Managed Resource Centers throughout Nepal.
9:15-9:45 am
216 ECC A Way Forward for Open Educational Resources: Deliberations of an International Community of Interest
General Session Since 2005 a group of more than 600 individuals from 98 countries has met virtually to consider Open Educational Resources—the experience of some of those involved in OER initiatives and a number of the related issues. After this intense involvement, the international community of interest expressed its opinion on priorities to promote and enable the OER movement.
9:45-10:00 am Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 am :: Concurrent Session 1
201/203 ECC The Digital Education and Information Policy Initiative: Localizing Open Educational Resources in a Copyright Era
There are two sets of roadblocks to the localization of open educational resources: physical roadblocks such as undeveloped technological and political infrastructures and legal roadblocks such as the difficulties created by legal protections of intellectual property. This presentation will focus on both, as they work in conjunction with one another to block the localization of e-education.
205 ECC Designing Appropriate Collaborative Learning Technologies for the Developing World
In this presentation we report on two attempts to intervene in rural Himalayan villages with educational technology, one involving desktop computer technology, and one involving participatory video. We describe the unique constraints of designing appropriate educational technology for the developing world, and we propose a fourfold framework for design.
207 ECC Key Features of a Sustainable Model for Collaborative Content Development
What does a sustainable collaborative network for building and sharing reusable, adaptable, high-quality, effective full courses of open education learning objects look like? The NROC Network is a demonstration of these complex and intuitively contradictory objectives. This session discusses the NROC Network’s key components and initial impacts.
10:45-11:00 am Break in the Lobby
11:00-11:45 am :: Concurrent Session 2
201/203 ECC OpenCourseWare in Motion
OCW in Motion is a project to facilitate the reuse of OCW content in learning situations. It uses a Wiki-style structure to put courseware together and expand a teacher’s OCW with a student’s courseware. It extends the workspace with a collaborative platform to establish relationships with other learning spaces.
205 ECC Localizing Educational Resources Using WikiEducator: A Case Study
This case study shares lessons learned from making content available as open educational resources and eliciting worldwide collaboration. Our goal is to make resources available online in a format that is accessible and open for repurposing and localizing, and learning from the contributions made to the content.
207 ECC Open for Business: Open Education in the Corporate World
Through the efforts of higher education institutions, Open Education has gained recognition for supporting learning throughout the world. However, the corporate world has been notably absent. This presentation examines the results of efforts by Novell Training Services to adopt Open Education as a corporate learning initiative.
11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch at the Alumni House
1:15-2:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 3
201/203 ECC A Wiki Approach to Learning Objectives Frameworks Creation and Alignment
Local educational agencies measure learning outcomes and validate the efficacy of a curriculum based on Learning Objectives Frameworks. This presentation will cover the strategies, based on open standards like SIF, SCORM and LOM, in development by Curriki to address this important ‘Framework Alignment’ element of the Open Curriculum metadata puzzle.
205 ECC Creating and Localizing Open Graphic Content in Public Health OpenCourseWare
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH) OpenCourseWare has made both creation and localization of open graphic content part of its content preparation workflow. Extracurricular availability of JHSPH OCW’s original graphic content via an open image library is an important next step toward making subsequent localization more manageable for reusers.
207 ECC Open Content: When is it Effective Educationally?
Open Educational Resources are often seen as a subset of Open Content. This raises the question of what characterises an OER and distinguishes it from other Open Content? And if the content is deemed educational then what makes it effective in promoting learning in a prospective learner?
2:00-2:15 pm Break in the Lobby
2:15-3:00 pm :: Concurrent Session 4
201/203 ECC Some Guiding Principles for Legal and Technical Interoperability in OER
Ideally, through utilization of legally and technically interoperable standards, Open Educational Resources (OERs) should be educationally different from materials that can merely be read online for free. The current lack of standards threatens to undermine the promise of OERs. Some guiding principles for facilitating community adoption of standards are suggested.
205 ECC International Sharing and Localization of Learning Objects
In order to clarify critical factors in international co-development and localization of learning content, an evaluation study was held in Japan and Thailand. As differences were found in curricula/standards and copyrights/intellectual property rights in addition to language and cultural issues, strategies and processes of localization utilizing “learning objects” are indispensable.
207 ECC Open Content in Education: The Instructor Benefits of OpenCourseWare
The current “closed content” understanding of Intellectual Property is being challenged in educational arenas where a freedom to exchange ideas and content is viewed as beneficial. This qualitative case study analyzes benefits that come to instructors who contribute their content to OpenCourseWare projects, thereby employing an “open content” understanding.
4:00 pm Buses Depart the University Inn for the American West Heritage Center
4:30-6:30 pm American West Heritage Center Activities
6:00 pm Buses Depart the University Inn for Dinner
6:30-8:30 pm Dinner at the American West Heritage Center
Thursday, September 27, 2007
7:00 am-4:30 pm Registration
7:00-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 am
216 ECC Opening Remarks
8:15-9:15 am
216 ECC Teachers Without Borders
9:15-9:30 am
216 ECC ccLearn and OER Custom Search
General Session Learn about ccLearn, a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources. Find out about their project to develop a custom search for Open Educational Resources.
9:30-9:45 am
216 ECC Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance Launch
General Session In July 2007, eight Utah universities came together to form the Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance. The Utah Alliance is committed to providing the citizens of Utah, and the world, access to high quality, open, online materials. To date, the Utah Alliance has published over 100 courses.
9:45-10:00 am Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 am :: Concurrent Session 5
201/203 ECC International Perspectives on the Impact of Open Educational Resources and Open Source Software on Education
This presentation will explore the impact of Open Educational Resources and Open Source Software on education from the multiple perspectives that have been made available through an open presentation series on the Penn State World Campus Terra Incognita blog.
205 ECC Deploying Localized Linux in Schools: Possibilities and Challenges Ahead
This presentation describes the experience the MPP team has had in developing localized linux and deploying them in schools in Nepal using LTSP. By piloting the deployment in two remote schools, this presentation explains the possibilities and the challenges to be faced in the days to come.
207 ECC Teaching Foreign Language Pronunciation Online Asynchronously
WWW.AFRIKAANS.US launched in 2005 as an open learning space, with close to 6000 visits per month. Volunteers localize content to Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, etc. Come listen to recordings, from India, Japan, etc., of learner pronunciation to demonstrate effectiveness of instructional design of asynchronous acquisition of pronunciation.
10:45-11:00 am Break in the Lobby
11:00-11:45 am :: Concurrent Session 6
201/203 ECC Education in Developing Countries and Open Educational Resources
One of the most important actors generating content in developing countries are the development communities (CSOs/NGOs/INGOs). As these organization are using public money and this content are developed for the public good. Hence, this content should be in the Public Domain. Positive awareness and building their capacity is the best way out.
205 ECC The Discourses of OERs: How Flat is this World?
This presentation discusses the provision of open educational resources drawing on the concept of a ‘flat world’ (Friedman,2005). We use a discourse analytical perspective to discuss our data (Fairclough, 2000). We enquire how flattening open educational resources initiatives are in terms of widening participation and empowering individuals through the access to knowledge.
207 ECC Out of Print: Building a Digital Environment for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
We propose the creation of an open content educational resource in history/literature, and documentation/support materials to enable others to easily and effectively create their own using freely available tools and services.
11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch at the Alumni House
1:15-2:00 pm :: Concurrent Session 7
201/203 ECC Building Communities Through Open Content In Rural Himalayan Villages—A Community of Practice Approach To Learning
The Youth Managed Learning Center is a project where youth in Nepal are using technology as a tool to facilitate learning for villages in rural Himalayan villages. To make sure that learning content is localized for the end users, the youth will take on a “Community of Practice” approach to working together.
205 ECC Open Educational Resources in Developing Countries: Assessing the Motivation and Ability for Innovation
Open Educational Resources (OERs) have a significant and growing presence in education systems of developed countries, but their impact in developing countries remains below its potential. We employ analysis frameworks from business strategy and the management of innovation to examine the incentives and opportunities for innovation in OERs for developing countries.
207 ECC Museums and Online Audiences: Making New Connections
Museums recognize that new developments on the Internet, both technological and social, have the potential to revolutionize the relationship between content experts, collections, and constituents. By experimenting with a variety of Web 2.0 tools, we hope to satisfy changing user expectations and enhance our ability to connect with audiences.
2:00-2:15 pm Break in the Lobby
2:15-3:00 Pm :: Concurrent Session 8
201/203 ECC Opening Educational Resources in Nepal: Case Studies of Localization in the Himalayas
Open Educational Resources are increasingly in demand as farmers, merchants, women’s groups and youth seek localized content to advance educational and entrepreneurial opportunities. Rural Himalayan technology centers reveal innovative approaches for marginalized groups to access, adapt, and disseminate knowledge through customized content, Nepali-based software, and tailored technologies.
205 ECC Localizing Open Educational Resources for Higher Education in India—A Consortium Model
The objective of this presentation is to discuss the issues and concerns related to the localization of OERs for higher education. The author proposes to suggest a consortium model for development, localization and effective use of OERs with special reference to open distance learning in India.
207 ECC Libre Learning—OER and Equality
The Libre Learning project explores perspectives on Open Educational Resources, equality and equitable access in (mostly) southern Africa, and explores shaping possible futures in the light of emerging technologies. This session will begin with a short presentation on context and challenges before inviting discussion on collaboration, and future directions.
3:00-3:15 pm Break in the Lobby
3:15-4:30 pm :: Demonstrations
303/305 ECC eduCommons In Any Language
eduCommons is a powerful tool for creating OpenCourseWare sites, but did you know that it can be easily translated into virtually any language? This session will include a brief explanation of how this is done. Abbass Sharif, who has translated eduCommons into Arabic, will share his experiences and lessons learned.
303/305 ECC Your Move
As many students are faced with the prospect of learning “offline” whilst undertaking e-learning courses, we need to look at strategies for desktop integration and navigation support for open content assets to assist them in collecting, organising, using and managing their personal knowledge repositories in support of meaningful learning.
303/305 ECC MediaMatrix: A Secondary Repository Tool
This session will discuss the need to increase access by providing applications that empower users to manipulate, analyze, and publish with online, digital objects/open content. To this end, MATRIX has developed MediaMatrix—a tool that allows users to find, segment, annotate, organize, and publish with online media.
303/305 ECC Flatworld Knowledge: Open Textbooks for a Flat World
Flat World Knowledge will publish free and open-source college textbooks by authors from the world’s top Business Schools. We will facilitate a vibrant social teaching and learning network around our books enhancing our content through the community. Core principles include usability for customers, and sustainability for Flat World Knowledge and its partners.
303/305 ECC eduCommons 3.0
eduCommons 3.0 introduces a number of new features that enhance your ability to create OpenCourseWare sites. In this session we will demonstrate how to take advantage of these enhancements to make the process of developing open educational resources easier, as well as making it easier for end users to use the content.
307/309 ECC The ADDIE of Open Content: A Student Perspective
In a recent instructional design project, students were asked to design instruction using primarily open materials. Based on our experience, we provide suggestions on designing instruction using open materials.
307/309 ECC The Educational Browser—Augmenting OER with Client-side Extensions
This session will demonstrate how users can augment and localize their experience of open educational resources through the use of free extensions to modern internet browsers such as Greasemonkey, Operator and Trailfire.
307/309ECC Yale Open Educational Resources Video Lecture Project
Yale University’s Open Educational Resources Video Lecture Project is building a catalog of digitized audio-visual content for undergraduate liberal arts instruction, to be offered freely through the internet. The project will combine “courseware” resources such as reading lists, lecture notes, and problem sets, with videotaped lecture content from courses at Yale—both in streamed and downloadable audio/video formats—and transcripts of each lecture. With access through an integrated web interface, the internet user’s experience will be comparable to auditing the courses.
307/309 ECC Using Compendium and Flashmeeting to Promote Open Learning
Open Content Initiative has been opening up new opportunities for widening participation. The OpenLearn OU-UK offers not only OER, but also some knowledge media tools: Compendium and Flashmeeting. Our current research focuses on how these technologies can be used to foster learning communities promoting the collective building of knowledge.
307/309 ECC globalEDGE International Business Module Series
MSU-CIBER is home to globalEDGE, the #1 international business resource on the Internet. Among its features, globalEDGE offers a series of interactive, international business modules. Originally designed to supplement a community college curriculum, these modules are now being used in high schools and universities around the country and throughout the world.
6:00 pm Buses Depart the University Inn for Dinner
6:30 pm Dinner at Hamiltons
Friday, September 28, 2007
7:00 am-3:00 pm Registration
7:00-8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:05 am
216 ECC Closing Remarks
8:05-9:05 am
216 ECC It’s All Coming Together, It’s All Coming Apart
Keynote To be an open educator today is to embrace contradictions. Online activity is increasingly being fragmented and integrated. Open culture takes giant steps while forces of control tighten their grip. The future has never been brighter nor so perilous. Can we inhabit irresolvable dilemmas and still manage to act?
9:05-9:45 am
216 ECC Opening Up Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Synergies
General Session This panel, which consists of representatives both from granting and research foundations, discusses opportunities, challenges, and synergies involved in enhancing educational quality and access through various open education efforts in the areas of technology, content, and knowledge. The presenters share possible strategies for driving participation and sustaining the movement.
9:45-10:00 am Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 am :: Concurrent Session 9
201/203 ECC Open Education License
There are three primary licenses used for open content today: the Creative Commons By-NC-SA (48%), Creative Commons By-SA (26%), and the GFDL (26%). These licenses each include a “copyleft” requirement, which means that regardless of which of the popular licenses you choose for your project, your content is guaranteed to be incompatible with over half of the other OERs in the world. Come learn practical ways to work around these incompatibility issues and join a productive conversation on the future of copyright licenses for OERs.
205 ECC OpenCourseWare and Localization: Bringing Together Old and New Technology to Increase Accessibility
As a greater diversity in OpenCourseWare material is offered, it becomes apparent that a need to understand the diversity of potential users and their cultural contexts exists. This presentation will discuss localization at a national perspective, and within the multitude of subcultures that are found in large multi-cultural countries.
207 ECC Open Educational Resources: How are Faculty Using Them?
Nationally, vast amounts resources are and have been devoted to making open educational learning materials available to faculty members to improve teaching and learning. We report on the results from a survey of US faculty members about use (or non-use) of digital materials for teaching and learning.
10:45-11:00 am Break in the Lobby
11:00-11:45 am :: Concurrent Session 10
201/203 ECC Reaching the Boundaries of the Global South: Exploring the Importance of Guidelines for the Localisation of OERs
Little is reported about how best to support user communities to localise OER content according to different cultural and educational systems. This presentation reports on the experience of two large scale collaborating projects based at the UK Open University: OpenLearn and the TESSA programme who both produce OER content.
205 ECC Placeholding: Location-Specific Metadata and Context for Open Content
Are you collecting data from a specific location? Looking for images that relate directly to your lessons? Drawing on real OER use cases, this session will engage participants in discussion and exercises to explore the potential of location-specific metadata as dynamic contextualization of OER for future use and adaptation.
207 ECC The Learner/Teacher, Online Platforms, and Web Analytics
This presentation (1) advocates the concept of “learner/teacher” for a paradigm of participation in open education, (2) outlines features of online platforms that harness the creativity of these participants, and (3) describes the usefulness of web analytics in observing and improving these platforms—each point increasing localization effectiveness.
11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch at the Alumni House
1:15-2:00 pm :: Concurrent Session 11
201/203 ECC Principle-based Design: Adjusting Instructional Approaches for New Environments
In this presentation we explore what instructional designers can learn from the field of cross-cultural communications. Techniques used by cross-cultural communicators can help instructional designers better disseminate the foundational principles of an instructional approach, rather than replicate surface characteristics that may not have been critical to the approach’s success.
205 ECC Exploratory Physics Learning Using Open Source Technologies
3D Physics Explorer is a graphical physics simulation problem solving tool for exploratory learning of physics. This tool gives students simulated materials and tools to design working solutions to engaging, real-life physics problems. An associated web site will provide instructional simulation activities at no cost.
207 ECC Educating Educators using Open Educational Resources
This presentation highlights instructional methods to support learning using open educational resources within adult and higher education courses. The conversation will go beyond content to discuss methods for incorporating open educational resources within the instructional presentations, learner practice opportunities, and feedback.
2:00-2:15 pm Break in the Lobby
2:15-3:00 pm :: Concurrent Session 12
201/203 ECC Remixing Open-Source Materials for Creating a 3D Game Engine: A Developer’s Diary
Open-source library packages have been used to create a 3D engine that will be used to develop environments for training software. We hope to show that the software we are developing will not only be high quality and high functioning educational software, but cost-effective as well.
207 ECC Open Content, Universities and ISP Liability Exemptions
This session will examine the eventual liability of Universities and teaching institutions, as ISPs, for any infringements committed by their users (students, professors and staff), under both EU and US regimes.
