Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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 WikiEducator
Keynote. Wayne is a committed advocate and user of free software for education. He was the founding project leader of New Zealand’s eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) project and responsible for establishing the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) WikiEducator - a website that provides free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wayne has extensive experience in the theory and practice of open and distance learning (ODL), and has a keen interest in pedagogical innovation for sustainable development.
9:15-9:45 AM
216 ECC 10 Years of Open Content
General Session Ten years have passed since the creation of the first open content license and the beginning of the openly licensed sharing of educational resources. How did this all start? Where has it come? Where will it go in the future? In this quick-paced discussion, David will take us from history, to present, to future of the open educationmovement. Slides (Slideshare)
9:45-10:00 am Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 1
201/203 ECC Evaluation of Learning Objects: From Infancy to Effectiveness
This presentation describes the progression of the evaluation of learning objects over the last ten years since the inception of open education, explains the current state of evaluation of learning objects, and identifies key milestones necessary to help propagate the quality and use of learning objects in open education. 205/207
205/207 ECC OCW Toolkit Launch
The OCW Toolkit Initiative collects portable “kits” of resources for getting OCW projects off the ground. From making the OCW case to IP management, we gather implements, and place them in the hands of those who need them most. In this presentation, we launch Toolkit 1.0, seeking feedback from the community on ways OCW project needs differ in different regions, in developing/developed countries and in different types of institutions. We also discuss interdependencies among this kit and others.
303/305 ECC Literacy is Priceless: FreeReading. net and the Impact of Open Source Technology on Elementary Education
Learn about FreeReading[dot] net, a free, open-source K-3 reading intervention program. Hear about three major successes FreeReading has experienced since its inception: how traditional channels were navigated to allow FreeReading to be approved in a state adoption cycle; how district-wide pilots enabled teachers to engage with open source content and provide feedback that helped further the development of FreeReading; and how FreeReading successfully executed a viral marketing strategy.
10:45-11:00 AM Break in the Lobby
11:00-11:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 2
201/203 ECC Creating User Community for OCW Through Sharing Lecture Movies
Three years have passed since first six universities launched their OCW sites in Japan and OCW have been entering into second phase. In this phase creating user community and globalization are very important key issues. And as a current tendency more media rich content like lecture movie is getting more users access. In this paper we propose the second phase OCW based on information sharing among users on lecture movies. By using this method users can easily create their comments on shared movies.
205/207 ECC Opening contents in high level: the experience of the University of Murcia
Opening educational contents is one of our principal purposes, and in order to consider it we are members of OCW Consortium for the last two years. In this paper we explain the process. We have design an integral project of work about three questions: 1) the design of the web site and the use of eduCommons; 2) the process to convince teachers that it’s interesting opening contents in the net; and 3) the evaluation of the published courses (OCW-UMU evaluation committee).
303/305 ECC OpenCourseWare repositories: A survey and a classification
OpenCourseWare resources form the content backbone that is essential for supporting online learning. In this paper, the investigator attempts to create a comprehensive listing of the many different OpenCourseWare repositories and types them into three categories: Type 1: Those that house content primarily on site; Type 2: Those that mainly provide metadata with links to resources housed at other sites; and Type 3; Hybrid sites that provide both content and links to external content. Slides.
11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch at the Alumni House
1:15-2:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 3
201/203 ECC Redesign of a Content Delivery System, TUSK for the Small Screen: Bringing a Web-based LMS to the Small Screen, a Ubiquitous Appliance in the Developing World
Tufts University is sharing its innovative infrastructure, TUSK, for content and knowledge management with medical and public health schools in the developing world (India and Africa) where handheld devices are ubiquitous and computers are not. With foundation funding Tufts is seeking to modify and adapt TUSK for mobile learning in bandwidth and resource constrained environments.We will discuss student usage surveys, interface design and OER application development needed for mobile education. Slides.
205/207 ECC Assessing Awareness and Use of an Institution’s OpenCourseWare among Incoming Students
This study assesses awareness and use of OpenCourseWare (OCW) among new students at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). Incoming students were asked to answer 7 questions related to OCW awareness, pre-enrollment OCW use, perceived influence on enrollment, academic planning OCW use, future OCW use, value of OCW, and improvement of OCW. Preliminary results suggest that new students are increasingly aware of OCW and plan to incorporate it into their academic experience.
303/305 Sustainability Models for Community College Open Textbooks
The Community College Open Textbook Project is a collaboration of over 60 community colleges and several non-profit partners to identify sustainable models for promoting the development and use open textbooks at community colleges. Panelists will report on Project progress, discuss a working model on Connexions for repurposing open textbook content for Elementary Statistics, and review the business model for a financially sustainable OER enterprise and its potential features for open textbooks. Full paper.
2:15-3:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 4
201/203 ECC Taiwan’s OpenCourseWare: Implications from Accreditation
The first OpenCourseWare accreditation was held on NCTU campus in Sept.. 2007. Physics and Calculus I/II were chosen for the accreditation subjects. 26 to-be-freshmen students join, and one passed all three. Results indicated that accreditation can support students’ learning before school begins and during the semester. The accreditation would make OCW course content complete and can be made into online courses easily. Future research may try online accreditation with proper identity check. Full paper.
205/207 ECC Knowledge Hub: Indexing Open Educational Resources, Preliminary Research Results
Knowledge Hub is a public, multilingual hub that allows you to discover selected Open Educational Resources (OERs) using metadata built by experts and enhanced by librarians, faceted searching and social networking tools to help teachers and students find the best resources for their educational needs. This presentation describes the preliminary research results of the educational use of KHUB by Tecnológico de Monterrey. Knowledge Hub development started in April 2008. As of today, KHUB has been used by at least 600 Tecnológico de Monterrey’s faculty, more than 7,000 selected OER’s have been indexed, professors have adopted OER’s indexed by KHUB in more than 87 courses, and these OER’s have had an impact in at least 8,858 students.
3:30 pm Buses Depart for hike
3:30-5:30 pm Hike
6:00 pm Buses Depart the University Inn for Dinner
6:30-8:30 pm Dinner
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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 Magnatune
Keynote. Teresa Malango is Vice President of Music Licensing and Business Partnerships for Magnatune, an artist-friendly independent online record label that sells and licenses its music for personal, commercial and non-commercial use. Teresa has an extensive background in theater, video, and film production. For a number of years she ran prestigious public lectureship programs at the University of California, Berkeley presenting eminent scholars and dignitaries from diverse fields, including Nobel Laureates and international political leaders. Among filmmakers and other creative professionals, the Magnatune site is known for its ability to generate customized, on-demand music licenses for any song in the catalog. Currently, Teresa oversees music licensing and business partnerships for Magnatune working with clients like 20th Century Fox, Lonelygirl15, Harley-Davidson, Gearhead Pictures, and Linden Research, creators of the online society Second Life. Video (Google Video).
9:15-9:45 AM
216 ECC OpenCourseWare Consortium
General Session Updates, information, and news from OpenCourseWare Consortium.
9:45-10:00 am Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 5
201/203 ECC Adding OpenSearch and OAI-PMH to eduCommons OpenCourseWare sites
We’ll present two Plone products to extend eduCommons capabilities: OpenSearch module to allow external applications to search inside an eduCommons based OpenCourseWare website using OpenSearch protocol. OAI module to syndicate the content from the OpenCourseWare website using the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting from the Open Archives Initiative. We’ll present both modules possibilities and the installation process. Slides.
205/207 ECC Placing content before technology: The Open Yale Courses development approach
Open Yale Courses (OYC) is built upon the belief that the better we can capture each professor’s personal approach to a subject, the more meaningful the educational content shared with the world will be. Our approach centers each OYC course on the actual lectures presented by professors in Yale classrooms, offered in video, audio, and transcript formats. We have implemented design features and a site architecture that provide end users a highly accessible and contextualized learning experience.
303/305 Developing the dScribe Model: What we did this summer
The University of Michigan Medical School and the School of Information have been developing tools and techniques to support the generation of OER. During the Summer of 2008 medical school students and others became dScribes and used these tools, working with medical faculty, legal counsel and project staff to vet and publish materials from the first year of UM physician education. This session reports on the results of that work and the current status of the dScribe tools and processes.
10:45-11:00 AM Break in the Lobby
11:00-11:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 6
201/203 ECC OCW4ALL: Automatic Accessible Learning Materials
The OCW Toolkit accessibility group identifies its main aim as “OCW4ALL.” We want to offer the OCW community two primary engines to create automatic accessible formats. Our next step is to seek collaboration to define new automatic services. The objectives are: where a university has a PDF, an automatic engine translates it to voice book and where a university has video, an automatic engine translates it to text. This round table will discuss ways to publish learning content in accessible formats. Slides 1. Slides 2.
205/207 ECC Designed to Share - Next Generation OER
Calling content “open,” or using the Creative Commons license doesn’t necessarily make it valuable, useful or sharable. This presentation provides an overview of content development practices designed to ensure pedagogical quality, interoperability and reusability. We will review widely used quality evaluation rubrics, online learning object evaluation tools, approaches to learning object design a set of recommended metadata attributes to attach to all your learning objects.
303/305 ECC Open Learning Sustainability: Different Models, Different Goals
The life cycle of ‘open-only’ OCWs life are considered (birth, growth, and maturity). At each phase, the perspectives of (i) development infrastructure, (ii) content design, and (iii) promotion, marketing and money are explored to ensure long-term sustainability and to reach the widest possible audience.
11:45 am-1:15 PM Lunch at the Alumni House
1:15-2:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 7
201/203 ECC Open Learning Networks: A Vision of the Post-CMS World
While the CMS is ubiquitous in higher education, social and technological forces are driving it in to obsolescence. But what will replace it? This paper provides a vision of “Open Learning Networks” (OLNs) which would combine the strengths of institutional enterprise software (Networked Learning Environments) with Personal Learning Environments based on open Web 2.0 applications to create an ideal learning environment in the post-CMS world. Slides.
205/207 ECC Building an OER Ecosystem: A Community of Learning
Michigan State University is developing an international project focusing on training, information sharing, and community building within the food industry. There are two main goals of the project including the creation of industry certifications for individuals and a community that facilitates sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER). The collaboration of OER resources, community, and industry will be a key strategy for workforce development in the food industry.
303/305 ECC Connecting Practitioners to Lessons Learned: OER Case Study Tools
How do case studies inform OER communities to leverage successes and address challenges? How is case study research informing a practical tool set? By focusing on key structures of OER case studies, participants will gain an understanding of how to create case studies and engage in continuous improvement. The toolkit, integrating participatory evaluation, action research-oriented data collection, and social networking, is designed to capture lessons learned for reuse across OER projects. Slides.
2:00-2:15 PM Break in the Lobby
2:15-3:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 8
201/203 ECC TU Delft OpenCourseWare: From Repository to Community
Describes the results of the pilot phase (April 2007-July 2008) of the OpenCourseWare project of TU Delft (Netherlands). We will discuss the results of the evaluation (i.e. From the side of the users). In the case study we will describe the way material in the field of Water Management is being reused and integrated in a blended learning course. Finally, we will focus on the next phase of the project: from ‘repository to community’ and the challenges for the future. Slides.
205/207 ECC Impact of Open Educational Resources and Open Source Software on Education: Catalyzing Production, Use, and Reuse of OER at Penn State World Campus
The paper will connect thematic findings that have emerged from the Impact of Open Educational Resources and Open Source Software on Education series, made available on the Terra Incognita blog, with OER activities under development at the Penn State World Campus. Although in early development, the World Campus is rethinking its course materials design, development, and management workflow and outputs to reduce barriers and catalyze systemic and sustainable production, use, and reuse of OER. Full paper.
303/305 ECC Supporting Meaningful Learning with Online Resources: Developing a Review Process
Content creation by users on the internet has exploded in many markets. Reviewing online content through a peer review process is important to assess quality. The Instructional Architect (IA) users to create this online content. One of the programs initiatives is to examine the quality of teacher-created projects in the IA. The process of creating an IA Review Rubric is discusses as well as the value the rubric has for supporting meaningful learning. Full paper. Slides.
3:00-3:15 pm Break in the Lobby
3:15-4:30 PM :: Demonstrations
307/309 ECC Teachers Without Borders
Teachers Without Borders is dedicated to changing the world one teacher at a time. We provide tools and training for a global community of teachers who help each other play a more vital role in their communities. We focus on teachers with initiative, who are passionate about their subjects and compassionate towards children. In this demonstration session, we’ll show some of the community and other tools we use to enable teachers to network, build community, and share expertise. We’ll also talk about how we use technology to recruit volunteers and put them to work
307/309 ECC Workshop on RDFa Markup and Other mechanisms for Enabling OER Search and Discovery
Metadata, which describes attributes of a given resource, is crucial for enabling more refined search and discovery than would otherwise be possible using standard web-scale tools (such as Google). For this workshop, we will describe ccREL, a metadata protocol (based on RDFa) which was developed by Creative Commons. We will provide implementation guidelines and demonstrate the value of such markup for open education.
307/309 ECC Building Flexibility Through Content Management
Because OERs (and OCWs and Open Textbooks) may live in different environments, building in flexibility in content is a crucial and sometimes missing element. At the University of California, Irvine and its Distance Learning Center, we have built a content management tool that we have used for many of our own OCWs. In its latest iteration, many of the features of wikis and blogging are used to support user feedback loops, multiple author editing, and a revision history with rollback.
307/309 ECC OERca
OERca is a content/decision management tool used to assist students, faculty, and staff with preparing and publishing educational content as OERs. Many decisions go into the publishing process of OERs. Shepherding and capturing those decisions in a consistent, defensible way is important to any organization participating in this creation and publication. Additionally, OERca enables metadata (resource attributes) attachment, allowing for potentially dynamic data retrieval and organization at the content presentation layer. We will demonstrate this open source tool, soliciting feedback on how OERca might fit into your institution's OER publishing process.
307/309 ECC Managing Accessibility and Budgets: A New Approach to Navigating Multimedia libraries
3Play Media focuses on streamlining the implementation of accessibility solutions. From transcription to captioning, our tools are designed to provide quality and control, while removing much of the headache on cost of traditional offers. Inspired by OCW Consortium members, this platform is designed for the educational setting. This session will walk through our process and show how accessibility is attainable with minimal effort on your part and demonstrate the additional outward facing benefits such as video search.
307/309 ECC Radical reuse: a framework for distributed publishing
This session will combine practical demonstration with provocation. The components for powerful, scalable personal learning environments have come of age. Open source tools and formats allow for near-limitless recombination of content and components, even on a small budget. Special emphasis will be placed on the power of syndication and embed code; we’ll demo WordPress plugins and MediaWiki extensions that foster permeable spaces promoting instantaneous reuse and streamlined content workflows.
307/309 ECC Beyond Web Metrics: Data Mining in Open Education
Longitudinal study of open educational resources and their use is expensive conduct. Recent advances in data mining and statistics have made possible the longitudinal study of web usage data. By utilizing web usage data and a knowledge discovery framework, OER providers can better understand and characterize their users on a smaller budget. The focus of this submission is in the practical aspects of the kinds of data, tools, and answers that can come from educational data mining activities.
307/309 ECC ODEPO Project (Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations)
Though the continued growth of the open education movement is a good sign, it is difficult to stay abreast of changing policies, procedures, and resources, especially if one is interested in leveraging the investments and solutions of other organizations. The ODEPO project aims to provide a space where relevant data about educational projects and organizations are openly accessible and editable. In this way, ODEPO will also foster networking and collaboration in the education community.
307/309 ECC Open Syllabus: Editing, Publishing and Sharing Course Web Sites
Syllabi are universal gateways to teaching and learning in universities. Building on this metaphor, Open Syllabus is a Google Web Toolkit tool aimed at creating quickly structured course websites. OSyl organizes all the resources and activities through a parametrizable template. Osyl is based on XML so course websites can be shared, exported and archived easily. OSyl can be set up as a unique gateway to all the course websites of a university providing both public and private accesses. The current Osyl prototype is implemented as a Sakai 2.5 module.
307/309 ECC KORA: Building Sustainable and Adaptable Open Education Resources
Two key problems for the OER movement are sustainability and adaptability.Often cultural heritage institutions produce wonderful educational resources that simply disappear or are difficult to reuse or adapt for other contexts. To this end, MATRIX has developed an open source application that cultural and educational institutions can use to preserve digital materials and create open educational resources. KORA is designed to work with all media types and for easily creating displays of these
307/309 ECC The HEAT Engine: A Demonstration of Sustainable Design from an Open-Source 3D Game Engine
The HEAT engine is a 3D game engine built with the assistance of open-source resources. We offer a multiplayer demonstration of the tool that includes full facilitator interaction with simulation participants to demonstrate the power and usefulness of the simulation training environment, including many specific educational features not found within most educational simulation tools. Handout.
307/309 ECC OER For Everyone Through Moodle
This session will present a modification for the open source learning management system Moodle that facilitates instant publishing of existing online resources or activities as open educational resources, or entire courses as OpenCourseWare. Use of the modification supports the sustainability of OER/OCW projects by minimizing costs and putting workflow in the hands of the faculty authors, and contributes to meaningful learning by utilizing existing resources, activities, and practices.
6:00 PM Buses Depart the University Inn for Dinner
6:30 PM Dinner at Hamiltons
Friday, September 26, 2008
7:00 AM-3:00 PM Registration
7:00-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM
216 ECC Closing Remarks
8:15-9:00 AM
216 ECC Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Keynote. An experienced educator and author, Gary has an extensive background in business management, media production and technology development. In 1983, he founded Archipelago Productions, a developer of award-winning digital product for the education market and documentary films for television. In 1997, Gary became President and CEO of NETg, a global leader in providing e-Learning solutions to many of the largest corporations in the world, including Shell, IBM, AT&T, Honeywell and Motorola. Under his leadership, NETg developed a library of more than 1,200 multimedia-based courses, grew to more than 800 employees, and had offices in 30 countries. As Executive Director of MITE, Gary continues his lifelong commitment to education. Video (Google Video).
9:00-9:15 AM Break in the Lobby
9:15-10:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 9
201/203 ECC Unleashing the Usefulness of Educational Resources through Mining of Educational Metadata
General Session Educational standards information attached to OERs can make resources better accessible to teachers. This paper investigates the exploitation of existing manual standards assignments to determine which standards are equivalent so as to cut down on the effort of standards assignment. Assigning equivalent groups of state standards rather than each state’s standard individually might is a sustainable way to add standards information to OERs in order to support meaningful learning. Full paper. Slides.
205/207 ECC An Analysis of “Open” in Education: License-Policy Diversity and Implications for the Global Commons
Open educational resources (OER) have captured the attention and resources of people and organizations all over the world. This diversity of OER initiatives can be useful; however, some basic standards of practice are needed in order to build a global open education commons. I will share results of an analysis of the licensing policies of a large collection of presumptively “open” educational sites, along with some guiding principles for improving licensing clarity and interoperability.
303/305 The Peer 2 Peer University: Moving Forward
The idea of a P2P University has been floating around for a few years. Such an initiative would support informal communities of learners, offer openly designed and taught courses, and provide alternative mechanisms for accreditation, both linking to formal credit, and based on portfolio’s of completed work and users’ reputations within the community. In the session we present a design blueprint for this initiative, in order to receive feedback, collect questions, and identify more collaborators.
9:45-10:00 AM Break in the Lobby
10:00-10:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 10
201/203 ECC Open Participatory Learning Research Network
The OER movement has been successful in promoting the idea that knowledge is a public good, expanding the aspirations of organizations and individuals to publish OERs. The Open Learning Network (OLnet) aims to extend this cultural shift, to evaluate the impact of OERs on teaching and learning. OLnet will facilitate more transformative educational practices by linking the design, use and evaluation of OERs. OLnet is a community-based solution for improving OER design and encouraging greater adoption of evaluative techniques to provide evidence on the effectiveness of OERs in use.
205/207 ECC SocialLearn - Finding a New Form of Sustainability
This paper details the SocialLearn project at the Open University in the UK. This is a project which is developing an open approach to education, building on the OUUK’s OpenLearn project, and utilizing social networking. The project is developing an open API so that third party tools can be loosely coupled to create a learning environment around a central learner profile. The system will mine user data to provide resources for goals, related goals, contacts, and commercial offerings.
303/305 ECC What Web 2.0 can Teach the Open Education Movement
The ten top most popular Internet sites in America have content contributed by users. Sites like Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia have survived initial criticisms and are not flourishing. Looking at empirical research studies through a thematic analysis, this study analyzes what can be learned from these sites and how it can be applied to the Open Education Movement.Full paper. Slides.
11:00-11:45 AM :: Concurrent Session 11
201/203 ECC Developing An Open Augmented Reality Platform for Learning
If new digital media like video games present new models for learning, then Mobile Media devices reframe where learning takes place. In this session we will discuss ARIS (Augmented Reality & Interactive Storytelling), a web-based engine that lets anyone author location-based media for mobile, handheld devices. How was this engine created? What kinds of learning does it foster? What does it take to sustain Mobile Media for learning? We will discuss these issues and share our experiences using the engine in Madison, Wisconsin.
205/207 ECC Normative and Summative Aspects of Online Peer Assessment in University Courses
Online peer review/assessment are common practices in open collaborative communities like Wikipedia and Free Software. Technological innovation has increased possibilities to use them for both normative and summative assessment in university courses. Using empirical data from two undergraduate courses at the University of the Western Cape, we analyze the effects of online peer assessment on effective teaching and learning, identify challenges and describe success factors. Slides.
303/305 ECC Community in Constructing the OER Handbook
We explore the creation of the OER Handbook and its development, and how it is a reflection of the current state of OER. As sections of the “OER Lifecycle” are compared, contrasted and reflected upon, patterns emerge for improvement. Presentation
11:45 am-1:15 PM Lunch at the tent outside the Eccles Conference Center
1:15-2:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 12
201/203 ECC ISAPS - An Open System for Science Learning Games
ISAPS is an open software system for authoring and playing educational 3D simulation games. It includes a Learning Assessment Engine, a Game Authoring Tool for non-programmers and a Game Runtime. Each component of ISAPS is extensible by third party developers. ISAPS will explore both technical and commercial issues that will allow a diverse community of experts to pool their talents into a business that is sustainable and beneficial to the founders, contributors and users of the final products. Full paper. Slides.
205/207 ECC Using OERs to support meaningful learning in teacher education: the TESSA experience
The Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) initiative is integrating original OERs into large scale teacher education programmes across nine countries in the region, with the aim of developing and enhancing teacher learning. This presentation explores how design of the TESSA OERs is enabling use within a variety of teacher education programmes, integration challenges and emerging findings around changes in teachers’ practices, and draws implications for OER design and sustainability.
303/305 ECC The MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative: Employing a Blended Learning Approach with Appropriate Technologies to Encourage OER Usage and Creation in Developing Countries
The MIT initiative, Blended Learning Open Source Science or Mathematics Studies (BLOSSOMS), will be a free repository of educational video modules co-created by partners in the U.S., Jordan and Pakistan that will deliver demand-driven OER to high school teachers and students in developing countries by using a blended learning pedagogical approach combined with a locally appropriate delivery technology. The project goals are to enhance high school education worldwide and increase OER usage and production in developing countries. Full paper. Slides.
2:00-2:15 PM Break in the Lobby
2:15-3:00 PM :: Concurrent Session 13
201/203 ECC The Open Language Learning Initiative: New Models for Design, Production, and Sustainability
The Open Language Learning Initiative (OLLI) is an international online community for learners of all ages to explore and acquire second language skills. Slides.
205/207 ECC Teacher as Designers of Online and Open Educational Resources: An Empirical Examination of Professional Development for Re-Use
As online and open learning resources become more available to the K-12 classroom, teachers are going to learn to view themselves as designers of curriculum rather than consumers of pre-fabricated curriculum. This study has two purposes: to evaluate a modified professional development model designed to help teachers accomplish this goal and to characterize teacher’s design strategies as coupled with a self-evaluation of technology knowledge. Full paper.
