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ISummit 2007/Open Education Track

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The iSummit Open Education Track was designed as a loosely integrated collection of sessions with a common focus on how to bring the commons into education. Most sessions used participatory, interactive methods ... and all contributed to a shared conversation and convergence amongst people with a passion for open education. This series of sessions provided a space to showcase emerging open education initiatives and to explore ways to better create, share and evolve open educational materials.

And if you are not quite sure what "open education" is all about, here are some ideas from participants at the track over on youtube.

This track also received a lot of coverage on the icommons.org site. Search for "open education" for all 20 articles or check out what Werner and Steve had to say.

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Join the discussion

And because we are different, we are already planning for next year and throwing around some ideas for a short paper on the emerging open education ecosystem and how it could be nurtured. This provides a good starting point, but we will also post updates on the wiki.

So, please join the iSummit Open Education Track discussion list managed by the iCommons iCurriculum team.


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Sessions

Click on session titles for detailed notes and documentation per session!

  • Session 1, 15 June 12.00-13.30: Towards an Open Future for Education served as a starting point for participants in the open education track to gather together and explore vision and perspectives on our open education future, and to compare goals for our time together. Interactive exercise "the spectogram" was employed to tease out the range of opinions on transforming the traditional educational content paradigm. The ideas was to map out both shifts that have already occurred and those likely to occur in the not so distant future. Day 1 - 12.00 – 13.30
  • Session 2, 15 June 15.00-16.30: Open Educational Project Showcase provided a fast-paced, interactive environment where project case studies were shared. Cases included: OER Commons, Free High School Science Textbook, CC Netherlands, AcaWiki, etc. Day 1 - 15.00 – 16:30
  • Session 3, 15 June 17.00-18.30: Policy, Practice, and Pragmatism allowed participants to break into small groups to discuss licensing models, moving legacy materials towards openness, and best paths to to reuse of materials. Participants were invited to propose additional discussions, and all threads of discourse were captured on the event wiki. Day 1 - 17.00 – 18:30
  • Session 4, 16 June 12.00-13.30: Open Education Project Clinic enabled open education projects solicit input from people working on peer production, sharing and open creativity and other domains. Day 2 - 12.00 – 13:30
  • Session 5, 16 June 15.00-16.30: Propagating the Meme: Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education explored practical ways to identify and spread processes and tactics that will help bring the open educational content movement to scale. Day 2 - 15.00 – 16:30
  • Session 6, 17 June 12.00-13.00: Collaborating on Open Education, invited participants to develop a vision for improved collaboration amongst people working on open educational materials, with discussion of how best to build on the work of others. We looked at open education ecologies, and what can be done between now and iSummit 08 Day 3 - 12.00 – 13:00
  • Birds of a feather: one BoF session related to the open education track focused on setting up an open courseware project.

On day 2 of the Summit Mark represented the open education track on a panel in the main hall. Both Delia and Sergio took notes and added their opinions.


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Objectives

  • Raise awareness of the open education resources movement within the Creative Commons / iCommons world.
  • Showcase leading open curriculum and open education initiatives, both at the summit (live presentations) and more broadly (podcasts and blogs).
  • Share cutting edge thinking and learning about peer production methods for open educational materials.
  • Make links between open education activists and others in the broader iCommons community, hopefully leading to synergies, collaborations, advocacy, and mutual support
  • Map out opportunities for increased collaboration amongst people working in open education, and see if there are ways iCommons can support this collaboration over the long haul

Here is a link to main iSummit page: [1]

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Outputs and documentation

  • Report summarizing learning, opportunities and next steps for collaboration in this space (Mark Surman
  • Podcasts from SpeedGeek and interviews with session participants (need person to do this)
  • Articles written by iCommons journalist (need more info on this)
  • Onsite audio and video interviews with participants, for post-event productions: "Five common questions for the commons" (ISKME)
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Pre-Conference Day

Outline and notes from the great Pre-conference day.

Read about the iCommons iCurriculum in-progress OER Case Study Project [2], which served as a point of departure for the pre-conference day. The case study project is a means of developing a framework and tools to help OER projects assess their internal practices and processes, and share their learnings so that others can benefit.

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The rest of this page is oooooold

We left it because it has some useful lists of organisations and individuals. Not all listed here were in Dubrovnik ...

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Participants, partners and other co-conspirators


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Participants

Please add yourself here if you plan to come to more than one of the sessions in this stream and tell us what outcome/activity/discussion would make participation truly worthwhile for you

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Co-conspirators

Please add yourself here if you would like to actively participate in any of the sessions in this stream and tell us what you'd like to showcase and/or share

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Prospective partners

Are you from any of these organisations or initiatives working and playing in the open education space? Are you interested in participating in the iSummit Open Education Track? Add your name to the list above and let us know.

NB: (iCiC) = current members of iCommons iCurriculum consortium

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Organizing team

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