Propagating the Meme: Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education
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Session 5. Propagating the Meme: Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education
This session explored practical ways to identify and spread processes and tactics that will help bring the open educational content movement to scale. We broke into small groups and discussed: researching and documenting approaches that work; adapting successful techniques from open source and open culture; and organizing communities of teachers and others to grow the open education movement.
Day 2 - 15.00 – 16:30
Also check out this article by Paola about the session.
The Migratory Gesse Video is also online.
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Group 1
In the centre there is learning, surrounded by individuals, surrounded by institutions, and finally a set of shared values that holds everything together.
Scaling up:
You will notice that there is a river that flows down, and which creates communication between the layers. What allows us to scale is this river / these are the forces that allow us not only to interact but stimulate the system:
- resources
- tools that allow us to build things
- research and investigation
- communication
- advocacy
- community leadership
- teaching
Flock of Migratory Geese
Scaling up:
Migratory gees migrate back and forth between North and South. The flock combines birds from all places. Open education is something that becomes scalable as we have this North - South interaction. Not something that is confined to the North or the South. Scalability happens if this is a global movement. There are different flocks (textbooks, courseware, etc.), which together make up the open education environment. The leader takes the strain, then the next leader steps up.
Group 3
Process of creating this, each of us drew one thing, and we combined them into one big picture - sometimes, we would add, and expand on each others contributions. letting people draw helped everyone contribute, even across language barriers. there are big players, and small players. the sun of peer collaboration shines on everything. we have storms. knowledge comes from different places, learning comes from different places.
Scaling up:
- We already spoke about our process. Connect the dots - bird's eye view - communicate and share
- Local initiatives are not necessarily global knowledge
- We need local knowledge, traditional knowledge
- Then local initiatives leading to global cooperation
- And finally access for all, listening to the needs
Group 4
Picture of life cycle starting with the soil being the raw knowledge and facts and then arrows in both directions creating the learning assets assisted by tools and creativity and above learning assets with arrows in both directions to the actors who are collaborating, contributing and some of the actors have red dots and some do not which demonstrates diversity. The actors feed the raw material represented as rain and shit.. shit happens but still contributes to the ever growing life cycle of open education.
Scaling up:
Comes down to the tools. Putting them into the hands of the young people. Giving them the resources to create. Also ethics and culture. And that is really up to all actors, opening up participation. Increasing participation by all actors. Increasing tools and training on how to use them.
Group 5
A place of transparent buildings where knowledge is represented, there are different types of communication means on the roofs. It's important that the communities are distributed - some are located in one place, and some are located in different places. There is also a sun and moon, which means that all the time you are learning (day and night).
Scaling up:
We have scaling already in our drawing. The message in it is that every node has to contain everything
- communication
- content
- nodes could be hierarchical layers, they could be regions, they could be ...
- whatever nodes would choose to be, you need packaged within it the components that would make it whole - and it can reach out through the communication channels
