Open and Flexible Learning

Exploring free & open education at University of the Arts London

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Open Education at UAL

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DIAL Evaluation Report (Open Educational Resources)

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What is a MOOC?

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Written and Narrated by Dave Cormier
Video by Neal Gillis

Researchers: Dave Cormier, Alexander McAuley, George Siemens, Bonnie Stewart

Created through funding received by the University of Prince Edward Island through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's "Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy"

Also see artsmooc - http://www.artsmooc.org/

This initiative aims to attract collaboration from across the sector, including individuals, organisations and collectives from educators, practitioners & the creative Industries, read more here: http://www.artsmooc.org/

Artsmooc aims to grow a unique ‘hands on’ research and development network of interested and specialist practitioners, affiliate partners who explore and collaborate together on new models of open pedagogy delivery, through practice based Arts Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs.

The venture aims to explore the collaborative potential of developing and delivering a new sustainable model for accessible arts learning and practice. By partnering with arts support networks and initiatives together with new technological innovation we aim to collectively create an independent and inclusive hybrid open physical and virtual arts learning environment which supports a new dynamic and diverse arts community, with a strong emphasis back on openness and collaboration.

If you are interested in being involved please join artsmooc or email info@artsmooc.org

Old School New School: How it Works

The artsmooc community will build on the progress and innovations of the past ten years in open educational practice and in the original principles of ‘cMOOCs’, based on connectivism, and its four principles – autonomy, diversity, connectedness and openness.

MOOC Image below: Every letter negotiable Some rights reserved by mathplourde

Unlimited access to online training for staff and students with lynda.com

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Creating OER and Combining Licenses - Full

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This video is intended to help you choose compatible resources and choose a valid license for your work. Suppose you are developing an open educational resource (OER), and you want to use some other OER within yours. If you create a derivative work by adapting or combining works offered under Creative Common licenses, you must not only follow the terms of each of the licenses involved, but also choose a license for your work that is compatible with the other licenses. Also available as "Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 1" and "Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 2."

The design and development of this resource was made possible by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, Grant No. P116Y090040.

SCORE Fellowship Final Report: Chris Follows

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Learning studio workshop on digital tools and social media

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4 categories of open educational practice

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Case study: OEP & process.arts at UAL

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In this video Chris Follows from leads a 60 minute presentation and group discussion on UALs (University of the arts London) perspectives of developing open participatory education and social media content groups and networks through process.arts.ac.uk an open online resource sharing day-to-day arts practice and research. Part of Drawing on All Resources: University of Brighton developing open educational practice in art, design and media. 16th May 2012 Sallis Benney Theatre.

This video can be downloaded from youtube via the remix tab or in two parts here.

Process.arts, a grass roots web2.0 open educational environment for sharing day-to-day arts practice and research of staff and students, currently provides a new ‘open learning’ space to the University of the Arts London (UAL) that straddles the institution/educational (formal learning) environment and the social (informal learning) environment. It creates an ‘experimental’ space for open educational practitioners to develop and define a new language for open edu-social practice without conforming or being influenced by pre-existing academic structures and processes. The transition of process.arts into an official UAL service will test this model and raise questions as to how institutions successfully support and develop autonomous and independent grassroots innovation without homogenising innovation.

Background

Chris Follows initially developed Process.arts in 2008 with the support of UAL’s Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD). Chris was awarded a secondment and fellowship to develop his ideas for creating an open educational web environment for arts staff and students to share and cluster rich media content and resources. Process.arts has been maintained and developed by Chris as a sustainable and independent system, through agile experimentation, small project support, voluntary support, stewardship and an open university SCORE fellowship project.

In 2012 UAL began the process of rebuilding its VLE framework, and process.arts was identified as a valuable resource that could fit into the University’s new portfolio of tools; consequently, process.arts is due to be officially introduced as a supported ‘service’ in September 2012.

However, the structure of process.arts does not map onto courses; meta data links user-generated pieces of openly licensed text, image, video and audio content together through individual profiles and subject specific interest groups. Like many web2.0 environments used for education, process.arts can neither really be described as a repository nor as a VLE. Because of this it provides a novel and alternative VLE environment that encourages and supports rich media experimentation and informal learning, a welcome alternative for many to commercial alternatives.

Conversion to a full service will provide a firm foundation for long term stability, integration wth other systems, support and growth. The project team is in the process of integrating the current informal agile development approach into a more formal in-house system. The team are addressing outstanding bugs, monitoring user interface changes and identifying outstanding functionality. There will inevitably be some loss of agile spontaneity although we aim to retain the overall grass roots participatory feel.

Create account on process.arts http://process.arts.ac.uk/user/register

Bio

Chris Follows has worked at the University of the Arts London for 7 years and been researching and developing practice based Art and Design open educational media content communities since 2007. Chris is currently HYPERLINK "http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/about-dial/" DIAL project manager (digital Integration into arts learning) part of the JISC UK Developing digital literacies programme, HYPERLINK "http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/fellows" SCORE fellow at the Open University, web environment coordinator for HYPERLINK "http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/alto-uk/" ALTO & ALTO UK (JISC UK OER programme) and the initiator of the HYPERLINK "http://process.arts.ac.uk" http://process.arts.ac.uk . Other projects include NAM: Conflict and media conflictandmedia.arts.ac.uk HYPERLINK "http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/conflictandmedia/" http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/conflictandmedia/

Chris is a painter and works in his studio an artist run space is in Stockwell, London - http://www.amacstudios.org/

Website: http://www.chrisfollows.com/

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Exploring free & open education at University of the Arts London

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Open Education at UAL

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DIAL Evaluation Report (Open Educational Resources)

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What is a MOOC?

Old School New School: How it Works

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Creating OER and Combining Licenses - Full

SCORE Fellowship Final Report: Chris Follows

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