Horizon2008:Shortlist 3c

From Horizon Project

2008 Short List [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Webware Collaborative Workspaces Simple Video Capture and Sharing Community Tagging [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Collective Intelligence Social Operating Systems Open Education Resources Alternative Interaction Devices [edit] Key Trends Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation [edit] Critical Challenges Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years

[edit] Open Education Resources

Open education resources are freely available educational materials, usually packaged as entire courses, that can be used for self-study or by faculty who want to integrate them into their courses. Schools like MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, and many others have been offering open-access courses online for some time. Computer science classes have incorporated open education resources for years—not only for course materials, but also for group software projects that give students the opportunity to work on real products. We are now starting to see services that are built around the educational materials themselves—services for review and recommendation, for creating and uploading, for tracking progress, and for communicating with other learners and teachers.

We are also seeing groups of institutions working together to provide access to open education courses, like the Open Education Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org). The OEC, now two years old, provides a portal to high-quality content from over 100 institutions, all organized into complete courses and all available online. Of course, not all open education resources must be complete courses. Services like PocketKnowledge (http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/about) from Columbia Teachers College and Scribd (http://www.scribd.com) invite contributions on a smaller scale from the TC community or from the world in general, respectively.

Related to this is the concept of open courseware and open source software: OKI, Dspace, Pachyderm, Fedora, and Edna are just a few projects working in this model. Increasing support for academic developers is making it possible for educational open source software to be created; the Fluid Project (http://fluidproject.org/), for instance, aims to collect a library of user interface elements that can be incorporated into educational open source software.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Self-study and lifelong learning becomes much more accessible.
• Open education ties into the idea of new scholarship—creating a peer-reviewed course could count toward tenure qualifications.

[edit] Examples

• OER Recommender links to open education resources related to web pages as you browse them: http://www.oerrecommender.org
• Rice University’s Connexions lets faculty create and share educational resources: http://cnx.rice.edu
• Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative offers free online college-level courses in ten different disciplines; the system tracks student progress and can be used by faculty to create their own courses, or for self-study: http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

[edit] For Further Reading

About OER Commons (Website)
OER Commons is a comprehensive learning network of free course materials (K-12 and college). http://www.oercommons.org/about

Video, Education, and Open Content: Notes Toward a New Research and Action Agenda
(Peter B. Kaufman, First Monday, March 16, 2007)
This paper discusses the intersection of moving images, education, and open content, and suggests areas for research. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/kaufman/index.html

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