OEIT to host ELI Focus Session on Open Educational Content, 9/14-9/15

OEIT invites members of the MIT community interested in learning more about Open Education to join us for the webcast of the ELI Fall Focus Session on Open Educational Content.

Wed. Sept. 14 & Thurs. Sept. 15 (from 12-5:30 each day) in NE48-3027.

Open Educational Content:
Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

Agenda in PDF format

Topics include:

• Open Education and the Obama administration
• Open Textbooks, Community Colleges and open education
• other project updates.

This will be an informal event: OEIT is offering up access to our registration to others at MIT that might be interested. Peter Wilkins and Brandon Muramatsu from OEIT will be sitting in on selected sessions, and are happy to help individuals participate in sessions. We suggest you take a look at the full schedule and email Peter at pwilkins@mit.edu with the sessions you are interested in attending.

from the ELI session description: 

Open Educational Content: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

New technologies, software, and effective practices have increased access to information while new policies and philosophies that explore openness have accelerated that change. The growth of social networks and virtual communities has transformed the learning environment into an interactive place to share and build content and community. The pursuit of open content prompts many questions: What are the opportunities and the challenges associated with open educational content? What are the models for sustaining, maintaining, and promoting open resources? How can we, as a community of teaching and learning professionals, collaborate to realize the full potential of open content? What evidence do we have that the trend toward open content is having the impact we hope for?

Join us September 14 and 15 for "Open Educational Content: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities," the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session, where we will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring initial questions around open educational content. Tour institutional examples of high- quality content development, maintenance models, and delivery and organizational options that support adoption. Through interactive sessions and various case studies, we will:
 

• Define what open educational content is and is not
• Examine the technology trends that, over the past 10 years, have begun to serve as enablers of open content (e.g., mobility, software, the cloud, lower technology costs)
• Address models of authoring and participation in open content use (e.g., delivery and organization issues)
• Review models for assessing the impact of open resources on student success