User:Leighblackall/Models for Free and Open Education

For Open Education 2009 Vancouver

Leigh poked his head up in all this as late as 2004 - about the time Google bought Blogger - giving Leigh a voice through Blogging. He was contracting to tertiary education before that, creating instructional media through Flash and video. Since the rise of social media, Leigh has focused on its use both in formal and informal eucation settings, inventing and testing new models for education at the Otago Polytechnic in Southern New Zealand. This talk will wander through the various discoveries and challenges in the work so far with Otago Polytechnic, specifically the importance of progressive copyright policy, staff use of social media, successful and yet to be successful models for open educational development, and a little bit about the NZ context.

=4 stories=
 * Teacher needing professional development at low risk, maximum flexibility
 * Emerging professional seeking recognition, migration and employment
 * Young school leaver needing a head start into an apprenticeship and trade
 * Self employed small business owner needing short courses on specific areas at minimal cost, maximum flexibility.

=4 models=

Free and open courses

 * Facilitating Online
 * Flexible Learning
 * Composing educational resources

Free and open instruction

 * Youtube cooking
 * Blip Chainsaws
 * Youtube handtools

Free and open content

 * Sustainable business
 * Anatomy and Physiology of Animals

Free and open programmes

 * Travel and tourism
 * Horticulture

=Policy and support=

Progressive copyright

 * Enables reuse
 * Gives assurances to publish

Use popular social media

 * Content outside
 * Learning inside (if necessary)
 * Digital networked literacy
 * Notions of life long learning
 * Addressing the disconnect

=Evaluating this work=
 * Measuring our open education
 * A crisis in faith
 * Socially constructed learning has no place in education
 * The importance and time to develop connectivity and digital literacy is under estimated