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Professor Sandra WillsPVC (Student Learning)Charles Sturt University
Australia
blending open & free with closed & for fee CC BY-NC-SA
regional university 40,000 students 70% distance education all courses online all courses connect with
indigenous concerns all courses connect with
professional practice
Learning space for developing learning resources, learning communities & digital literacies
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Learning space for flipped and connected
Does virtual replace actual?Simulations: practising skills in professional situations
Role Plays: ethical dilemmas of professional practice
virtual complements actual by scaffolding learner experiencesbefore and/or after actual
virtual connects off-campus & on-campus
Not only aiming for learning resources to be co-created and learning spaces to be connected…. but also
Open
Why offer open resources & courses?ouse of tax payer money for closed purposes is a social justice issue olower cost of university education for disadvantaged learnersoattract students not currently in reach, especially international students
What is Credit-by-Examination?
“What you know is more important than how or where you learned it.”
Credit-by-examination (aka credit by assessment) allows students to prove their knowledge, regardless of how that knowledge was gained, by taking an exam.
Exams designed for credit test content equivalent to common college-level courses and undergo rigorous quality control.
Developed and maintained by Excelsior College since the 1970s.
Administered at 4,000 Pearson Testing Centers worldwide.
Exam fees = $95 - $415, depending on length and format (no separate seat fees).
Excelsior College Examinations (ECEs) & UExcel Exams
Five Steps to Low Cost, High Quality Bachelors Degrees
Identify
requirements
to be
completed Match work
needed to
available forms
of assessment
Pass
assessments
using OER
study material
Complete
Capstone
course
online
Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458
Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458
Cost of Credit by Challenge Exam
Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458 Cost of Credit by RPL
Why use open resources & courses?ocost efficiencies in course development by blending local content with open contentointernationalisation of course contentointernationalisation of learning interaction
Acknowledgement: Judith Murray, at the time Vice President, Open Learning Thomson Rivers University, Canada
More questions than answers at this stage…
not only about developing MOOCs & OERsmore about reuse of other’s MOOCs and OERs within your coursesmostly about assessing & crediting other’s MOOCs and OERs as pathways into your degreehow far should we go?
Degree
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Blending: open subjects in a degree open resources in a subject open students in a class open platforms & institutional LMS