Talk:Outline of open educational resources

Getting started
Getting started with Outline pages as part of WIKISOO --ggatin (talk) 15:46, 10 September 2013 (UTC) Added a reference to a source about Heutagogy. --ggatin (talk) 16:04, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Citation help
Since there are a number of new Wikipedia contributors working on this page, here are a couple of useful resources for creating citations: -Pete (talk) 16:27, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * How to create nicely formatted citations on Wikipedia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjj4zGTH7U
 * "Cite Book" template with documentation: Template:Cite book

open knowledge vs. public domain

 * open knowledge would be the broader concept, to include practices that are inclusive as well as commonly owned, with public domain providing a specific focus on the issue of intellectual property

open learning vs. open education

 * open learning = open education as the organizing principle


 * does open learning imply informal, and open education imply formal?


 * a single article should ultimately cover both


 * the origins seem really different, with open ed being related more to institutions doing "open things" and open learning being tracked back to movements like Montessori. Clearly they could be re-defined as equal in principle, but I found that difference interesting.


 * the beginning of the movement was often assumed to be MIT's launch of open materials in 2001 (see open education and open educational resources)


 * Open education as a way to organize types of learning experiences that can emphasize access to traditional ed institutions (including Open University historically, MOOCs today), can emphasize open educational resources, and that can promote use of open educational resources in traditional settings or involve a a very broad commitment to open educational practices with specific goals such as open education for development/open learning for development


 * perhaps we can ultimately better differentiate the open learning and open education articles to articulate the historical differences re terminology

hierarchy/ies of concepts

 * leverage Communicate OER into new WikiProject Open, in synthesis with WikiProject Open Access and others


 * OER DOES need to figure prominently. perhaps there are multiple hierarchies here


 * a good help would be to go over how to keep this going (the open project) with reminders about how to get to various places to work on it.

Terms Definitions
MOOCs -- This term began with George Siemens' connectivist experiment of an online course in (2011?). The idea of a MOOC had come about through discussion with Stephen Downes and -- (other people) in order to model open education. The term was then applied to the Artificial Intelligence course offered by Stanford University in (2011?) even though aspects of the Stanford course were not quite open. (? checking this one). Over the next 2 years many courses sprang up which were termed MOOCs, but which were usually not Open, nor Massive, but were simply online courses. In the Association for Learning Technology Conference 2013, Stephen Downes in an invited keynote talk, encouraged a return to the open education ideals, as a need to be filled in the current economic, social, and educational climate. Tbirdcymru (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Structure/Hierarchy
On the class talk page Pete suggests checking further into outline-type articles. WP:WikiProject_Outlines provides an overview, and WP:OUTLINE provides more on developing an outline article. Also the wikimindmap tool generates a mindmap for this article. --Litjade (talk) 19:56, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Article name as parent of the structure
After digesting a little more of the WP:OUTLINE essay, I'm now thinking that the article name should be "Outline of openness in education" to best capture the topmost or parent concept in the hierarchy of OER-related topics we're attempting to construct. The renaming might also help avoid or, at least, identify circularity in using "open education" to define everything else while conveying or, at least, suggesting that dimensions of "open" range across OER-related topics. —Litjade (talk) 14:31, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

P.S. If we reach consensus on the title "Outline of openness in education," we might need to create a further entry in the disambiguation of Open to distinguish from the now stub-class Openness article. —Litjade (talk) 15:38, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Outline template use?
In WP:Outline I saw this topic uncapitalized but have no clue how or if it's appropriate to apply here. —Litjade (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Text moved from article page
As we build the outline structure, I thought it best to move the more descriptive text from the outline here (until we find better placements). —Litjade (talk) 17:52, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Open education as a way to organize types of learning experiences that can emphasize access to traditional educational institutions (including Open University historically, MOOCs today) can promote use of open educational resources in traditional settings or involve a very broad commitment to open educational practices with specific goals such as Open Learning for Development.
 * The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007) describes open education as a movement that "combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint. Educators, learners and others who share this belief are gathering together as part of a worldwide effort to make education both more accessible and more effective."
 * The beginning of the open educational resources movement is often stated to be the decision by Massachusetts Institute of Technology to post some material from each of its courses for free online.
 * open learning is a method or approach that supports open educational practices—including well known programs such as Montessori, as well as newer programs such as School of Open, and other approaches such as cooperative learning, experiential education, augmented learning. Can involve what has become known as open education generally. (need references—pulled from reading pages on the topics as presented on Wikipedia)
 * open educational resources are materials that are openly/freely available and freely licensed including general learning materials, open courseware, open access journals/publishing
 * open educational practices practices that draw on OER can involve resource based learning, open degree design and practices that can move beyond sharing open educational resources, and might help create new and non-institutional approaches to ensuring quality, and "accrediting" proficiencies. "In general, open educational practice is defined as the use of open educational resources in such a way that the quality of educational experiences is raised. ... In a sense, OEP means to put OER to the test by creating educational activities, feedback, and interaction around a piece of open-learning material."
 * Heutagogy is self instruction generally Self directed learning
 * MOOCs: One of the earliest published description of MOOCs was by Frances Bell referring to George Siemens' work. Also cMOOC - in comparison and contrast to xMOOC - although this simple dichotomy is controversial.
 * * Jorum journal on OER — Preceding unsigned comment added by Litjade (talk • contribs) 18:05, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Capturing "openness" debates
Wondering whether a new section in this outline article would/could map out terms used in the various scholarly debates about "how open is open". I think it might help show that the topics of open education and open educational resources are constantly evolving. Litjade (talk) 13:15, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)