1. How much transparency should we allow in online education?
Surfing the internet, trying to find something to help me, a bit worried because I didn’t want to copy the information, I found this interesting thought:“Before you start screaming that you’ve already written about this and I haven’t cited you, notice what I’m asking here. I’m giving a talk with the following abstract in a few weeks and am still doing research for the talk. If you have written something on the topic, let me know so I can be sure to include you. If you know of something interesting in this area that you didn’t write, please let me know anyway!” (David Wiley)
Open Educational Resources demonstrate that educational materials are increasingly becoming a free, ubiquitous infrastructure for teaching and learning. The increasing connectivity of teachers and learners via email, SMS, instant messenger, Twitter, Face book and other tools allows us to move beyond “groups” in our thinking of multi-person assignments to a broader, more loosely knit notion of networks. Large-scale, collaborative social networks challenge our ideas of academic honesty but are a simple fact of life that instructors can either fight against or leverage to better support learning.
ReTrying to promote transparency in education there are institutions delivering distance learning programs (as it is the case of Universidade Aberta). Institutions might consider these principles even for a self-serving reason. Transparency can lead to a greater trust in the integrity of people or institutions.
Social networking does not necessarily involve communication, dialogue, or collaboration (Morten Flate Paulsen). Instead, the authors argue that transparency is a unique feature of social networking services. Transparency gives students insight into each other’s actions. Cooperative learning seeks to develop virtual learning environments that allow students to have optimal individual freedom within online learning communities.
2. What are the implications of transparency in online education?
Paulsen argues that transparency is important to distance education. He discusses transparency i
n relation to flexible education with continuous enrolment and examination. A challenge of flexible education is to get students to engage in joint work. Paulsen argues that transparency is a prerequisite for distance students to work cooperatively. Transparency means that students are visible to each other as potential partners and resources.
Watching others learn is an act of learning.
If we see the others materials we can learn with them and at the same time we can always give some input to that materials. This means that we can get a better outcome if we work together.
The other thing is that we can learn with the experts. When we begin a new process, for example in my case teaching, I usually worried about what I consider now as superfluous elements: I considered that quality was the only important thing in education. Nowadays I consider that what is really important is to communicate, no matter if you can make mistakes, because when you communicate you can always learn something. Better to have good and many ideas than to have good and many grammar rules, for example.
n relation to flexible education with continuous enrolment and examination. A challenge of flexible education is to get students to engage in joint work. Paulsen argues that transparency is a prerequisite for distance students to work cooperatively. Transparency means that students are visible to each other as potential partners and resources.Watching others learn is an act of learning.
If we see the others materials we can learn with them and at the same time we can always give some input to that materials. This means that we can get a better outcome if we work together.
The other thing is that we can learn with the experts. When we begin a new process, for example in my case teaching, I usually worried about what I consider now as superfluous elements: I considered that quality was the only important thing in education. Nowadays I consider that what is really important is to communicate, no matter if you can make mistakes, because when you communicate you can always learn something. Better to have good and many ideas than to have good and many grammar rules, for example.
3. What are the pros and cons of global student catalogues?
In my opinion global student catalogues can be a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, that can prepare students to make a difference in the world (and I think we are beginning to see that difference). The open resources put in student catalogues can produce systemic thinkers and problem solvers with a global perspective who will be trained in open resource issues and who will be able not only to learn, but also to teach representing high levels of cultural diversity.
Multidisciplinary themes will be developed in the different contexts of education affecting global open education resource systems.
About the cons I am not so sure but maybe I can think of two:
- Arrangement of information sometimes can be confusing, especially to the novice;
- Students can just copy the information rather than develop.
Multidisciplinary themes will be developed in the different contexts of education affecting global open education resource systems.
About the cons I am not so sure but maybe I can think of two:
- Arrangement of information sometimes can be confusing, especially to the novice;
- Students can just copy the information rather than develop.
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