Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

Re: Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

by Wayne Mackintosh -
Number of replies: 4

Jim Taylor wrote,

The pedagogy of discovery has therefore been designed to enable students to select and evaluate relevant OER content of personal interest appropriate to their needs within the intellectual framework provided by the course structure.

Hi Jim -- thanks for taking the time to post relevant bits from your thinking on appropriate pedagogies for the OERu model. Its good to know that our thinking is based on the work of prominent elearning scholars like Gilly Salmon and the research at the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The institute is one of the leading knowledge incubators working in the technology mediated learning space.

From a purely business perspective-- is worth noting that the pedagogy of discover is scalable for large numbers of learners and paradoxically relatively cheap to implement from a capital course production point of view.

Another point which strikes me is the integration of digital literates into the curriculum. Would it be possible to incorporate a course credit for digital literacies into the Bachelor of General Studies idea?

Looking forward to learning more about e-moderating, especially how we might be able to bring the training of e-moderators into the Academic Volunteers International concept.

Can't wait to start designing, refining these ideas in the real world context of the OERu.




In reply to Wayne Mackintosh

Re: Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

by Jim Taylor -

Hi Wayne

Here at USQ we are developing a course entitled "e-Literacy for Contemporary Society" which will use the pedagogy of discovery.  The course will effectively embed learning literacies for a digital age in the "substantive content" of the curriculum of the Diploma of Arts, which also acts as a pathway to the Bachelor of General Studies. 

Similarly, we are also developing courses that embed these learning literacies into the pedagogy of the following foundation courses:  "Academic and Professional English" (Faculty of Arts) and "Organisational Behaviour" (Faculty of Business & Law) respectively. 

These three courses will be based solely on the use of OERs and all could provide opportunities for students to gain credit towards a Bachelor of General Studies. 

 

In reply to Jim Taylor

Re: Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

by Wayne Mackintosh -

Jim Taylor wrote,

Here at USQ we are developing a course entitled "e-Literacy for Contemporary Society" which will use the pedagogy of discovery. The course will effectively embed learning literacies for a digital age in the "substantive content" of the curriculum of the Diploma of Arts, which also acts as a pathway to the Bachelor of General Studies.

Hi Jim, I'm very interested in the course "e-Literacy for Contemporary Society"

The fact that the course will be based solely on OERs plus released as OER makes it an ideal vehicle for OERu anchor partners to collaborate, including any volunteers outside the OERu network who has an interest in developing an exemplar learning experience in this area.

I think we're onto a winning model here :-)

Wayne


In reply to Wayne Mackintosh

Re: Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

by Dick Heller -
Although less exciting and less innovative than Jim's e-literacy course, Peoples-uni would like to work towards offering a fully OER based unit on Global Health if this was felt to be relevant. No need to reply, just add it to the list if it might fit. Dick
In reply to Wayne Mackintosh

Re: Pedagogical models -- What does open pedagogy for OERu look like

by Jim Taylor -

Hi Wayne

Here at USQ we are developing a course entitled "e-Literacy for Contemporary Society" which will use the pedagogy of discovery.  The course will effectively embed learning literacies for a digital age in the "substantive content" of the curriculum of the Diploma of Arts, which also acts as a pathway to the Bachelor of General Studies. 

Similarly, we are also developing courses that embed these learning literacies into the pedagogy of the following foundation courses:  "Academic and Professional English" (Faculty of Arts) and "Organisational Behaviour" (Faculty of Business & Law) respectively. 

These three courses will be based solely on the use of OERs and all could provide opportunities for students to gain credit towards a Bachelor of General Studies.