2. Universities in 2016: Open or Closed?
Sir John Daniel

3. Lord Geoffrey Crowther Inauguration of the Open University 1969

4. First Moon Landing 1969

5. Inauguration of the Open University 1969
‘What a happy chance it is that we start on this task, in this very week when the Universe has opened. The limits not only of explorable space, but of human understanding, are infinitely wider than we have believed’
Geoffrey Crowther
Inauguration of the Open University 1969

7. Inauguration of the Open University
We are open as to places. This University has no cloisters - a word meaning closed.
Geoffrey Crowther
Inauguration of the Open University

8. Universities in 2016: Open or Closed?
Sir John Daniel

9. Open as to:
People
Places
Methods
Ideas

11. Universities in 2016: Open or Closed?
Sir John Daniel

13. Left Right

17. Political freedoms are not increasing

18. Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Food
Sanitation
Life expectancy
Poverty
Violence
The environment
Literacy
Freedom
Equality
The next generation
Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

19. Education sustains Progress

21. Higher Education ?
Open Closed

22. Open as to:
People
Places
Methods
Ideas

23. M O O C

24. 25 students on campus 2,300 public - free
MOOCs began in Canada 2008
Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
25 students on campus 2,300 public - free
University of Manitoba

25. Course x6002 Circuits and Electronics
155,000 registrations 23,000 tried first test 9,000 passed mid-term
7157 passed = < 5%

26. A
student of 14
MOOCs

27. My MOOCs - The Mind is Flat (Warwick University)
- Talk the Talk (Open University)
- Start Writing Fiction (Open University)
- Challenging Wealth and Income Inequality (Open University)
- Childhood in the Digital Age (Open University)
- What is a Mind? (University of Cape Town)
- Empire: The Controversies of British Imperialism (Exeter U.)
- Logical and Critical Thinking (University of Auckland)
- Exploring English: Magna Carta (British Council)
- Basic Science: Understanding Numbers (Open University
- Strategies for Successful Ageing (Trinity College Dublin)
- Mindfulness & Wellbeing for Peak Performance (Monash U)
- Cybersecurity (Open University)
- Ageing Well: Falls (Newcastle University)

29. 2012
2016

30. Meaning of every letter is negotiable!

31. Massive = Open to People
Open = Open to Places
Online = Open to Methods
Course = ??????

32. Course x6002 Circuits and Electronics
Not for Credit

33. What is higher education?
Teaching
Learning
Credentials
What is higher education?

34. MOOCs are not in themselves the transformation of HE

35. If Harvard is going online it must be OK!

36. MOOCs are not in themselves the transformation of HE
But they have been the catalyst for that transformation

37. The high-water mark of MOOCs in higher education?

38. ‘Specialist Organisation’ partners

39. MOOCs for Development

40. The Babson Reports Online Learning in US HE 2003-2016
’when more than one-quarter of higher education students are taking a course online, distance education is clearly mainstream'.

41. From Inside Higher Ed - USA

42. The Babson Reports Online Learning in US HE 2003-2016
‘Over 70% of senior academic officers in American universities now consider that learning outcomes in online education are the same or superior to those in face-to-face instruction, while fewer than 30% see them as inferior’ ‘

43. Blended Flexible learning learning

44. The continuum of technology-based teaching
(Bates, 2015)

45. Blended learning
- What mix?
Flexible learning
- How flexible?

46. https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
Tony Bates

47. Babson definitions: % online
80%
Online
29%
Face to face
30% %
Blended (hybrid)

48. Blended learning ‘all combinations of online and face-to-face with between 30% to 80% delivered online’
Hybrid learning ‘the whole teaching-learning system is redesigned to create optimum synergy between the face-to-face sessions and learning online’

49. What does the research say?
asynchronous online learning gives better results than face-to-face teaching.
The superiority of blended learning probably lies not in the online medium itself but in the combination of elements that it uses, resulting in deeper student engagement with the instructional system.

50. What does the research say?
There is little evidence or theory to guide decisions about what is best done online and what is best done in person in blended learning, or indeed when fully online learning is a better option than classroom teaching. or

51. The Law of Equal Substitution
Tony Bates
The Law of Equal Substitution
‘academically, most courses can be taught equally well online or face-to-face’

52. The Law of Equal Substitution
‘other factors, such as cost, convenience for teachers, social networking, the skills and knowledge of the instructor, the type of students, or the context of the campus, will be stronger determinants of whether to teach a course online or on campus than the academic demands of the subject matter'

53. Blended Flexible learning learning
PEDAGOGY ADMINISTRATION

54. Too rigid = break Too flexible = collapse

56. Beware of too much flexibility in:
Timing of study
Variety of outcomes
Unbundling

57. is asynchronous
when
to study?

58. a mechanism to motivate them to give some priority to their studies
when
to study?

59. Beware of too much flexibility in:
Timing of study
Variety of outcomes
Unbundling

60. New Credentials

62. Beware of too much flexibility in:
Timing of study
Variety of outcomes
Unbundling

63. Unbundling higher education
Programme design
Content development
Course delivery
Student support
Assessment
Credentialling

64. Happy world of choice…or…anarchy?

65. Will students want unbundling?
Students want an institution they trust
Faculty like to know ‘their’ students
Institutions like to identify ‘their’ students

66. Rebundling higher education
Programme design
Content development
Course delivery
Student support
Assessment
Credentialling

67. Universities in 2016: Open or Closed?
Sir John Daniel

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THANK YOU
Sir John Daniel
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