User:Idevries/presentation2

= TRU Lunch Presentation =

What it is/what it isn't

 * Sponsored by the OER Foundation
 * Collaboration of like-minded institutions
 * Not a university in the institutional sense
 * Virtual presence in WikiEducator wiki
 * Same wiki as Wikipedia
 * Some distinctives
 * Open peer review
 * Open public input
 * Open educational resources
 * Open textbooks
 * Open file formats
 * Open source software
 * Open enrollments
 * Open awareness

Goals

 * Low-cost learning to all students worldwide using OER learning material
 * Courses and programs based solely on OER
 * Pathways to earn credible post-secondary credentials
 * Models of scalable and low cost learner support
 * Opportunities for new educational models providing value added services in a disaggregated model

Founding anchor partner
TRU has been a member from the very start = Founding Anchor Partner

Implications

 * Contribution of two courses


 * 1) ART 100 Art Appreciation (from Saylor)
 * 2) To be determined (possibly Sustainability)


 * Ensuring course quality


 * 1) For courses contributed by TRU: Faculty review, standard course approvals
 * 2) For other courses: based on OERu quality processes and granting institutions' alternative credit policies
 * 3) OERu principle is to respect all participant institutions' own standards and processes


 * Determining how to give credit for courses


 * 1) Still under discussion by joint committee
 * 2) Options include commercial exams, PLAR (portfolio, assignments, exams, etc.), transfer credit
 * 3) Proposal to take course forward as TRU course

Benefits to TRU
International collaboration


 * Next annual meeting at TRU this Fall - partners from around the world to attend - Sir John Daniel will attend and speak

Access to courses developed by others in OERU

Tremendous learning experience for participants


 * Gets us working hands-on with OER and open educational practices
 * Finding, working with, repurposing, creating OER
 * Getting to know how to work with alternative licensing e.g. (Creative Commons)
 * Working in an open wiki platform
 * Collaborating openly in developing courses
 * Learning open educational approaches from the inside out
 * Catalyst for discussion and change

Advances our Academic Plan

E.g.:


 * Increased faculty engagement in the scholarship of teaching and learning [[Image:Middle_Age-road.JPG|300px|right]]
 * Additional domestic and international degree options, such as dual-, joint-, and Masters degrees, with partner institutions
 * International “virtual or distance” projects and collaborations at the research, operational, and assessment stages, including distance study with other Open and Distance universities and other institutions offering multi-modal learning
 * Enhanced local, national and international partnerships, including programs created with external partners in Aboriginal communities, industry, government, and NGOs


 * Flexible instructional environments, including blended/hybrid delivery models, supported distance learning, service learning, field trips
 * TRU continued development of the use/acceptance of Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
 * The application of principles of universal instructional design