H812 Blk 2 - some food for online discussion

The Distance Education Leadership and Management – COL Video Series 2012 is now available on COL’s website. http://t.co/57HI6Vjk

Via Susan Bainbridge

The OERu is an interesting new iniatitive which is looking at reusing and acrediting open content, so Woolongong University (say) accrediting and examining students on open resources published by (say) MIT. A new style of open university which is actually several different universities blending open practice with what they normally do and doing what they normally do differently? The rest of this Scoop.it are the words of Gabi Whitthaus who has been following and researching the early stages of the OERu as her SCORE fellowship:

 

Over the past few weeks, I have been blogging about the interviews I've held with members from the OER university (OERu) member institutions, as well as with senior managers of UK higher education institutions about their views on the OERu concept. These interviews form part of the data-gathering process for the TOUCANS project (www.le.ac.uk/toucans), which I am carrying out as a SCORE fellow (http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/fellows) at the University of Leicester. 

 

Here is the list of the blogs as at 30 May 2012. (More to come... I'll be updating this post regularly with new links.)

 

UK HEI senior managers:

 

“The more flexible we are, the worse it is for the students” (Dave Hall, Registrar of the University of Leicester): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-dave-hall

 

"The big question is: who is going to give the student the qualification and how is that going to be validated?" (Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-martin-hall ;

 

“I look upon this as a playground.” (Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal, Knowledge Management and Chief Information Officer of the University of Edinburgh): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-jeff-haywood ;

 

OERu network members: 

 

“We are focused on meeting community needs.” (Vasi Doncheva, Flexible learning manager at NorthTec Polytechnic in New Zealand): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-vasi-doncheva

 

“We need to have a far more efficient system.” (Wayne Mackintosh, Director of the International Centre for Open Education at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, and Member of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation.): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-wayne-mackintosh

 

“Don’t underestimate the earthquakes… What would happen if the physical university were no longer available?” (Herbert Thomas, Electronic Learning Media Team Leader at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-herbert-thomas ;

 

“We’ll be aiming at a self-contained student who is resolutely going to keep persevering…” (Kevin Bell, ex-Associate Vice President for Learning and Development, College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-kevin-bell ;

 

“I don’t see the death of the university that some people are going on about.” (Irwin DeVries, Director of Instructional Design for Thompson Rivers University: Open Learning, Canada): http://tinyurl.com/toucans-irwin-devries

Via Gabi Witthaus