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This work has a potentially wide impact as it can apply across disciplines, and at all levelsof education, as evidenced by the case studies and the application trials presentedthroughout the work. Free/Open Education is an emerging field, which is interdisciplinaryin nature, drawing on educational sciences, on computer science and technology, and on‘open’ principles in particular.The work investigates the nature of Free/Open Education with a particular focus at acourse level. The Open Educational Resource (OER) movement has been largelystrategically driven at institutional levels. More recently one can observe however a furtherdevelopment within the educational domain that might be broadly characterized as ‘OpenCourses’. These attempts, unlike the OER case, seem to be mainly driven at the individualeducators’ level, but are not strategically addressed at the institutional level. Such ‘OpenCourses’ seem to experiment with a range of different educational approaches, to promotedifferent levels of openness, incorporate different sets of free and open tools and learningresources, and – to a varying degree – mix formal with informal learning, bringing togetherdifferent stakeholders to be found on the web.The first part of this work develops an initial understanding of the nature of Open Coursesand identifies different types of Open Course scenarios through means of desktop and casestudy research by looking at established practices of courses within formal education thatoperate to a certain degree ‘in the open’ and by means of desktop research targeted atexamining related ‘Open’ approaches, such as the Free/Libre Open Source Software(FLOSS) Learning Ecosystem.The second part of the work identifies requirements for Open Course design and deliveryand develops and tests a supportive organizational framework that builds on the Meta-design framework and Courses as Seeds process model. This second part of the work applied participatory action research and the use of focus groups to stimulate reaction toideas, to ask participants for solutions and to allow ideas to be built cumulatively. In the
final part of this work a hybrid organizational framework for open course design ispresented aimed at guiding educators in their course design and delivery process.
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The Emergence of Free / Open Courses - Lessons from the Open Source Movement
This work investigates the nature of Free/Open Education with a particular focus at a course level. Initiatives such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare marked the start of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, a movement largely strategically driven…
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