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The Open Umbrella #39

Open Web-learning opened 9 months ago

Web-learning commented 9 months ago

Tracking the Open Umbrella Project and Progress

Project Lead:

Derek Moore | @web-learning

Mentor:

Harini Lakshminarayanan | @harinilakshminarayanan

Welcome to OLS-8! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program :tada:.

Week 1: Meet your mentor!

Before Week 2: Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

Before Week 3: Meet your mentor!

Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

Week 5 and later

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-4 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

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Web-learning commented 9 months ago

Vision Statement for the Open Umbrella

To work alongside academics and teachers who want to make critical, pragmatic and sustainable use of educational technology among their students. To collectively offer guidance and support and establish educational norms that promote the public good.

What you’re doing

Detken Scheepers from Pretoria University conceptualized the self evaluation app which is dubbed the Open Umbrella. Together we defined eight entry points or dimensions for improving a remote, online or hybrid course. The app uses the eight categories and frames them as panels on an umbrella.

The Open Umbrella is a structure for academics to reflect upon their current courses practices. They self-identify their own levels within the eight categories and record these results as benchmarks, for future reference. I took responsibility for fleshing out these entry points and generating a field guide. I'd like to see this self evaluation app and field guide completely open. Place it on github, to support further ideation, prototyping development

Who you’re doing it for, your audience

I'm doing this for myself. I still think I have something to contribute. And I hope to be joined by like minded people (academics, ed techies, learning designers). From around the world.

Why you’re doing this, the impact or change you hope to make

I believe that higher education should be for the public good. But I'm seeing that HEI's online efforts have been captured by commercial ed tech. Or institutional capacity is being outsourced. And have become beholden to these big foreign companies. I'm looking for departments, faculties or perhaps institutions who wish to resist. Build their own internal skills and capabilities

AletteS commented 9 months ago

Hi Web-learning, this looks like a really relevant project, I particularly like the idea of the badges.

Web-learning commented 9 months ago

Thanks Alette for taking a look. Much appreciated. Yes, I have started to see if I can map a variety of open badges onto the open umbrella. These badges are still very much in draft form and suffer from too much jargon. But perhaps they give an idea of what I am aiming at.