Special Events Archive
2008-2009
Innovative Teaching and Technology 2009
Open Education Around the World
M-Learning: Taking the Show on the Road
Creating a Virtual World for Teaching with Second Life
Open Access Scholarship and Teaching
Open Access Week Events:
Innovative Projects in the Publishing of Open Educational Resources
Around the world, universities, regions and national governments are developing innovative projects that make educational resources freely available online. This presentation will present a number of case studies, discussing institutional incentives and the potential benefits from open sharing. It will also introduce the Peer2Peer University, a free online collaborative learning platform that forms learning groups around the open educational resources that exist.
Stian Håklev is a second-year MA student in the Higher Education program. He is a co-founder of the Peer2Peer University, a co-chair of OISE's Open Access sub-committee, and has given a number of international talks on the topic of open education.
Open Access to Research is Coming: What is to be Done?
John Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford School of Education where he teaches courses on knowledge systems, access to knowledge and scholarly communication. He directs the Public Knowledge Project which focuses on extending access to knowledge through online sources such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press (OMP). Dr. Willinsky’s research centers on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED and Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship — the latter of which has won the 2006 Blackwell Scholarship Award and the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.
Innovative Teaching and Technology 2009
15 April 2009, 10:00am-2:30pm
4th Floor, Robarts Library
130 St. George Street
http://www.utoronto.ca/ota/events/ITT.html
Join the Office of Teaching Advancement and the Resource Centre for Academic Technology for the 7th annual conference focusing on Innovative Teaching and Technology at UofT.
Two OISE projects will be showcased:
Adaptive Technology - Curriculum Models for Teacher Education Initial Teacher Education Program
Kathy Broad and Mike Morrow, Initial Teacher Education Program
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/adaptivetech
Web-Based Multimedia Instructional Modules for Elementary Pre-Service Language and Literacy Courses
Dale Willows and Rhonda Martinussen, Child Study & Education
Registration for the event is now open!!
- Showcase of faculty e-learning 2008 projects funded by the Provost’s Instructional Technology Courseware Development Fund
- Keynote panel: The Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning: Lessons Learned
- Mini Clinics featuring Flowgrams and Second Life
Register for the Innovative Teaching and Technology event and you'll be entered in a draw to win a “Videocasting Kit”. The kit includes a USB key, a USB camera for your laptop or desktop computer and a headset. The draw will take place during the refreshment break, 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
Please note: you must be present to win (RCAT staff, OTA staff, and ITT Showcase and seminar presenters are not eligible to win).
More information and registration are available at:
http://www.utoronto.ca/ota/events/ITT.html
Open Education Around the World
View the Video Archive of Jim and Stian's Talk (Creative Commons BY 3.0)
Note: The presentation starts at 2:25. You must download Real Player in order to view the presentation.
Presenters:
Jim Slotta, Associate Professor - Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE (Learn more about Jim)
Stian Haklev, M.A. Student - Theory and Policy Studies in Education - Higher Ed, OISE (Read Stian's Blog)
The term "Open Educational Resources" (OER) was coined at a 2002 UNESCO conference, and refers to the rapidly growing phenomenon of sharing educational resources freely online. Projects have and being developed in several American institutions, and in almost 30 countries. These "open resources" can be accessed by the wide educational community of teachers and students in all contexts, which has the potential to radically expand access to education, but raises many questions. How can pedagogical models and online communities support this kind of learning? Are there ways of providing accreditation for new forms of informal learning?
Join us as we give an overview of the field of open education, and participate in the discussion about this new dimension that will impact Canadian higher education in coming years. We will discuss new opportunities for U of T courses, including the challenge of locating high quality, relevant materials for courses (both online and face-to-face) and of integrating these materials in order to enhance student learning. We will discuss the implications of open education for university educators and researchers, as well as other communities of learners such as those in developing nations or those who wish to organize their own program of study.
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Place: Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (252 Bloor Street West, Room 3-104)
Everyone is welcome but please register as space is limited
m-Learning: Taking the Show on the Road
View the Video Archive of Jim and Arif's Talk.
Presenters:
Jim Slotta, Associate Professor - Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE (Learn more about Jim)
Arif Anwar, PhD Student - Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE (Learn more about Arif)
With ever-increasing power, functionality and availability, cell phones are fast becoming the electronic centers of our lives. Mobile Learning (M-learning) is the exciting new field where education is mediated by handheld technologies such as cell phones. In this session, we hope to introduce you to the enormous potential of M-learning by presenting basic concepts, developing frameworks, providing real-world examples, discussing research in progress and exploring future directions.
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
Place: Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (252 Bloor Street West, Room 3-104)
Everyone is welcome but please register as space is limited
Creating a Virtual World for Teaching with Second Life
View the Video Archive of Ken's Talk.
This event co-sponsored by the Resource Centre for Academic Technology
Presenter: Ken Hudson, Managing Director of Virtual World Design Centre, Loyalist College (Learn more about Ken)
Event description (RCAT website)
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Time: 10 - 11:30 am
Place: Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (252 Bloor Street West, Room 3-104)
Everyone is welcome but please register as space is limited
Open Access Scholarship and Teaching: Why Should It Matter to You?
View the Video Archive of Leslie's Talk.
This event co-sponsored by the Research Advisory Committee of the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Leslie Chan (Learn more about Leslie)
After several centuries of relative stability, the ways in which knowledge is created, consumed, and shared today are rapidly changing. These changes are enabled in part by networking tools and new modes of social production, and in part by the growing movement towards open access to the scholarly literature and educational resources. While innovative pedagogical and scholarly practices are flourishing as a result of open sharing and social learning, there remains serious intellectual, social, institutional and policy barriers to participation.
What then are the key challenges to scholarship in the digital age? What happens when scholars share research openly through institutional repositories, open access journals, and other social platforms such as wikis and blogs? What are the rewards of scholarship and teaching in an open access knowledge ecology? What kind of institutional support and incentives need to be put in place?
The goal of the presentation is not to prescribe answers, but to prompt debates and dialogues on how best to take full advantage of what the open access knowledge environment has to offer.
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 1 - 3 pm
Place: Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (252 Bloor Street West, Room 3-104)
Everyone is welcome but please register as space is limited