Open Education

A Relevant Experiment

Classrooms (including university teacher education classrooms) are often private places

This has its pros and cons!

I’m trying the experiment, this semester, of conducting my teacher education practice in a more open way

Open Education

This process has a few dimensions:

All (most) PowerPoint slideshows from the course will be shared on SlideshareI will blog about my teaching (among many other things) at http://www.bravus.com/blog/ I have created, and will maintain and participate in, an open discussion forum at http://www.bravus.com/tribes/

Open Forum

The forum is primarily intended for students in ‘my’ courses this year – both Semester One and Semester Two

It has the advantage of being able to continue throughout and beyond your time at Griffith

It is also open to the world, which means other people interested in education can be invited and participate – teacher education students and teacher educators elsewhere, practicing teachers and many more

Integration with Formal Courses

Participation in any facet of the Open Education experiment is not marked or required as part of either 7032EDN – Middle Years Science Curriculum or 7801EDN – Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years

Similarly for 7033EDN – Senior Secondary Science 1 and 7035EDN – Senior Secondary Science 2 in Semester 2

Participation is completely voluntary – intended to help you

Research

In the interests of increased openness, I will not be using any ‘data’ (posts) at the forum for research purposes. This means you will not be asked to sign a consent form to participate. (You will be asked to agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of the site when you register.)

I might write about my own experience with Open Education, but will not quote, describe or identify you: I will be writing about myself, for which I give consent.

Who Am I?

Let’s start with a discussion topic:

As I’ll be talking about in the Week 2 lecture, ‘we teach out of who we are’

Learning to teach is an ‘identity project’: a process of developing a new identity as a teacher

We’ll get to your teacher identity soon, but let’s just start with a personal identity – ‘Who am I?’

I’ll get the ball rolling, and others have too