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Wed, Apr 15 2015, 10:00am – 11:00am

Authors: Theo Kuechel

Room: Studio 1 Second Floor Main Building

Theme: Open Education in Colleges and Schools

Type: Workshop

Description

There has been a significant increase in the quantity and quality of open resources hosted in online media archives. This can be attributed to the increasing digitisation of cultural artefacts, allied with a global trend towards to openness, brought about by a growing uptake of Open and Creative Commons licences. This new digital landscape is providing some innovative opportunities for learning and research. One recent example of this was when the British Library uploaded over one million images into the public Domain on Flickr Commons.

It seems a fair assumption that many of these collections will be familiar within the Libraries, Museums and Galleries sector, and that Academia will make extensive use of them. However one of the most important groups of potential users; the school and college sector, may be missing out on the pedagogical richness of these resources.

I am developing the “Open Content Toolkit” http://opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com

to harness the educational potential of such resources in a way that extends beyond mere illustrative reference.

Participants in this open media rich workshop will collaboratively explore and discuss the “Open Content Toolkit” It will enable participants to discover where and how to access some of the best Open and Creative Commons licensed educational resources currently available, and consider a number of contextual frameworks for learning and for developing educational resources, which can bring about the pedagogical benefits as listed:

Discovery of resources to be used freely and safely across all curriculum area
Enabling the world today to be viewed through a historical and cultural lens
Augmenting research skills
Developing curation, metadata and tagging skills
Encouraging critical thinking
Understand digital literacy
Developing computational thinking
Providing a context for teaching ICT, Computing capability, coding and web skills
Remixing. repurposing and sharing digital media
Equipping educators and students with a practical and usable understanding of Copyright and IP
Incubating creative ideas for using digital content