Opening up education the Danish way: Considerations based on the redesign of a Master programme in ICT-based Educational Design

TY - CONF

T1 - Opening up education the Danish way

T2 - EADTU Conference 2014: The Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference

AU - Bang, Jørgen

AU - Dalsgaard, Christian

AU - Kjær, Arne

AU - Donovan, Maria Margaret O

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This paper is based on the ongoing experiment of opening up a Danish Master programme in ICT-based Educational Design to a broader public network of students, teachers and learners.In its present form, the programme is a 2-year full time study delivered in a dual mode of face-to-face seminars and periods of online activities. The programme offers a Master in ICT-based Educational Design to bachelors in teacher training, pedagogical professions and university subjects, who are aiming at teaching in secondary education. The candidates learn to integrate and design digital tools within the teaching and learning practice of their institutions. The objective of the present renewal of the programme is to open it up to a variety of target groups that would connect to the educational content available as open educational resources (OER) in different ways. The expanded target group includes future/former students, students from other programmes, and teachers and researchers from university colleges. In order to have an economic basis for the operation we will still offer the programme for full-time students in a dual mode with full teacher/tutor support and an exam/degree in the end (counted as ECTS and financial support). At the same time the Open Educational resources will be supplemented with a study-guide and offered to the public as a MOOC with very limited tutor support. A special advisory service will be developed for future full-time students using the MOOC as a pre-study introduction. The considerations behind the opening up process will be elaborated in the paper.

AB - This paper is based on the ongoing experiment of opening up a Danish Master programme in ICT-based Educational Design to a broader public network of students, teachers and learners.In its present form, the programme is a 2-year full time study delivered in a dual mode of face-to-face seminars and periods of online activities. The programme offers a Master in ICT-based Educational Design to bachelors in teacher training, pedagogical professions and university subjects, who are aiming at teaching in secondary education. The candidates learn to integrate and design digital tools within the teaching and learning practice of their institutions. The objective of the present renewal of the programme is to open it up to a variety of target groups that would connect to the educational content available as open educational resources (OER) in different ways. The expanded target group includes future/former students, students from other programmes, and teachers and researchers from university colleges. In order to have an economic basis for the operation we will still offer the programme for full-time students in a dual mode with full teacher/tutor support and an exam/degree in the end (counted as ECTS and financial support). At the same time the Open Educational resources will be supplemented with a study-guide and offered to the public as a MOOC with very limited tutor support. A special advisory service will be developed for future full-time students using the MOOC as a pre-study introduction. The considerations behind the opening up process will be elaborated in the paper.

KW - Open education

KW - Open Educational Resources, OER

KW - Online education

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 23 October 2014 through 24 October 2014

ER -