Each participant is invited to generate their own Open Education wicked question in the following form:
How is it that .... and we are .... (simultaneously)?
Open education encompasses: Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Educational Practices (OEP), Open Access (OA), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Open science, Open Pedagogy, Open Policy etc.
Example
How is it that OERu has an award winning OER online course, Learning in a Digital Age to promote digital literacies, and only one New Zealand institution has adopted the course as an elective for a local degree?
Click on the Reply button below to record your wicked question.
Why are we striving for improved efficiency in education yet not funding one of the most efficient models of assessing learning, Assessment of Prior Learning (APL)?
How is it that our learners need and would benefit from open educational resources, and yet our academic staff have completely full workloads that don’t allow for resource development?
How is it that Free and Open Source Software can spark and support innovative practice, and yet NZQA regulations are so restrictive that innovation in assessment and practice is constrained?
How is it that Open Educational Practices encourage cross-organisational collaboration, and yet the ITP sector and the University sector are in direct competition with each other?
Why is it that as educators we want to share knowledge with our students using teaching resources and yet we are unable (or unwilling?) to share with each other across institutions?
Why do NZ tax payers fund the development of higher education course materials at state institutions, but taxpayers have to be paying an institutions for access to those materials? Aren’t they effectively paying twice? (When they could all be openly licensed)…
How is it that we work with excellent educators who want to make a difference for learners, and yet we are struggling to persuade them of the value and benefits of working with the OERu?
Why does NZ have a competitive model for tertiary education institutions which has resulted in “wheel reinvention” with regard to curriculum materials among many other things, creating huge waste time and effort, and a disturbingly wide range of course qualities? Seems extraordinarily inefficient.
How is it that we are adopting biculturalism in our education models yet we are not considering where our student data is being stored (Cloud storage) off-shore in large Amazon, Google or Microsoft servers?
Users of Open education will often engage to learn a specific skill and then move on once this has been done without worrying about assessment or credentialling. This is a valuable educational experience both for them and for society as a whole, but often leaves no trace that will generate metrics indicating the success of the learning experience as it will not be a completion.