Welcome to the Open edX 2019 Conference, hosted by UC San Diego! This year’s theme is all about collaborative learning, and how Open edX enables technologists, educators and learners to collaborate, innovate, and move the state of teaching and learning forward.
Attendees will learn how the University of Adelaide has adapted our content design and technological approach to better suit a model of student co-creation and the three-way collaboration between an academic subject matter expert, a current student, and a dedicated learning designer from our AdelaideX MOOC team. Learn about the successes, failures, and learnings from our collaborative MOOC.
In this review of the production and delivery ratios associated with distance education, we will discuss recent innovations like teacher-bots and the extensive use of OERs that make it possible to reduce the cost of course production and delivery. We will also make predictions about how the price performance of online courses will improve over the next ten years.
UQx has delivered 4 MicroMasters programs via the Open edX platform. The success of these MicroMasters programs has been underpinned by a holistic approach to learning design, media asset creation, custom tool development, and authentic assessment design. We’ve developed tools that allow learners to upload oral video recordings, record audio responses to random interview questions, and receive 360 degree feedback. In this presentation, we will discuss learning design principles and tools to develop learner reflection, critical thinking, brainstorming, and idea integration across courses in a MicroMasters program.
Manager Course Design and Development, The University of Queensland
John Zornig is Director of UQx at University of Queensland (UQ). Located in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI), UQx represents UQ’s engagement in edX the non-profit MOOC platform and provides online learning expertise across the institution. John has over... Read More →
Inclusive design affords equal opportunities to diverse learners by strategically adjusting content to influence how learners perceive the digital environment of a course (Kizilcec, 2017). MOOC courseware allows us to design content experiments that test how the gender, ethnicity, and status (expert vs. peer) of instructors affects outcomes for certain learners. We will discuss our learnings from the two content experiments we conducted exploring how the identity of instructors appearing in course welcome videos affected learners' behavior and outcomes.
Sr. Director, Evaluation & Research, Stanford University
Andy Saltarelli, PhD helps to establish and maintain campus-wide initiatives that evaluate the appropriate use of learning technologies, spur innovative methods of assessment and feedback, and leverage learning analytics for student success. Andy's disciplinary background is in educational... Read More →
In recent years, ASU has adapted the Open edX platform to meet educational challenges for a broad range of projects. We’ve pioneered many innovative educational technology and practices, from providing an earned pathway to full university admission and deploying workplace readiness courses for refugee, displaced, and marginalized learners to creating a suite of personal and professional development courses in multiple languages for employees of a multinational corporation. In this panel discussion, ASU will cover how Open edX has been a critical tool for delivering these socially impactful new programs.
Brian is a Senior Business Analyst at EdPlus at Arizona State University, supporting Starbucks initiatives, including Starbucks College Achievement Plan and Starbucks Global Academy, along with Edge.
Online micro-credential courses are the latest revolution in the field of teachers' professional development. In the session, we will introduce our course model, its implementation on the Open edX platform, and its unique features. We’ll include a live demo of CET's micro-credentials course template, explain our Challenge-to-Competency funnel, and outline how you can initiate your own micro-credential project.
Blended learned can be more than the sum of online and on-campus components. This is a case study across a number of large courses redesigned for blended learning, using Open edX to supplement the University LMS. This talk will cover the implications for pedagogical design, interfaces between online and on-campus experiences, and the Virtual Learning Environment that our team has tackled as part of a major shift from MOOCs to blended courses.
Manager Course Design and Development, The University of Queensland
John Zornig is Director of UQx at University of Queensland (UQ). Located in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI), UQx represents UQ’s engagement in edX the non-profit MOOC platform and provides online learning expertise across the institution. John has over... Read More →
