The Open Source world shows how volunteer collaboration can lead to
great products and to great learning. We want to further explore at this
workshop what happens using approaches from that community to break barriers
between teachers and learners for today's Internet-savvy young people to design
and co-construct sites for participatory learning.
The aim of this workshop is to explore the barriers for this type of
learning in higher education settings. Content
creation, knowledge exchange, community dynamics, and the impact on the
boundary between formal and informal education are key subjects of this
workshop!
Research in Open Source from an educational perspective indicates
that the success of Open Source as a learning ecosystem is less related to state
of the art technology used within such Open Source communities, but rather
relates to organizational aspects. Many of the technologies and tools featured
in Open Source communities are today applied within educational settings. The
focus of this workshop will therefore be on the conceptual and organizational
side, though new technological perspectives are welcome as long as they fall
within this scope.
Workshop Programme
8.45
Workshop welcome
9.00
Invited talk: Open
source community and business - how to make it work? - Abstract
A new Connectedness and Openness in
Education, the Emergence of Open Course Scenarios and an Ever Blurring Border
between the Formal and the Informal – where does this lead us to and how to
respond to it?
Rüdiger Glott1,
Sulayman K. Sowe1,,Andreas Meiszner2
(1) UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands; (2) Institute of Educational
Technology, The Open University, UK
12.00
Lunch
13.00
Knowledge Café 1:
The Emergence of Open Courses: Understanding Open Education by drawing
on the Open Source Case - watch
the presentation at slideshare
Andreas Meiszner1, Rüdiger Glott2,
Ioannis Stamelos3, Sulayman K. Sowe2
(1) Institute of Educational Technology, The Open
University, UK; (2)
UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands;
(3) Department of Informatics, AristotleUniversity, Greece
14:30
Break
14:45
Knowledge Café 2:
Open Source Communities, Open Educational Approaches & Beyond: Organisation,
Skills, Revenue Models and Self-Sustainability
Imed Hammouda1, Andreas Meiszner2,
Timo Aaltonen1, Andrea Capiluppi3, Rüdiger Glott4,
Sulayman K. Sowe4,Ioannis Stamelos5
(1) Tampere University of Technology, Finland; (2)
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK; (3) University
of Lincoln, UK (4) UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands; (5) Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
(Joint
session with OSCOMM workshop)
16:00
Workshop close
Important
Deadlines
15 February 2009
Intend to submit
27 February 2009
Submission of proposed papers
09 March 2009
Results to Authors
15 April 2009
Camera ready copy due
3-6 June 2009
OSS 2009 Conference in Skövde,
Sweden
06 June 2009
D4PL Workshop
Organizing
Committee
Andreas Meiszner
Ioannis Stamelos
Rüdiger Glott
Sulayman K. Sowe
Address:
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, UKMK7 6BJ
Department of Informatics, AristotleUniversity
Campus, 54124
UNU-MERIT, 6211 TC Maastricht The Netherlands
Phone
+351960148400
+302310991910
+ 310433884400
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There is an ever growing number of researches conducted in Free /
Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), representing a solid starting base to
examine how some of the underlying FLOSS principles might be transferred to
higher education. FLOSS communities increasingly influence teaching and
learning, and content quality and delivery at a rate unprecedented in the
history of both software development and education. From the "FLOSS
perspective" it becomes obvious that traditional educational approaches,
but even the Open Educational Resource movement falls short in some points
related to the opportunities the participatory web provides, in particular
related to content, support and underlying tools. Most strikingly, the
traditional way of resource creation using the traditional role distribution
models that clearly distinguishes between educators as creators and learners as
consumer is still predominant. Given the number of research available on FLOSS
on the one hand and the growing landscape of initiatives aimed at opening up
education and experimenting with novel approaches on the other hand it would be
desirable to reflect on ways on how to build upon the lessons learnt from the
open source success.The workshop therefore aims at addressing a number
of aspects, such as:
How can
traditional education better master the challenges of new learning
opportunities provided by the Internet and its communities, such as the
open source software community?
How to
systematically combine formal and informal learning within an unfettered
informal learning environment?
Which are
suitable approaches to course sourcing that are open in the sense of
interaction between students from various institutions and individuals
outside of formal education?
How can
principles of decentralised and self-organised learning be applied to Open
Educational Resources to create comprehensive, sustainable open and participatory
learning ecosystems?
Which are
the challenges and opportunities once blurring the boundaries between
formal and informal education?
How could
formal education monitor properly the learning processes and outcomes
within such learning environments?
What might
be new higher education revenue models associated to such models? Would
e.g. the assessment and certification of free learners be a way to
establish self-sustainable business models? Which other scenarios might be considered?
Computer
Science Education & Open Source projects are an obvious candidate for
such type of learning, how to maximise mutual benefits and which are the
possible application models?
About OSS2009
The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems will take
place from 3-6 June 2009 in Skövde,
Sweden
Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has
had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create,
distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged the
conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business
communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has
become an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives.
OSS is a
complex phenomenon and requires a interdisciplinary understanding of its
engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.
The goal of OSS 2009 is to provide an international forum where a
diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public
administration can come together to share research findings and practical
experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education
to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an
ongoing platform for technology transfer
