The Open Learning Team at UCF
OpenLearning@UCF is coordinated by a group of instructional designers at UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning who have teamed up to support open education across a wide range of academic departments. This team is working diligently to establish an “open” culture among university stakeholders and, through this process, has come up with a few ways to detail the impetus for this work and the vision for carrying it out.
A Treatise on Open
To all who believe education is a right, not a privilege…
To all who seek access as a gateway to growth…
To all who seek an equitable chance to pursue their dreams…
To all who desire to share knowledge when, where, and how they please…
To all who seek to break down barriers to academic freedom and student success…
…to surpass the impasse…
To all, for all, and with all, we stand united at the boundaries of what is expected and what we expect…
…with open minds…open hearts…open hands…
Let’s open education…to all, once and for all…
…dare to be the change for me…
…dare to be the change for we!
Sincerely,
The Open Learning Team (OLT) at UCF:
Current Members
- Jim Paradiso
- Denise Lowe
- Debra Luken
- Suzy Spraker
- Rebecca McNulty
- Lily Dubach (library)
Past Members
- Aimee deNoyelles
- John Raible
- Amy Sugar
Goals (Mission)
This group will enable faculty members to
- discover open resources for teaching and learning,
- identify basic principles of open licensing and its application(s),
- apply mechanisms for open resource adoption (e.g. reuse/remix),
- utilize existing open resources in instructional settings,
- create new open resources for academic use, and
- conduct research on open academic practices.
Objectives (Tasks)
This group will accomplish its goals by
- providing faculty with curated lists of open resources,
- sharing best practices around open and/or “OER-enabled” pedagogies,
- including open educational practices in faculty development programs,
- facilitating instructional design(er) trainings on topics in open education,
- exploring program-level open practices (e.g., Z-degrees for Online UCF), and
- designing valid research instruments to measure qualitative and quantitative impact of open educational practices.
