TOOLS @ UWindsor

sketching our plans and goals

• Landscape now = SPADE• The vision = TOOLS• The plan = TOOLS STORE• Future = creative, experimental, free-ranging

SPADE

Strategic Priority funding And Distance Education

TOOLShelp us to do moreto do better

TOOLS

• The Office for Open Learning and open ecoSystems

• Commenced from June 2012• Open Learning and online learning• Learning EcoSystems• Strategies, support, capacity building• Partnerships and collaborations

An ecology of open learning for TOOLS

• ecological balance among learning and teaching, research on open learning, service and administrative processes

• demonstration of self-awareness of function and purpose

• systematic processes for collecting feedback from all stakeholders

• self-correction to keep alignment and to maintain an ecological balance focused on learning

TOOLS STORE

• Staged, incremental, constructivist• Team-based• Open Resources• Experimental

future

• CPD and capacity building • OL champions – an OL network• OER repository or portal• Examplar projects to showcase• Pedagogical patterns eg OERs plus niche wraparound,

IT-lite• OER development and sharing• MOOCs, digital narratives, mobile • Collaborative and flexible module sharing around

individual learner needs – via OOI?

open as …

free-ranging accessible and inclusiveusing, adapting, sharing OERs creative and innovative designlearner-centred, learner driven