Learning outcome one:
It describes the current difficulties in environmental education and that everyone should have the ability to think independently.
Blog1: I completely agree with the current educational environment as described by the author. Education today is oppressed by politics, prejudice, capital, society, etc. The point of education is the transmission of knowledge and the learning of independent thinking, i.e. critical thinking, not a factory assembly line that reproduces products set in stone. It is a terrible thing that our minds are controlled by the internet, public opinion and media. We live in a time when it is difficult to be our own independent personalities.Digital education is more experiential and learning style than traditional education.
Learning outcome two:
The differences between open and distributed education are described, as well as the structural framework.
A deeper understanding of the course structure seems to introduce us to the origins, development and models of online courses. After two years of the epidemic, I found myself growing to enjoy taking online courses, most importantly because of the flexibility. At the same time, I worry about the quality of teaching, because that is the most important thing. Although online courses have advantages, is the quality of teaching the same as traditional teaching? In addition, in the current situation, most professors or teachers prefer offline courses.
Among the components of the course, most of them include attendance and participation points, which is a guarantee of online dismissal. While online courses can be done, they require more student initiative. Admittedly, some students are just in the background of the chat room and they may be playing games.
Comments:
Ziwei Xiong:Hi Xu, I agree with you that online learning courses are more flexible, students do not need to learn and work on regular time, they can choose their most desirable periods to learn and work on the materials, that very convenient. I totally understand your worry about the quality of online teaching, students are responsible for themselves when they study in a online course, some students may find hard to focus on their course when they are facing the attraction of social medias.
Yaqi:Hi, Xu. Thank you for sharing. I also have a lot of worries and doubts about online education. However, after practice, I find online learning is more efficient for me.From the imagination, we may feel that the offline attendance mechanism ensures that students will go to classes. But is it really efficient? There are a lot of people who fall asleep, play with their cell phones, or stare in a trance in class. Online education, however, only sets deadlines. Itās up to the student to decide when to study, or how to fragment it. This actually seems to really ensure that students learn efficiently.
Learning outcome three:
Filtering content is a double-edged sword, with one side protecting and the other limiting.
Blog3:The access mechanism of the Internet is designed to protect us from phishing sites, viruses, pornographic platforms, etc. On the other hand, this mechanism has also caused some trouble for people. Chinese students, for example, have to use VPNs to link to foreign websites and even online courses, which creates stress and trouble for learners and makes them lose interest in learning. The damage caused by digital redlining directly limits the future of our students, and in a world of education and post-industrial inequality, the gap will widen. The good is better, the bad is worse. Open education must therefore break through the pressures of politics, capital and discrimination to become a tool for self-directed learning. Open pedagogy is not a panacea for the current crisis challenging higher education, but rather a buffer, albeit a limited one, that is so good that no one has a monopoly on educational resources. After all, free resources cannot compete with paid resources. I really hope that open education will continue to evolve and innovate, and maybe one day people can actually learn what they want instead of being stuck with educational resources. Knowledge should be priceless, and at this stage it is some people who want to learn can’t because of money, environment, international and other reasons, and the world is sad. Knowledge needs to be spread.
Comments:
Professor:Thanks for your post, Xu! I appreciate that you share a strong opinion on the readings. Since this course is about open learning, I want to push back at you on this statement: āfree resources cannot be compared to paid resourcesā. What are you implying with that? In what ways can they not be compared?
Yaqi: Hey XU! To be honest, I also eventually learned the exact definition of open and distributed from this weekās reading. I want to make a quick summary, open is free, distributed costs money! At the same time, I quite agree with you about some of the problems with the Internet. In my opinion, open education cannot be accomplished simply by using some apps. For students in basic education, it may be necessary for schools to build a new platform, or to filter out erroneous and harmful online information. Thank you for your sharing!
Ziwei Xiong:Hi Xu, I think open learning is a way to spread knowledge freely to the public without any regulation, everyone who wants to learn can get their chance to study, but I think free learning resources are better than paid resources because authors of free resources are obvious more interesting in the topic and teaching, they show more effort and pay to share their works.
My response:I actually wrote a long analysis of this issue, but as I was preparing to submit this BLOG, this site came up with an error. My short answer is that while free education is a good thing for people, often free resources only provide a limited, basic, which is not nearly enough. For the whole law of how the world works, something can’t be free, it’s a kind of ecological chain. To use an analogy, students provide tuition to UVIC, UVIC will use the money to pay the professor’s annual salary as well as research costs, and then the professor spreads the knowledge to us. It’s a cycle of conscience.
Learning outcome four:
Practice digital, networked and open literacy to support learning distributed and open learning.
Blog 4:Ā I found that there are 5R activities: RetainćReusećRevisećRemix and Redistribute. This unique advantage of open education allows students to re-evaluate their own work, completion, and so on. He can give students maximum creative freedom and create their own way of learning and thinking. Students are often able to show a stronger sense of being a student, which is incomparable to traditional education. For example, in our traditional education, we finish homework, but we have a better idea, at this time we are often difficult to modify, so open education is so flexible. At the end of the article, the author mentioned that the initial investment cost of open education is more than that of traditional education. As a businessman, I think it is an investment. Zero to one is often the hardest of all things, but once the development is complete, the subsequent costs gradually decrease. Finally, you will make a profit.
Comment:
Yaqi:Thanks for your sharing. 5R is really the best benefit OER brings to us. It extremely decreases the price for students and schools. Thanks to it, more and more students can use free resources and can change them into different types for free. It also help to improve their creativeness.
Ziwei Xiong:Totally agree! I like your idea that cheaper education is a kind of investment for students that hope they can become successful in the future, that offers them a chance to achieve their life goal through the education. OERs can also increase studentsā creativity because they are free to create their own OER or update any that is allowed.
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