Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities

Keith Smyth; Panos Vlachopoulos; David Walker; Anne Wheeler

Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities

Keith Smyth^*, Panos Vlachopoulos, David Walker, Anne Wheeler

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The Global Dimensions in Higher Education module is a fully online open course for educators, jointly developed by three UK universities through a process of consultation and inquiry involving colleagues within the global education sector. The purpose of the module is two-fold. Firstly, to engage academics within and beyond the partner institutions in a critical exploration of transnational and global issues within higher education. Secondly, to provide the project partners with an opportunity to understand and address the challenges of jointly developing and delivering an online course that is to be offered both openly as well as integrated within credit-bearing and continued professional development provision for academics in the partner institutions. This short paper describes progress to date in developing the Global Dimensions in Higher Education module, our current activity focused on validating and implementing the module, and lessons learned to be considered for the collaborative development of open online courses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th ascilite conference 2013 proceedings
Editors	H. Carter, M. Gosper, J. Hedberg
Place of Publication	Sydney (AU)
Publisher	Macquarie University
Pages	826-829
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-74138-403-1
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2013
Event	30th annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2013 → 4 Dec 2013

Conference

Conference	30th annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Abbreviated title	ASCILITE 2013
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	1/12/13 → 4/12/13

Keywords

academic development
cross-institutional collaboration
globalisation and internationalisation of higher education
online learning
open educational practice

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Smyth, K., Vlachopoulos, P., Walker, D., & Wheeler, A. (2013). Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities. In H. Carter, M. Gosper, & J. Hedberg (Eds.), 30th ascilite conference 2013 proceedings (pp. 826-829). Macquarie University. http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/about/proceedings.pdf

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Smyth, K, Vlachopoulos, P, Walker, D & Wheeler, A 2013, Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities. in H Carter, M Gosper & J Hedberg (eds), 30th ascilite conference 2013 proceedings. Macquarie University, Sydney (AU), pp. 826-829, 30th annual conference on Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Sydney, Australia, 1/12/13. <http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/about/proceedings.pdf >

Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities. / Smyth, Keith; Vlachopoulos, Panos; Walker, David et al.
30th ascilite conference 2013 proceedings. ed. / H. Carter; M. Gosper; J. Hedberg. Sydney (AU): Macquarie University, 2013. p. 826-829.

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