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Three focus areas: (1) leading through open and collaborative practices; (2) building capacity through shared and collaborative services; (3) inspiring innovation through investment in research and development. [See pp. 22, 26ff]

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Open Education (OE) Fellows lead action research focused on open education and contribute to the broader development of the open community in Ontario

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Ontario Extend is a capacity building initiative that is grounded in the belief that the impact of learning should be the primary motivator for creating technology-enabled and online learning experiences. It aims to empower educators to explore a range of emerging technologies and pedagogical practices for effective online and technology-enabled teaching and learning.

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The Open Faculty Patchbook
The Open Learner Patchbook

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The Open Faculty Patchbook is a community 'patchwork' of teaching skills and experiences. Each 'patch' has been written by a professor in higher education and is focused on one particular pedagogical skill. Together, these patches create a how-to-teach manual for higher education that is openly licensed and available to anyone. As mentioned, each chapter covers one pedagogical skill. We began our search for pedagogical skills to cover with the University of Michigan's High Leverage Practices, but the scope of the patchwork does not end there. It is dictated by those who want to contribute their skill.

The faculty member who authors a chapter offers their take on it. They describe their learners and learning environment and how they deploy or use the skill in that space. It includes instruction on how to use the skill situated in a real example. There is a suggested template, but faculty members who sign up to co-author the book can take it from there.

In August 2017, the first manual was published, focused mostly on in-class instructional skills. Many of the patches, however, or transferable to online teaching. We are now ready to focus on other things like digital pedagogy as well as an entire separate patchbook focussing on the stories of how learners learn. In this session, we will showcase the work already done, and solicit the help of the participants in creating the next iterations of The Patchbook. Including The Open Learner Patchbook.

This whole idea has been inspired by an amazing project by Robin DeRosa: The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature and the benefits of open educational practices.

If you'd like to add to one of the Patchbooks, we'd love to have it! Send a tweet @greeneterry for details.

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The Open Faculty Patchbook is a community 'patchwork' of teaching skills and experiences. Each 'patch' has been written by a professor in higher education and is focused on one particular pedagogical skill. Together, these patches create a how-to-teach manual for higher education that is openly licensed and available to anyone.

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What is it?

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eCampusOntario has embarked on a bold mission to widen access to post-secondary education and training in Ontario. The organization is succeeding in turning this vision into reality with the help of technology-enabled learning strategy that makes programs and courses from our 45 member institutions easy to find and consider before learners apply and register for classes.

Our open textbook library provides access to free learning resources in a wide range of subject areas. These open textbooks can be assigned by instructors for their classes and they can be downloaded by learners to mobile devices, or printed on demand at a nominal cost. These free and open educational resources are customizable to meet a wide range of learning needs, and we invite instructors to review and adopt the resources for use in their courses.

We also support post-secondary educators throughout Ontario with workshops, conferences and resources. Everything we do at eCampusOntario is grounded in the belief that the impact on learning should be the primary motivator for creating technology-enabled and online learning experiences. Through our funding and professional programs, we aim to empower educators to explore a range of emerging technologies and pedagogical practices for effective online and technology-enabled teaching and learning.

David Porter, Ed.D.
CEO

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eCampusOntario has embarked on a bold mission to widen access to post-secondary education and training in Ontario. The organization is succeeding in turning this vision into reality with the help of technology-enabled learning strategy that makes programs and courses from our 45 member institutions easy to find and consider before learners apply and register for classes.

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Blended open education in the humanities

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eCampusOntario has published an extensive library of open textbooks.

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Note the advances in open education supported by eCO.

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Open textbook adoptions

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Online learning portal

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Online portal courses

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Ontario Extend

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Research report