To help you plan your participation the conference program schedule can be filtered by date, venue, session type, and session format using the Filter functions.
Filter by Date lets you look at a specific day of the program. Filter by Venue lets you look at the program by venue rooms where sessions are taking place. Filter by Type lets you look at the program by track. In addition to keynotes and breaks the program is made up of three main tracks or types of sessions Pedagogy, Roles, and Strategies. Clicking on a type in Filter by Type lets you see only sessions of that type in the program schedule. In addition, Pedagogy, Roles, and Strategies each have a set of associated topics. Topics appear when you hover over a type name in the Filter by Type area of Sched. Topics are clickable allowing you to further filter the program by topic. Session Format lets you view the program by types of sessions - Action Labs, Lightning Talks, Posters, Presentations, and World Cafes.
The conference program is rich and diverse representing the current state of open education around the world.
An online learning environment using Open edX named "KoALA" was launched in April 2018 at Kyoto University as a Small Private Online Course (SPOC) environment. By using it, instructors can provide their online learning materials for on-campus students. Like Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), lecture videos, grading assignments, and other educational resources can be provided as a single course through KoALA. Also, KoALA can offer online learning materials in flexible formats according to instructors' needs such as those for flipped learning, remedial education and so forth. Some of the courses are open to the public if the purpose of the course is a social contribution, potential student acquisition and so on. A feedback session between the instructor, course production team and educational assessment team is held after each course end date by use of learners' course survey results and learning activities from analytics tool provided by Open edX. The session works as an opportunity for instructor's reflection and course improvement and plays a vital role in sustainable course offerings. This process of feedback is employed in our MOOC project. As our university has been offering MOOCs through edX, a large part of processes can be similarly applied to an on-campus case. In this presentation, the background and process of building the online learning environment and unique practices by using it will be introduced. Also, prospective of such an environment are discussed especially in terms of the difference between MOOC and SPOC.
