I went through many changes of open education from this week’s reading. Jordan and Weller (2017) provided a brief outline of systems, philosophies, and technologies and their evolution in open education over the past 50 years (Major, 2015). This made me think about a better option for myself and the students. I perceive that it is important to consider the pros and cons of every method as a teacher or a student. I believe that it is the foremost duty of a teacher to maintain a friendly and challenging environment for students so that it leads them towards success.

An open education program for personal interests is the great aim of the course, expectations of the organization, prior knowledge, experience, and limitations of the students should also be considered. The assembled citation network by Jordan and Weller have will be a valuable resource to refer to if and when I merge elements of open learning into my methods. Learning more about elements made it easy for me to compare systems and see their advantages.

Being a school teacher, some changes can be made in a skillful manner but we are bound to follow others by the educational framework. Moreover, changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers will be favored. The teacher will teach through online classrooms from spring and students are facilitated both online and in-person. They have a choice for both as well. Like every other class, my film analysis  class was also disturbed so I decided to keep myself calm and be easier with the deadlines. Moreover, I gave them work that could be completed on their own. This policy gives more independence to teachers, and by the end of the year, we all concluded that using the same learning policy more and more is very useful. This provides facility to students as it also easy and it allows cooperation amongst teachers and financially it is of great advantage. Most importantly it helps in saving on group licensing (Major., 2015).

As far as my film analysis classes are concerned, I think it was good for some students and a struggle for others as some find difficulty in connecting. I will be appreciating this in future classes to continue to provide chances for students who want to learn and to extend their learning while maintaining the fundamental learning results that I would like all students to gain.

References

Claire Howell Major. (2015). Teaching Online – A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3318874 (pp. 88-105)

Jordan, K., & Weller, M. (2017). Jordan, K. & Weller, M. (2017) Openness and Education: A beginners’ guide. Global OER Graduate Network.