The Potential of Open Educational Resources DG EAC TWG ICT and Education, BXL, 20-22 January 2013 Christine Redecker Jonatan Castaño Muñoz
Why study OER? Because OER can solve ALL the problems education faces today! 1. Really? 2. How? http://www.openeducationweek.org/why-open-education-matters-1/
What are OER? OERs are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an open license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution (UNESCO, 2012) free (no cost) use, re-vise, re-mix OER accessible (open/public) Share, re-use, re-distribute The 4R of OER Open Educational Resources are digital learning resources offered online ( ) freely and openly to teachers, educators, students, and independent learners in order to be used, shared, combined, adapted, and expanded in teaching, learning and research. (OECD, 2012)
Key Dimensions Efficiency Cost Access free (no cost) Content accessible (open/public) OER use, re-vise, re-mix People Share, re-use, re-distribute Personalisation Collaboration Quality
Different Sectors = Different Challenges
OER Inititatives CONTENT PEOPLE HE SE AE
Two main initiatives Higher Education OCW MOOC OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of university-level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet (OCW Consortium) MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are free courses without enrolment restrictions delivered over the web to potentially a huge number (thousands) of students at a time. It's a Course, so it includes: It's not a course, it's only the materials. Interaction and feedback: - Low teacher presence - xmoocs (automated feedback e.g. quizzes) vs. cmoocs (student collaboration) Assessment (quizzes or peer) but not Official Credentials CC licenses. It allows the use, reuse and distribution of materials. Initially the idea of MOOCs was implement the courses with OER. However, materials of more successful Moocs (xmoocs of Top Universities) are under CR licences. So, are they Open?
Example MIT OCW Higher Education OCW: MIT
Example Coursera Higher Education MOOCS: COURSERA
Current trends Higher Education transition to formal courses add (paid) services (e.g. teacher support) certification ($) Efficiency Cost Access Content OER OCW MOOCs People Personalisation Collaboration (Students) Quality
Current Trends in Secondary Education Digital textbook initiatives Efficiency Cost Access Content OER People Personalisation Collaboration Quality Teacher Networks
Example Free Digital Textbooks Digital School Initiative Greece Repository that gives free online access to all textbooks for all levels of school education in the form of enriched e-books. E-books produced with a fixedprice by corporate publishers after an open competition. http://digitalschool.minedu.gov.gr/ Focus on cost savings Materials not suited or intended for modification
Example Collaboration Wikiwijs (NL) Search Create Share Wikiwijs is an open, internetbased platform, where teachers can find, download, (further) develop and share educational resources. [ ] Educational resources are developed by teachers, for teachers. [ ]The scope of Wikiwijs is the whole Dutch educational system: from primary schools up to the universities.
Current Trends in Adult Education & LLL Efficiency Cost Access Content OER People Personalisation Collaboration Quality
Example 2nd Chance Education Andalucia - Spain http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/permanente/materiales/index.php?mat=12
Example 2nd Chance Education Andalucia - Spain
Example Free VET courses Alison (Ireland) Financed through advertisements ALISON is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides highquality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. http://alison.com/ ALISON stands for "Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online"
Challenge 1: Who s paying?
Challenge 2: Accessibility Who is helping teachers? Who is helping learners?
Challenge 3: The Leap from OER to Open Education OER as such do not lead to innovation in Education and Training. What about new pedagogies? What about ubiquitous learning? What about the certification of informally acquired skills?.
Conclusions Efficiency Cost Access free (no cost) Content accessible (open/public) Adult Education & LLL School OER HE use, re-vise, re-mix Education People Share, re-use, re-distribute Personalisation Collaboration Quality
Thank you very much for your attention! Christine Redecker Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz Christine.Redecker@gmx.de Jonatan.Castano-Munoz@ec.europa.eu http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/eap/elearning.html
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