dl, oer, ocw, and moocs
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Open Education Takes Flight:
DL, OER, OCW, and MOOCS
Prepared for the African Virtual University
17/05/2013
Nairobi, Kenya
Massification of Education
“The need to respond to the demands of massification has
caused the average qualification for academics in many
countries to decline.”
“Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic
Revolution,” UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
Altbach, Reisberg and Rumbley
Massification of Education
Demand for higher education creates
demand for additional higher education
spending.
Revenue
Enhancement ->
Globalization ->
Massification ->
Cost reduction
New markets
Baseline
instructional
quality
License Scope Tech
OER Creative Commons
Material-level content
File Formats
OCW Creative Commons
Course-length content
File Formats
MOOC Mixed Copyright and Creative Commons
Course-length Instructional path
LMS + Video + Quiz Feedback + Peer Assessment + Learning Analytics
Advantages Uses
OER Reuse Material-level content suits integration in other learning environments
OCW Reuse + Course-length Collection
Concurrent learning Self-learning Self-paced
MOOC Instructional Path + Feedback + Analytics
Course replacement Self-learning
Disadvantages Reasons
OER Difficulty of assembly of OERs for reuse
Learning is contextual. It is hard to adopt OERs as they are when the scope is smaller than a full course.
OCW Typically does not include a learner-centric instructional path
It is well-known that learning with feedback is more effective than a content-only approach
MOOC Typical pedagogy is short video followed by a quiz
Peer assessment, while promising, does not work very well currently.
Thank You
Larry Cooperman President, Board of Directors
OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
Member, Board of Directors
African Virtual Unviersity
http://www.avu.org
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Blog: http://thefuture ofhighered.com