oer schools conference - marieke guy
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OER Schools Conference
#OERSCH15 29th January 2015
Welcome!
Chair: Richard Hall
Panel: Bjoern Hassler, Marieke Guy,
Josie Fraser, & Miles Berry
#OERSCH15
Open Knowledge
Promoting open knowledge in a digital age
● A community-based, not-for-profit with projects and
partnerships throughout the world
● We build tools, apps and communities to create, use and
share open data and content - information that everyone
can use, share and build on
● We believe that by creating an open knowledge commons
and developing tools and communities around this we can
make a significant contribution to improving governance,
research and the economy
● Collaboration not control, empowerment not exploitation,
open not closed
https://okfn.org/
Open Education
A welcoming and accessible community
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eelssej_/413385838/
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Traditional EducationMore than learning and teaching..
• Learning: whether through instruction, guided activity or self-directed
learning;
• Teaching: mentoring and all non-instructivist activities around the
deliberate nurturing of knowledge;
• Assessment: any combination of summative, formative and/or
diagnostic;
• Accreditation: recognising learner or educator accomplishment;
• Policymaking: influencing curriculum, funding and procedures in
education; and
• Administration: dealing with recruitment, admissions, retention,
progression, graduation, timetabling, reporting, and management.
• Policy
• Open Education
Resources
• Accreditation
• Licences
• Tools
• Data
• Learning and
teaching practice
Open Education Pie
Open
Education
Working
Group
…established to bring together
people and groups interested in
open education. Its goal is to initiate
global cross-sector and cross-
domain activity that encompasses
the various facets of open
education.
http://education.okfn.org
Open Education Around the World
Series of posts
• Greenland
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• Scotland
• Tanzania
• India
• South Africa
• Rwanda
• Holland …
Europe: Poerup Project
http://www.poerup.info/
UK: OER Research Hub
http://oerresearchhub.org/
http://oermap.org/sector/school-k12/
Ireland: Open Text books
http://bit.ly/1y7A8Gf
Iceland: Education Plaza
http://menntamidja.is/
Phillipines: LRMDS
http://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/
South Africa: Siyavula
http://www.siyavula.com/
Keyword Hypothesis
Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction
Openness People use OER differently from other online materials
Access OER widen participation in education
Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies
Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice
Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions
Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER
Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support
Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study
Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies
Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER
From Beatriz de los Arcos, OER Research Hub
http://slidesha.re/1xKl7H6
Benefits of OER
From Closed to OpenWith Open Educational Resources
Closed content is the default and people need compelling
reasons to replace it with OER. When the norms have
changed, OER will be in the mainstream…. If we want OER
to become the default, we need people to use OER and to
know that they are using OER.”
TJ Bliss, Williama and Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://tjbliss.org/the-doctor-and-the-gym/
