open educational resources (oer): tomorrow’s main educational provider?

Open Educational Resources (OER): Tomorrow’s Main Educational Provider?

IAU 14th General Conference,San JuanPuerto Rico, USA

27-30 November 2012

Gard TitlestadSecretary General

ICDE

To be adressed:

Governments: • Move on the OER agenda• Optimal policy framework for

OER, incentives for OER, develop in dialogue with universities

• Implement the UNESCO declaration in a contextual way

• Map the landscape, facilitate infrastructures.

• Facilitate initiatives for research, new knowledge on effect and impact of OER and on delivering high quality OER

Universities: • Take the responsibility!• Strategies and leadership for

Open Education, for Open Education Practices

• Overview and organisation.• Partnership between Open and

Conventional universities• Build competencies – participate

in research• Flip the classroom for student-

oriented and personalised learning

What is ICDE?

• the leading global membership organization for open and distance education

• an NGO official partner of UNESCO, and shares that agency’s key aim – the attainment of quality education for all

• member focused – ICDE is an organization which will involve members in decision making, in cooperative action and in cooperative problem solving.

• transparent – Members will be able to follow the activities and decisions of ICDE.

• ICDE believes that in pursuing education as a universal right, the needs of the learner must be central.

• senior management in member institutions is actively involved in ICDE

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The ICDEExecutive Committee

Open Educational Resources - OER and Open Educational Practices - OEP

Heard about OER?Know what OER is?

Familiar with OER and OEP?

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 2011)

“... are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain and have been

released under an open licence that permits access, use, repurposing, reuse and redistribution by others with

no or limited restrictions.”(UNESCO 2011)

The vision… At the heart of the movement toward Open

Educational Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world's knowledge is a public good

… and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse it.

Hewlett Foundation

”For the first time in human history we have the tools to enable everyone to attain all the education they desire.”

(Wiley, Green, & Soares, 2012)

Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to

free learning.

Expectations to OER

“OERs have the potential to solve the global education crisis and contribute to sustainable economic growth”

Sir John Daniel, former CEO for Commonwealth of Learning and David Killion, US ambassador to UNESCO said in Guardian in July 2012

Why should universities bother?

OER can increase the impact of investments in knowledge

OER

Open Access – open scienceResearch based OERResearch based teaching

Innovation in education – open innovationInnovate the learning system – flip the classroomKnowledge supply for innovation

High quality educationResearch based educationResource based educationOpen education

Drivers for OER

• The benefits from Higher Education – a gold mine• Demand for access to Higher Education• Financial problems, costs• Failure of the current educational system, drop

outs/push outs• The need for innovation in HEI – innovation in education• Students

Reinventing education: OER an important building block

EDUCAUSE: ECAR STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2012

EDUCAUSE: ECAR STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2012

19% 57%

Governments (OECD) on OER

BenefitsOpen and flexible learning opportunities

Efficiency and quality of learning resources

Cost-efficiency

Innovation

Systemic transformative capacity

Language and cultural sensitivity

Connectivity

Quality

Copyright and licensing

Sustainability

Challenges

Hylén, J. et al. (2012): OECDs “Open Educational Resources: Analysis of Responses to the OECD Country Questionnaire”

Benefits and challenges of OER

Relevance of benefits of OER

Hylén, J. et al. (2012): OECDs “Open Educational Resources: Analysis of Responses to the OECD Country Questionnaire”

ICDE SCOP 2012 – a workings group´s reflections on OER

o Quality assurance concerns – how do DE institutions which are already scrutinized for being DE institutions ensure that OER they adopt does not undermine their existing QA systems (the answer is to ensure that they go through the same QA mechanisms as other course materials)o Cost recovery o Locating OER - it is difficult for institutions to locate OER that is appropriate for their needs (call for more work on facilitating use of search facilities for OER).

From the UNESCO OER Declaration

• Foster awareness and use of OER• Encourage the development and adaptation of

OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts• Encourage the open licensing of educational

materials produced with public funds.

MOOCs”A massive open online course (MOOC) is a type of online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals suggested by open educational resources.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOC

MOOC Mania

The Chronicle's special report on Online Learning 2012

MOOCs have not only created a discussion on disruptive change in HEI, but also increased the momentum of OER.

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So, why bother?

A wake up call is neededfor governments, for

universities

To be adressed:

Governments: • Move on the OER agenda• Optimal policy framework for

OER, incentives for OER, develop in dialogue with universities

• Implement the UNESCO declaration in a contextual way

• Map the landscape, facilitate infrastructures.

• Facilitate initiatives for research, new knowledge on effect and impact of OER and on delivering high quality OER

Universities: • Take the responsibility!• Strategies and leadership for

Open Education, for Open Education Practices

• Overview and organisation.• Partnership between Open and

Conventional universities• Build competencies – participate

in research• Flip the classroom for student-

oriented and personalised learning

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