open educational ressources (oer), symposium network 6, ecer 2013

12/Sep/2013 | Faculty of Human Sciences | General Education & Media Education | Prof. Dr. Petra Grell | 1

Prof. Dr. Petra Grell

Open Educational Resources – And Their Impact On Higher Education

Network 6, 06 SES 10 Free and Open Learning: From its Merits to Practices


OER and their impact …

„The potential for open educational resources (OER) to transform the global educational landscape is immense.

OER have emerged as one of the most powerful resources to transverse the global education landscape (along with the World Wide Web and the Internet) in the past century.“ (Olcott 2012, p. 283)

Don Olcott Jr. (2012) OER perspectives: emerging issues for universities, Distance Education, 33:2, 283-290, DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2012.700561; OER Global Logo CC by Jonathas Mello


OER activities – OECD Country Questionnaire

„Thus, only one country out of 28 does not expect OER issues to be a policy priority in the near future.“ (Hylén et al. 2012, p. 9)

Hylén, J. et al. (2012), “Open Educational Resources: Analysis of Responses to the OECD Country Questionnaire”, OECD Education Working Papers, No. 76, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k990rjhvtlv-en


OER activities – OECD Country Questionnaire

„Germany has raised a number of fundamental objections to the idea of OER.“

„Germany was the only country who responded that the OER issue is not expected to become a policy priority in the near future. (Hylén et al. 2012, p. 7 & p.9)



OER – Opportunities (OECD Country Questionnaire 2012)

„There are technological, economic, social, and legal drivers behind the expansion of the OER movement. (...) But, most importantly, there is a strong sense in different parts of the educational community that OER offers a major opportunity to promote the notion of sharing knowledge as a public good.“ (Hylén et al. 2012, p. 18)



OER Benefits – OECD Country Questionnaire 2012

•  Open and flexible learning opportunities

•  Increased efficiency and quality of learning resources

•  Cost-efficiency of OER

•  The innovative potential of OER

•  Systemic transformative capacity

(Hylén et al. 2012, p. 18f.)



1.  Promises

2.  Practices

3.  Challenges

4.  Perspectives


Debate on OER – “Sorry, you do not have access to this article.“


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Uptake and reuse in formal contexts

„However, despite the rhetoric about new social and participatory media generally and OER specifically, the reality is that their uptake and reuse in formal educational contexts has been disappointing. “ (Conole 2012, p. 131)

Gráinne Conole (2012) Fostering social inclusion through open educational resources (OER), Distance Education, 33:2, 131-134, DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2012.700563


„Furthermore, the ever increasing technologically rich learning environment in which today’s learners and teachers are immersed is raising issues in terms of social exclusion; the technological divide might be narrower but it is deeper – those not connected or not using these new technologies are being left behind at an alarming rate.“ (Conole 2012, p. 131)

Gráinne Conole (2012) Fostering social inclusion through open educational resources (OER), Distance Education, 33:2, 131-134, DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2012.700563


„Germany has raised a number of fundamental objections to the idea of OER. They question whether a lack of digital content prevents learning, particularly in the case of people with low qualifications, and whether well-educated people will benefit the most from OER.“ (Hylén et al. 2012, p. 7)



The Well-known Gap

„As with participation in adult learning more generally, educational Internet use was structured by age, occupational class and educational engagement.” (Patrick White & Neil Selwyn 2012)

Patrick White & Neil Selwyn (2012) Learning online? Educational Internet use and participation in adult learning, 2002 to 2010, Educational Review, 64:4, 451-469


Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

https://moocfellowship.org

„Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of poverty (...). Nothing has more potential to unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems. And nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms“ (Thomas Friedman, Ney York Times, Jan 26, 2013)


OpenLearnWare – TU Darmstadt


Lecture2Go – University of Hamburg

http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/veranstaltungen/-/v/15206


Creating OER – Collaboration of 250 people

Martin Ebner & Schön Sandra (2013, Hrsg.). Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien. 2. Aufl. Berlin: epubli

URL:http://l3t.eu.

http://l3t.eu/homepage/das-buch/ebook-2013


Creating OER – Collaboration of 250 people

Martin Ebner & Schön Sandra (2013, Hrsg.). Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien. Berlin: epubli

URL:http://l3t.eu.

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Authors


TU Graz (Austria)

http://oer.tugraz.at/index.php/Hauptseite


Schoolbook

http://www.schulbuch-o-mat.de


Society for Media in Science (GMW)(German speaking countries: Austria - Germany – Switzerland)

2010 – GMW signs Cape Town Open Education Declaration 2008 – GMW signs Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

Publishing hybrid: Books are sold, Online (pdf) open/gratis


Critiques

„The critiques outlined in this paper are motivated by a concern for the ways in which learners are being framed by the promotion of OER.“ (Knox 2013, p. 2)

Knox, J. (2013) : Five critiques of the open educational resources movement, In: Teaching in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2013.774354


Knox’s Critiques on OER

1.  An under-theorisation of the notions of ‘openness’ and ‘freedom’

2.  The rejection and privileging of institutional structure

3.  No place for pedagogy

4.  Assumptions of autonomy and self-direction

5.  Alignment with the needs of capital (theoretical framework: Foucault’s governmetality)

Knox, J. (2013) : Five critiques of the open educational resources movement, In: Teaching in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2013.774354


So many perspectives …

The didactic and instructional questions of OER in the field of Higher Education, based on a growing amount of accessible academic perspectives and instructional material, tend to be neglected.

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