revisioning open education practices and resources
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Revisioning open education practices and resources
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Prof Mpine MakoeCommonwealth of Learning
Chair: OER/OEPUniversity of South Africa
We educate for the future …
Social cohesion
Economic growthDevelopment
Underlying PrinciplesEducation is a fundamental human right and an enabling right
Education is a public good
Education ensures equitable access to life opportunities
Education is about Sharing
Information
KnowledgeInsights
• Mentoring• Public
lectures
Oral Tradition
E Establishment of universities
Middle Ages
Rise of public education
Industrial Revolution
Knowledge as a gift from God (Tuchman, 1987)
Knowledge as a commodity
Massificationof access to knowledge
Knowledge belongs to humanity
Shaping the purposes for higher education
Connecting the higher education ecosystem
Contribution to social and economic development
Designing education for all
Fulfilling the right to education
Crafting flexible and inclusive programmes
Creating and sharing knowledges
Producing knowledges for the common good
Embracing plural ways of knowing and doing
Responding to global challenges
Providing education with a soul
Open
Digital
Collaborative
Personal
Cultural and Epistemic diversity
LICENCING
Any education materials that are freely available under an open license
Desire to learn model (knowledge abundance)
ability-to-pay model (knowledge scarcity)
Conditions (licence) AttributionShare-AlikeNon-commercialNo-modify
Freedom to Access
Copy Use Adapt Share
OER
Types of OER
Content• Full courses• Textbooks• Study guides• Images• Rubrics• Videos• Worksheets• Games• Simulation
Tools• Freely available software
and services that can be used in the creation, development, collaboration, delivery, search and use of open learning content
Why use OER• Digitised content can be shared easily• Encourages collaboration and sharing of knowledge allowing
others to improve on it• Enable innovative approaches of teaching and learning• Reduces costs of accessing learning materials• It eliminates duplication of efforts by building on what
already exists• Strengthen one’s professional reputation by increasing the
impact of your teaching• Universities can market their services • Students are active participants in the learning process
Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
Berlin Open Access to knowledge Declaration (2003)
Open Learning Framework(2017)
Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)
2009 La declaration de Dakar sur les
OER Regional Policy Forum for Africa (2012)
1 • Flexibility
2 • Lifelong Learning
3 • Student centredness
4 • Accessibility
5 • Equity
6 • Inclusivity
Social Justice Principles
Open Education
Economic Justice Accessibility Open Education Resources,Open textbooks, Open access
Cultural Justice Inclusivity Open curriculum
Political Justice Equity Open pedagogyOpen policies
Digital Justice
Explore how Higher Education might look like in future
2017/18
• SDG 2030• Teaching
and Learning
2020
• Covid-19 pandemic
• Teaching, Learning, structures and systems
2021
• Visioning 2050
• Focus on higher education in totality
Rethink Redefine Repurpose
Mission/ purpose
Role in relation to social justice mandate
Workable solutions
Shaping the purposes for higher education
Connecting the higher education ecosystem
Contribution to social and economic development
Designing education for all
Fulfilling the right to education
Crafting flexible and inclusive programmes
Creating and sharing knowledges
Producing knowledges for the common good
Embracing plural ways of knowing and doing
Responding to global challenges
Providing education with a soul
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,unlearn, and relearn.Alvin Toffler
Future Shock, 1970
• Unlocking knowledge and information for the benefit of all
• Widening participation in HE• Promoting lifelong learning• Enhancing the public image
of the institution• Sharing knowledge amongst
institutions• Reduction in the costs of
development and delivery of study material
BENEFITS
Rethinking education beyond Covid19
Strive for an education system that is inclusive, equitable, accessible, and that enables parity of participation to
achieve the education we want
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition
Alvin Toffler
Prof Mpine MakoeInstitute for Open Distance Learning University of South [email protected]