The Way Forward:OER’s Value Proposition

Barbara ChowDirector, Education Program

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Taking the Open Educational Resources (OER) Beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity

December 1, 2010

Policy Forum

• OER Value Proposition

• Governmental Support

OVERVIEW

RADICALLY REDUCED COSTS

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

http://khanacademy.org/faq.jsp

http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/publications/71

LEARNING EFFICIENCY

ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL

LOCALIZATION AND PERSONALIZATION

1. Facilitate sustainable implementation

• Create incentives for development and re-use• Remove barriers to OER adoption• Fund infrastructure to increase access

2. Integrate openness as a component of public policy

• Require all publicly funded materials to carry a public license

• Publish educational research through open access journals• Make more data publicly available• Support open source software

WHAT CAN GOVERNMENTS DO TO SUPPORT OER?