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Update on Open Education Resources
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Sally M. Johnstone
Winona State university, MN, USA
3 June 2007
SCOP 2007, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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Achievements, Challenges & Opportunities
- D.E. Atkins, J. S. Brown & A. L. Hammond (2007)
Open Educational Resources
Materials released under license permitting
free use and/or repurposing by others
Hewlett OER Goals
To help equalize access to knowledge and
educational opportunities across the world
Why OER?
Knowledge as public good + www =
extraordinary opportunity for sharing, use,
and reuse of knowledge and tools to help
others learn.
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Hewlett Investments in OER
Activity
TOTAL
Investment
$68 M
Creation & Dissemination
Reducing Barriers, Stimulating
Use & Understanding
Non-U.S. (in above)
50/50 split developed &
developing
$43 M
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$25 M
$12 M
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OER Movement: Impact to Date
Catalyst for creating OER movement (field &
community)
International consortium with complimentary
roles and systematic balance
Catalyzed a culture of contribution in major
academic institutions
Built capacity for international engagement
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Challenges
Sustainability
Curation and preservation of access
Object granularity & format diversity
Intellectual property issues
Content quality assessment & enhancement
Access infrastructure
Scale-up & deepening impact in developing
countries
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Recommended approach ..
An infrastructure initiative
Fundamentally social and technical ..
An entire ecosystem – not just pipes
and wires
Fostered, not built
Infrastructure results from creating
interoperability between systems
Built on what has already been done;
leveraging prior investments
Potential for significant impact within a decade
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Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure
Developed by ‘searchers’ not ‘planners’ that
adapt to local systems
Not built all at once or globally, but built in
modular increments
Needs a platform for exchange & development
What is minimal framing to allow maximal
potential for growth & innovation?
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Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure Example
Teachers assessing
quality of OER, cost/benefit,
and modify materials
Better
knowledge
Assessing quality and
ensuring continuous
improvement
Feedback
loop
Leading to
Knowledge
growth
Improved
efficiency
Learners using OER and
providing feedback on
effectiveness plus
new materails
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Update on a few current
activities for SCUP members
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Breaking the Language Barrier
Opensource
OpenCourseWare
Prototype System
(OOPS)
Four editors and over
16,000 volunteers
translating OER
materials into
Chinese
LUCIFER CHU
Chinese translator of
"The Lord of the Rings"
By April 2007 OOPS had completed
translations of 178 courses, and more than
600 partial ones. Thirty-five are good
enough that M.I.T. links to them directly.
Another approach to Translation
China Open Resources for
Education (CORE)
– Translating and developing Open
CourseWare through a national
consortium to assist Chinese
universities in OER activities
CORE Members
Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing Normal University
Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics
Central Radio and TV University
Central South University
China University of Geosciences Beijing
China University of Geosciences Wuhan
China University of Mining &
Technology (Beijing)
Dalian University of Technology
Fudan University
Guangxi University
Nanjing University
Northeast Agricultural University
Northeast University Northwest
University
Peking University
Renmin University of China
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanxi University
Sichuan University
Tianjin University
Tibet University
Tsinghua University
University of International
Business and Economics
University of Petroleum - Beijing
University of Science and
Technology Beijing
University of Science and
Technology of China
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Zhejiang University
Open CourseWare Consortium
Over 150 institutional members worldwide
Over 4,200 courses in nine languages
Receiving 2.5 M hits a month.
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Starting to overcome one challenge ….
OER Portal
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Visions for next steps
Continue translation efforts and the exploration
of new models
Continue to seek understanding of design
constraints for wider use
Consider Open Participatory Learning
Infrastructure that develops through
cooperation (not a push model)
Co-lateral learning
Participatory design
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Slide 18
Thank you
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