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The need for Open Educational Resources for Mobile Learning

Rory McGrealUNESCO/COL Chair in OER

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License(some images fair use)

Rory McGreal Fred Mulder

UNESCO Chairholders in OER Partners

“… technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER Definition• “Open educational

resources are materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone” (OER Forum)

OER for Development Goal of developing together a universal

educational resource available for the whole of humanity… hope that this open resource for the future mobilizes the whole of the worldwide community of educators”

UNESCO 2002

Internet is the biggest commons

Public domain is a priceless, shared heritage wikimedia

Mobile Ubiquity

Wireless Access

Mobile Ubiquity

+2 billion Internet connexionsWorld population: +7 billion

¼ of the world’s populationhttp://www.soil-net.com/album/Places_Objects/slides/Globe%20Planet%20Earth%20NASA.jpg

Internet Users2006

Developed

Developing

Developed

Developing

2011

Developed

Developing

International Telecounication Union 2012

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

0

10

20

30

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Individuals using the Internet (in millions)

Individuals using the Internet per 100 inhabitants

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ions

Per

100

inha

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nts

Global numbers of individuals using the Internet, total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011

International Telegraph Union 2012

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100 Global ICT developments, 2001-2011

Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions

Individuals using the Internet

Fixed-telephone subscriptions

Active mobile-broadband subscriptions

Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions

Per 1

00 in

habi

tant

s

Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

Europe The Americas CIS* World Arab States Asia & Pacific Africa0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

68.4

53.4

40.7

32.529.1

25.5

12.4

Individuals using the Internet per 100 inhabitants, 2011

* Commonwealth of Independent StatesRegions are based on the ITU BDT Regions, see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.htmlSource: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

500

1,000

1,500

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2,500

0

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Individuals using the Internet (in millions)

Individuals using the Internet per 100 inhabitants

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ions

Per

100

inha

bita

nts

Global numbers of individuals using the Internet, total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011

Mobile Signal Coverage

Percentage of the world's population covered by a mobile cellular signal, 2003 compared to 2010

2003

39% not covered

61% covered

Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

2010

10% not covered

90% covered

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

Mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011

Developed

World

Developing

Per 1

00 in

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s

The developed/developing country classifications are based on the UN M49, see:http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.htmlSource: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

Mobile Telephony2000

Total 719 million

Developed

Developing

The developed/developing country classifications are based on the UN M49, see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.htmlSource: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database

2005

Developing

Developed

Total 2.2 billion

Mobile-cellular subcriptions, by level of development

2011

Total 6 billion

Developing

Developed

CIS* Europe The Americas Arab States World Asia & Pacific Africa0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160 146.0

120.8

105.4 96.9

85.7 76.7

53.1

Mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, 2011

* Commonwealth of Independent StatesRegions are based on the ITU BDT Regions, see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.htmlSource: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

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70.3

34.1

20.5

Developed

World

Developing

%

Percentage of households with Internet access by level of development, 2002-2010

The developed/developing country classifications are based on the UN M49, see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.htmlSource: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

Mobile Ubiquity

4.5 billion mobile subscriptions1.5 billion mobile internet users

1/3 only access internet via mobile

90% of world population is covered by cellular

More time spent on Internet

with Mobile

than with desktops

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1048/1022720488_0a1b779fc8.jpg

Modern learning is not possible without the skills for accessing and using the Internet

Why OER for Mobile Learning?

OERRe-usable?

Adapted from Parmentier, 1999

Re-purposable?

Interoperable

DRM

• Digital Rights Management)• Digital licenses

digital restri

ctions management?

DRM (Digital Rights Management)You CANNOT• Copy & paste, annotate, highlight• Text to speech• Format change• Move material • Print out• Move geographically• Use after expiry date• Resell

Swiss-copyright.ca

Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA

It is illegal to circumvent protection mechanisms(or even criminal) & to even share information on how to circumvent protection

Digital Licenses•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight• Text to speech or hyperlink• Format change• Move material to another computer• Print out• Move geographically• Use after expiry date• Resell

• Prohibited to show your content to others • Must accept that you have NO rights

• Owners have NO liability even if product doesn’t work• Owners can “invade” your computer without permission• Collect & use personal data• User has a “privilege” to use the product not own it

Open ETextbooks•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight √• Text to speech or hyperlink √• Format change √• Move material to other computer √• Print out √• Move geographically √• No expiry date √• Reuse/Remix/Mash √

•Retain privacy and digital rights √√Essential fo

r Pervasive learning implementations

Copyright Then and Now• THEN• It didn’t apply to many

things• Few people were

affected

• NOW• It touches everyone• You can hardly spend an

hour without copyright

Lawrence Lessig

Everything triggers copyright

Yourdictionaryblogspot

Access Rights?Vendors can control how, when, where, and with what specific brands of technological assistance audiences are able to access content

You buy but you don’t get

“corporations, governments, every vested monopoly is worried about the disruptive power of computing”

The restriction of the commons by patents, copyright, and databases [right] is not in the interests of society and unduly hampers scientific endeavour.

PAPAL ENCYCLICAL“On the part of rich countries

there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

PAPAL ENCYCLICAL“On the part of rich countries there

is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

God is on our side

General Eric Shinseki, retired Chief of Staff, U. S. Army

rory@athabascau.caAshanti

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