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Benefits and challenges of OER for higher education institutions
Cheryl Hodgkinson-WilliamsOpen Educational Resources (OER) Workshop
for Heads of Commonwealth Universities28 April 2010, Cape Town
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Emergence of OER – part of the Open Movement
Open Movement
Open Source Software
Open Access
Open LicencesOpen Science
Open Society
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Emergence of OER in Higher Education Institutions
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Open Educational Resources
The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for
consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes. (UNESCO 2002)
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Open Educational Practices
However, open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning
and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues.
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OER potential & realised benefits: MIT OpenCourseWare
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Potential and realised benefits of OER
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Institutional benefits:Potential and realised at MIT OCW
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Potential & realised benefits of OER: Issues for HEIs
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Email survey: Question 1
• In the light of your experience, how well has the development and sharing of OER improved the quality of teaching and learning materials at your institution? (How is it possible to tell this?)
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Reported improvements in quality
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Quality improvement:Issues for HEIs
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Email survey: Question 4
• In the light of your experience has OER assisted in generating additional funding for your institution and if so can this be quantified?
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Reported reduction in costs
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Cost reduction: Issues for HEIs
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Anticipated and unexpected challenges of OER
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Anticipated & Additional Challenges
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Quality assurance:locus of responsibility
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Email survey: Question 2
• What processes has your institution established to assure the quality of OER developed and shared by your institution?
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Quality assurance:locus of responsibility in survey
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Financial sustainability models
Membership• OCWC• Connexions Consortium
Donations• MIT alumni
Conversion• Connexions
- printing
Corporate sponsorship
• Connexions
Institutional• MIT, OU,
JHSPH, OUNL, UCT
Government• OU• OUNL
Foundation• MIT, OU, JHSPH, OUNL, UCT
Value-add• OUNL
Affiliate agreements• MIT - Amazon
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Email survey: Question 3
• How has your institution’s OER initiative been funded to-date? (If possible it would be useful to know approximately how much and over what period of time you institution has received funding from donor agencies/government/alumni/commercial organizations etc.)
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Financial sustainability models - popular
Membership• OCWC• Connexions Consortium
Donations• MIT alumni
Conversion• Connexions
- printing
Corporate sponsorship
• Connexions
Institutional• MIT, OU,
JHSPH, OUNL, UCT
Government• OU• OUNL
Foundation• MIT, OU, JHSPH, OUNL, UCT
Value-add• OUNL
Affiliate agreements• MIT - Amazon
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Quality assurance, sustainability and the institutional response
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Agency of lecturers... individuals develop and define their ultimate concerns, those internal goods that they care about most (Archer 2007:42)
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Agency of lecturers... individuals develop and define their ultimate concerns, those internal goods that they care about most (Archer 2007:42)
... develop course(s) of action to realise that concern by elaborating a project
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Agency of lecturers... individuals develop and define their ultimate concerns, those internal goods that they care about most (Archer 2007:42)
... develop course(s) of action to realise that concern by elaborating a project
... translated into a set of established practices
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Agency of lecturers
• Sharing knowledge• Develop a reputation
• Develop materials• Share as OER
• Materials design• Technical skills• Legal knowledge
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Institutional responses
• Acknowledge value of teaching and teaching materials
• Infrastructure• Resources• Incentives
• Material design advice and support• Legal advice and support for 3rd party copyright clearing• Technical advice and support - multimedia
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Final thoughts
• Additional research into cost-effectiveness of OER
• Explore and implement a range of funding strategies
• Explore and implement a range of quality assurance strategies
• Reflect on centrality of teaching in the higher education enterprise and decide to raise the status of teaching materials and practices
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Prepared by Cheryl [email protected]
For complete paper see:http://www.col.org/progServ/programmes/livelihoods/Pages/eLearning.aspx#workshops
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Degrees of openness
Hodgkinson-Williams, C. & Gray, E. (2009). Degrees of Openness: The emergence of Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, 5(5): 1-16. Available online: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=864 [26 October 2009].