open education: from projects to policy, eden webinar 2016
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Open education at the macro level: how could policy help?ALAN TAITPROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENTTHE OPEN UNIVERSITY UK
Open Education
2Open Education and Open Practices
OEP From projects to policy to embedding of sustainable practices Open publishing: articles, journals and books Open text books Open Educational Resources MOOCs Digital revolution is enabler and driver for change Anti-commoditisation: from commodities to commons
Open Education
3Open publishing: articles, journals and booksFrom projects to collaboration and policy
Institutional and Research Council policy now in place e.g. gold and green routes
Open Archives: collaboration drives policy Open Access Journals funded by universities and Professional Associations Much more than projects
Open Education
4Open text books
British Columbia Provincially funded post secondary open text books
See https://open.bccampus.ca
More than project
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5Open Educational Resources
Many! Open Learn has 5m visitors per year OER University But innovative projects with rhetoric run ahead of outcomes Policy not yet embedding innovation or lower cost opportunity
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6MOOCs
35m users world-wide Major insertional policy and commitment Digital innovation feeding back on to campus Many unanswered questions: quality; student persistence;
business model; futures MOOCs have demonstrated enormous demand
Open Education
7Anti-commoditisation
from educational commodities to commons Scandal of publically funded research outputs being paid for
again by public through expensive journals Cost of higher education in North America and England Openness and access inherent in potential of web revolution
Open Education
8From projects to policy: commodity or commons?
Projects vulnerable to short-term financing and exhaustion Policy drives and confirms sustainability UNESCO open education policy is helpful but can be ignored EU ‘Policy recommendations for Opening Up Education’ Some important institutional policies But policy with funding at national levels lacking Risk of exhaustion by innovators and ‘next new thing’ by philanthropic
Foundations Battle for outcome of digital revolution in education: commodities or
commons? [email protected]