OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Anna GruszczynskaDarren Marsh

Way forward?

According to  the Horizon Report 2010 by The New Media Consortium, open content is expected to reach mainstream teaching and learning within one year or less.

Global approaches to: - searching for OERs - educational and business

models -addressing possible tensions

Searching for OERs:

Folksemantic resources: OER recommender http://www.oerrecommender.org/ (widget

to add related OERs) Open CourseWare finder - http://www.ocwfinder.org/RSS Feed aggregators: Ensemble aggregator - http://galadriel.cetis.ac.uk/ensemble/ Yahoo Pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com Feed43: http://www.feed43.com/Creative Commons Tools DiscoverED - http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/HEI endorsed tools Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance

- http://www.globe-info.org/

Student-centred approach

Open.Michigan: The University of Michigan’s

Open.Michigan initiative houses several open content projects

dScribe is a student-centred approach to creating open content.

Students work with faculty to select and vet resources

Hybrid Education 2.0

Carnegie Mellon: “Learning is sharing”:

Hybrid application of the open-learning program: combining tutor-led sessions with open content

OERs embedded within the curriculum and credit-bearing content

Interactive and collaborative online-learning experience

Open University’s LabSpace IndieSpace (an area of LabSpace

dedicated to those users who are unfamiliar with how to remix material, upload their own material or use our tools; or those who wish to experiment)

ProjectSpace (an online environment where partners can collaborate on the research and development of open educational resources, this is not a “permanent” home for resources)

SectorSpace(space for showcasing OERs, users also have additional control over the branding of the area )

Blogging openly

University of Mary Washington : •A Wordpress-based publishing platform; space for creating class blogs, course websites, student portfolios

Spotlight on pedagogy: MERLOT content builderTips for Teaching What advice do you

have for others who might want to use this learning resource? What did you learn about using it? How might you revise the resource and adapt it?

Writing tip: this section is particularly important to those who might want to try using this item - what do they need to know to be successful?

Reflections Looking back on this project,

what did you learn about your own teaching when using this resource? What's next on your list in terms of using this resource or in working with others to use it?

Writing tip: what you learned by creating these learning resources is invaluable information to others and may help motivate them to try something new. This is a good place to add links to new projects you are working on, or other information you think would benefit a new or novice user of these materials.

OER issues globally

Between 2005-2007 a Community of Interest of more than 600 members from over half of the 193 Member States of UNESCO took part in online discussions on Open Educational Resources

Developed countries

Developing countries

Awareness raising and promotion

Awareness raising and promotion

Communities and networking

Capacity development

SustainabilityCommunities and networking

Quality assurance Technology tools

Copyright and licensingLearning support services

Capacity development Research

Accessibility Policies

Financing Quality assurance

Standards Financing

Learning support services

SustainabilityPriority issues for developed and developing

country respondents

Tensions of OERs