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Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

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Page 1: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for

Higher Education

Li Yuan

JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Page 2: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

“Open” means…

“Op

en” E

du

catio

nal R

eso

urce

s

Legal domain

Technical domain

Social domain

Open Access: Content is provided free of charge

Open Standards: Produced in open format and with open

source software

Open Licensed: licensed for re-use, free from restrictions to

modify, re-mix and repurpose

Page 3: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Milestones in OER Movement

Page 4: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

A Definition of OER

““digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007)research” (OECD, 2007)

““digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” (OECD, 2007)research” (OECD, 2007)

Content Tools Implementation

Developm

ent &

Delivery

Searching &

Organising

Sharing &

Collaborating

IPR

& C

opyright

Co-produce or P

roducer- C

onsumer

Institution & C

omm

unity &

individual

Full courses & m

odules

Collections &

Journals

Textbooks &

course m

aterials

Page 5: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Funding Models – Stephen Downes, 2006

Page 6: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Different Institution OER Models Centralised Model

e.g. MIT OpenCourseWare

Centralised and Decentralised Model

e.g. Utah State University OCW

Decentralised Model

e.g. Rice University’s Connexions

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MIT OpenCourseWare

Page 8: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Utah State University OCW

Page 9: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Rice University’s Connexions

Page 11: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Openlearn

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Individual OER initiatives

Introduction to Open Education

David Wiley, wiki, a 3 credit graduate-level course

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge George Siemens & Stephen Downes, Moodle & Wiki, English, Spanish,

Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, and Chinese

Multimedia Training Videos Russell Stannard, free learning videos on using multimedia and helping

teachers to incorporate technology into their teaching

Page 14: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

OER initiatives for the General Public

Wikiversity

9,355 learning resources, all levels, types, and styles of education

Curriki

The combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki, a community of educators, learners, and experts;

GLOBE Making online learning resources available to educators and students around the

world.

Page 15: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

National OER Programmes

ParisTech Open Course Ware

Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium (JOCW)

China Open Resources for Education (CORE)

Irish Open

JorumOpen (2009) ???

Page 16: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Issues and Challenges :

Sustainability

IPR & Copyrights

Quality Issue

Interoperability Issue

Page 17: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

“The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.”

Sir Ron Cooke’s Report “On-line Innovation in Higher Education”

Page 18: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Resources Cetis Briefing Paper (2008), Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and

Challenges for Higher Education , http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf

Cooke, R. (2008) On-line Innovation in Higher Education http://tinyurl.com/5vt5lo Downes, S. (2006) Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources, National

Research, Council Canada, http://tinyurl.com/64xqym OEDb (2007), 80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and

Development Initiatives, http://oedb.org/library/features/80-oer-tools OECD (2007), Giving Knowledge for Free: the Emergence of Open Educational

Resources, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6. OECD (2007), Open Content Licensing (OCL) for Open Educational Resources,

http://tinyurl.com/5oh3es UNESCO, 2008, UNESCO OER Toolkit, http://tinyurl.com/5zmnwn Wiley, D. (2006) On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in

Higher Education, www.oecd.org/edu/oer. ZaidLearn, (2008), University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!,

http://tinyurl.com/5hcd5o

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Thanks for your attention!!!

For more information about OER working group and future events at CETIS, please visit Cetis website at http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/ or email Li Yuan at [email protected]

Page 20: Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Li Yuan JISC CETIS, Institute Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Discussion: What technical standards, architectures and tools would be required to make teaching and

learning resources searchable (discoverable), reusable and freely accessible globally? Is there anything we can do simply and cheaply with commonly-used authoring tools to help?

How can we make sure that content is legally ok to share? What do people need to know about creative commons licences? Who should be responsible for checking the copyright, performance rights, data protection etc of the video clip they are about to publish? What should the role of institutions be? What kind of policy in the area of IPR and innovative approaches to copyright could facilitate the growth of OER?

Why do institutions engage (or not engage) in OER initiatives? Why do academics use web2.0 content sharing services like Youtube and Slideshare, and how does that relate to their jobs? How does OER change the existing methods and models for teaching and learning?

What are the existing business models for sustainable open educational content projects? To what extent are the institutional model and community models for OER initiatives compatible and to what extent do they compete? Are there other revenue models within the institutional approach that could be of interest?

Any other concerns on OER initiatives, such as quality assurance of teaching and learning materials, pedagogical issues and accreditation, the importance (or not) of knowing what’s happening to content once its “out there” etc.