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Catherine M. Casserly, Program Officer Marshall S. Smith, Program Director
The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationOctober 26, 2006
Open Educational Resources:Revolutionize Theories of Learning
Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura
“If the world community’s special concern is to overcome the digital divide in order to build knowledge societies, then this is precisely what UNESCO is all about. One of our core missions is to promote the free exchange of ideas and knowledge; to maintain, increase and disseminate knowledge through our work in education, the sciences, culture and communication.”
Model of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESSTO KNOWLEDGE
Remove Barriers
High-QualityOpen Content
Understand and Stimulate Use
High-QualityOpen Content
Goals for OER:• Equalize access to
knowledge• Improve teaching and
learning• Foster innovation and
creativity
Open…CourseWare…courses…books…journals… images…video lectures…textbooks…
Efforts in…Europe, China, India, AfricaUniversities, K-12, libraries, publishing
Three great strengths of OER
• Open (Free) for viewing on the web – equalization of opportunity for access of knowledge
• Open for downloading, and modifying (use and reuse) –personalization, cooperation, cultural and linguistic appropriateness, innovation and creativity
• Ability to rapidly loop materials (continuous improvement) – many small contributions
“…give teachers and learners everywhere the ability to access and human rights share teaching materials, scholarly publications, scientific works…thereby achieving economic efficiencies and raising the quality of education through a noble and global endeavor.”
Chuck Vest
Cognitively Informed Web based Instruction
Provide Immediate Feedback in the Problem Solving Context
New outlets of creativity
Learn by doing
Personalized experience
Mix and remix
Collaborative creativity
Place exemplars into a “remixable” space to seed the creative process
Open University UK sandbox for educators and learners
High quality educational content accessible…
Also downloadable, reusable and remixable
Remove Barriers
• Intellectual Property – Non Commercial• Localization and Translation• Interoperability• Dissemination – Mobile phone/PDA content• Sustainability
Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption
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Understand & Stimulate Use
• Organized and searchable
• What users want
• Culturally appropriate
• Disseminate widely
Open the archives and follow the “Long Tail”More usage and revenue possibilities
What are the “non-hits” in your archives?
“Players watch one another’s videos, record their own –multiplies the channels by which musical innovation circulates” – NY Times
Iterate toward excellence