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Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Opening Doors to Knowledge and Education
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Catherine M. CasserlyThe Hewlett Foundation
July 17, 2007
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Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Amartya SenThe elimination of “unfreedoms” – with respect
to knowledge, education, health, etc.
Investment in human capital creates positive multiplier effects on family and next generation.
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Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
A Challenge: Too Many on the Outside, Looking In
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Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
The Promise
The Progress
The Obstacles
The Future
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The Promise
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
What is OER?• High quality educational content and tools• Open on the Web• All languages• Usable and re-usable• Available on any device
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The Vision:
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• Equalize access to knowledge
• Dramatically improve teaching and learning
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Types of OERsOpen…
CourseWare…courses…books…journals… images…video lectures…textbooks…podcasts…lesson plansencyclopedias
Efforts in…
India,Vietnam, China, Europe, Africa, United States, Canada, Brazil
Universities, K-12, libraries, publishing
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• Free, available to all any time, any where.• Creates opportunities for use and re-use
• Allows localization (translations, changes for different audiences)• Allows corrective improvement and other feed back (fast feedback loop leading to rapid development)
Added Value of OERAdded Value of OER
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The Progress:
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global OER repository:
open to contributions from authors worldwide
XML technology enables remix into customized web courses and inexpensive print textbooks
peer review for quality control
Creative Commons attribution license enables commercial use and sustainability
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Place exemplars into a “remixable” space to seed the creative process
Open University UK sandbox for educators and learners
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The Obstacles
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Some of The Obstacles
• Intellectual Property
• Localization and Translation
• Interoperability
• Sustainability
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Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption
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Sustainability: Leveraging the “Long Tail”
Example – Prelinger Videos, Eve Gray from HSRC in South Africa
“Big Hits”
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Translation: CORE, OOPS and Universia
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The Future
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
A Revolution in Learning
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
More bandwidth, increasing processing power, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid growth of mobile devices, decreasing costs…
Increase capacity to access, collaborate, personalize, and create
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Create, Share and Improve High Quality MaterialsFast feedback loops that engage rapid cycles of
improvement of teaching materials: textbooks, lesson plans
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Learn by DoingTo become a scientist, architect, or computer
programmer…must learn to think and practice like one
Surgery SimulatorDiscover BabylonMIT iLabs
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
Accelerated Learning: Cognitively Informed Web- based Instruction
Opening the World to Knowledge and Education
UN World Food Program: Food Force
Federation of American Scientists: Immune Attack
Carnegie Mellon: PeaceMaker
Immersive Teaching and GamesLearn through structured play
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Current ThinkingCurrent Thinking
Teaching& LearningExamples
Infrastructure
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• Support organizational arrangements (e.g.) OCW Consortium
• Supporting standards setting efforts• Creative Commons – IP issues• Convening and network building• Communication
Infrastructure – Possible Infrastructure – Possible ComponentsComponents
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Concrete and Significant Concrete and Significant Examples of How OER can be Examples of How OER can be Used to Accomplish Teaching Used to Accomplish Teaching
and Learning Goalsand Learning Goals
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• Maximize use• Sustainability• Use and re-use• Quality – different ways of ensuring• Addresses a social problem• Substantial significance – both the
problem and the demonstration
Criteria for thinking about Criteria for thinking about ExamplesExamples
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Opening The World to Knowledge and Education
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