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OportUnidad 2014Concepts, Oportunities & Networks
Carolina Rossini, VP for International Policy at Public Knowledge
Founder of the www.rea.net.br (2008)Monterrey, Mexico
June 10 and 11, 2014
Demand for Higher Education
“Nearly one-third of the world’s population (29.3%) is under 15. Today there are 158 million people enrolled in tertiary education1. Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million2 in 2025.
Accommodating the additional 105 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years.
1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures2 British Council and IDP Australia projections
By: COL http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocume
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Student Debt / Perceived Value
(**) Even bigger challenges in the Global South
Key challenges facing education in the Global South
Growing numbers of students in the education sector
Education institutions under financial pressure
Limited teaching and learning resources
Employability of graduates
“Social inclusion has today a new and important dimension: digital inclusion. Digital inclusion is an
attribute of citizenship: a new right in itself and a way to ensure basic rights to people, such as free expression and
access to culture and education. For Brazil, digital inclusion is a tool to ensure that citizens and institutions have the
means to access, use, produce and distribute information and knowledge through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) so that they can participate actively in
Information Society, as receivers and providers of knowledge.”
Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at UNECO OER@Paris Conference
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Content
Tools andPlatforms
Intellectual Property
“4Rs” – Freedoms
review
remixredistribute
reuse
The OER 4 freedoms
Reuse the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form
Revise the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
Remix the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
Redistribute the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others http://opencontent.org/definition/
Interoperability (legal and technical)
as essential conditionfor new institutions
= An issue of design
www.google.com.br/advanced_search
http://search.creativecommons.org/?lang=pt
Find, Use & Share
GNU General Public License:The use of IPs to create freedom
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“An open license is one that allows anyone to access, reuse, modify and share the OER. The
use of open technical standard for OER platforms and files improves access and reuse
potential of OERs which are developed and published digitally.”
most free
least free
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Políticas Públicas
ComunidadeEducação em
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http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
$500 million – Round 2($2 billion over four years)
A Growing Library
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Mission Driving Growth
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Adoptions
$9.3 MILLION SAVED!
Europeana: 30M metadata items under CC0, 5 million digital object with PDM and 2.8 million digital objects under one of the CC licenses
Higher Ed(by: Cable Green)
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OER Enhances Academic Freedom
• OER provides faculty with more choices for their courses• OER allows for permission free editing and adaptation• OER prevents faculty from being locked into a particular
platform or system
At the course level:
In the market place:• OER should not be legislated or mandated• OER needs to stand on it’s own vis a vis publisher material
CC BY: OpenStax College
X Limits access
Digital Rights Management:
Open Licenses:
Unlimited Access (never expires) Unlimited printing/use across devices Encourages sharing on informal learning networks
Digital Rights Management
CC BY: OpenStax College
Translations & Accessibility
Customization & Affordability
There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
www.projectkaleidoscope.org
The Vision
100% of students have
100% free, digital access to all materials on day 1
Drive student success by designing, adopting, measuring and improving OER-based courses
www.projectkaleidoscope.org
• Open education policy: Governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make taxpayer- funded educational resources OER.
• Open content licenses: OER should be freely shared through open licenses which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing.
• Collaborative production: Educators and students can participate in creating, using, adapting and improving
OER.
Strategies for OE
5 Challenges of OER
(1) Faculty Doesn't Know what To Do with OER(2) Not Everyone Trusts Free Resources
(3) Expectations Around OER Quality are High(4) Institutional Processes Aren't Always Flexible
(5) No Effective Discovery and Assessment OER Tool
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/04/24/5-Hurdles-to-OER-Adoption.aspx?Page=2
College Leadership:
• Add OER / OA to strategic plans;
• Open Policy on discretionary grants;;
• Support faculty: time/money;
• Make this a Univ-wide conversation
• Make heroes out of open leaders;
• Track & report cost savings, KPIs;
• CC licenses on your MOOCs.
http://roer4d.org/
Research on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Development
in the Global South
• In what ways, and under what circumstances can the adoption of OER address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality and affordable education and what is its impact in the Global South?
Overview of the ROER4D projects 7 Project Clusters
ROER4DNetwork hub
OER Desktop overview
Survey of OER adoption by academics & students
Academics’ adoption of OER
Teacher educators’ adoption of OER
OER adoption in one country
OER impact studies
Baseline educational expenditure
New
ROER4D Objectives1. Build an empirical knowledge base on the use and impact of OER in education2. Develop the capacity of OER researchers3. Build a network of OER scholars4. Curate and communicate research to inform education policy and practice
Call for proposals: Impact studies
www.oer-impact.net
• Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
• CAD 50 000 each• 18 months• South-North
partnerships
if you care about the emergence of knowledge
federation systems that allow broader access to knowledge, you may have to have some kind of intervention…and not wait for organic emergence.
Inclusion/cooperationWide dissemination of education contributes to
more inclusive and cohesive societies, fosters equal opportunities and innovation in line with
the priorities of a renewed social agenda focused on the knowledge society. In this sense, this study brings a series of recommendations to
foster this dialogue.
Paul Baran (1964)
the opposite of open isn’t “closed”
the opposite of open is “broken”
“It just takes all of some of us!”
@wilbanks