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HMID 6303: Current Trends and

Issues in Instructional Technology

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A Collaborative Study on the Trends and Issues in

Instructional Technology

Authored ByProf. Dr. Curtis J. Bonk

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Opener # 4Leveraged Resources and

OpenCourseWareSlides Presented by: Imran Chen

Unless specified, all contents in the following slides are quoted, paraphrased, and

synthesized from “The World is Open”.

The slide template is used with permission from http://www.articulate.com

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free, searchable, open access resources and course

contents from experts of world’s top universities…

Do you know …

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….are available in your own home, library and office!

Are you ready for the Open Courseware (OCW)

movement?

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We will discuss ….

1. The OCW Revolution2. The OCW movements:

- MIT, Pakistan, Taiwan & Others3. OCW Offspring

4. OCW and the Right to Education

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1. The OCW Revolution

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Courses, Lectures

Media files

Course Info W.W.W.

What is Open Courseware (OCW)?

Placing of free, searchable and open access university resources

and course contents on the Internet

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Before OCW…Universities compete to divide

and sell pieces of courses through e-learning platform

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Prof. Dick Yue, the key designer of MIT OCW, and

his committee were not convinced the profit-side of

e-learning would make economic sense

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Instead, MIT found a new game plan by offering all its course

contents for free in the Internet

MIT led the way to a free and open side of education called

OCW

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Birth of OCW

Excerpt

“This is something bigger than MIT. …..we very much hope that OpenCourseWare will draw other universities to do the same. …. we have a world wide web of knowledge that raises the quality of learning – and ultimately, the quality of life – around the globe.” (para 17)

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Announcement by MIT President Mr. Charles M. Vest on April 4, 2001, ..…

Retrieved Feb 27, 2010 from http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/ocw.html

Photo retrieved Feb 27, 2010 from http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N16/16ocw.16n.html

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2. The OCW movements:-MIT, Pakistan, Taiwan, China

& Others

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The MIT’s OCW Movementhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

• By early 2009, 1,890 classes online

• 200 mirror sites• 35 million people

since inception• One million visitors

per month

• 750,000 visitors / month to translated courses

• Attracted many new partners, etc.

• Practical feedback and info to validate new concepts, formulas & theories

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The Pakistani OCW Movement• Pakistani youth

learning MIT course contents

• Affordable, excellent supplements

• Materials in CD-ROM, printed and shared

• Use OCW to explore new courses

• Contents translated into different languages

• More organizations & universities are involved in OCW

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OOPS http://www.myoops.org/twocw/

• Taiwan’s Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System

• Mr. Lucifer Chu• 2,200 volunteer

translators in 22 countries

• Translate text & media files to Chinese

• 3rd Organization to sign translation agreement with MIT

• Localizing the MIT OCW web site

• 1,300 adopted courses & 800 completed

• By 2009, expected visitors – over 2.2 m

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OOPS http://www.myoops.org/twocw/

• Translated courses and shared OER from Taiwan on ‘how to survive a catastrophe’ for the 2008 Sichuan, China, earthquake survivors

• Translation process works like Wikipedia

• Global community of practice and spirit

• Different from CORE (http://www.core.org.cn/en/ ) which translates Chinese to English for the world

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3. OCW Offspring

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Some OCW’s Offspring

• View the member page in the OCW Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-members.html)

which consists of institutions, associated consortiums, affiliates and corporation members offering OCW

• Open Yale Courses (not a member to the Consortium) (http://oyc.yale.edu/ ) are available in streaming video or audio

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Some OCW’s Offspring

• National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), an joint OCW project by IIT and IIS, shared video engineering courses in YouTube (http://youtube.com/iit )

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4. OCW and the Right to Education

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OCW – Current Development• Though not credentialed or graded, OCW provides

Level One Knowledge – basic facts and a base of learning

• OCW extended to K-12 education • Availability of Open-access journals, open courses

and open books• The rise of OCW Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ ), OER

Commons (http://www.oercommons.org/ ) , & Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org/) to organize and promote open learning and knowledge

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OCW – Current Development• Emergence of compilations of top OCW for self-

learners: - Online Education Database (http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/ ) - 100 free padcasts from the best colleges in the world- Open Culture (http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html ) - 250 free online courses from top universities

• Abolishment of exclusive control over knowledge rights

• The movement invites more people into the learning community with free and open access

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OCW – Current Development

• Emergence of community of open study groups for short online courses in Jan 2009- Peer-to-Peer University (http://p2pu.org/ ) which promotes ‘Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything’

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OCW – Predictions

• OCW contents become more comprehensive, authentic and interactive

• Contents will find accreditation• Self-designing of repackaged curriculum • OCW Consortium approved certificates

or degrees

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OCW – Predictions

• The OCW /OER revolution and technology have made universal, free and open access to knowledge possible

• Governmental and organizational support, indexing and marketing of courses

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OCW – The Vision

The revolution will fulfill the UN’s provision:‘Everyone has a right to education.

Education should be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stage…..’(Article 26 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Full text of Article 26 available onhttp://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a26

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Last but not least…..

Thank you very muchTo

Professor Curtis J. Bonk For sharing

THE World is OpenWith us and the world

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