Post on 02-Apr-2018
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Open Educational Resources:Open Educational Resources:Stimulating Global Knowledge SharingStimulating Global Knowledge Sharing
Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D.Dean, Continuing Education
University of California, Irvine
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Director-General of UNESCO,Koïchiro Matsuura
“One of our core missions is to promote thefree exchange of ideas and knowledge; tomaintain, increase and disseminate knowledgethrough our work in education, the sciences,culture and communication.”
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Open EducationalContent Inspired By:• Open Source software movement• Belief that knowledge and education are
common goods• Belief that open educational content will
advance human knowledge, creativity,and social welfare
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Open Educational Resources• High quality digitized materials• Freely available on the web for use and
re-use• Focused on teaching, learning and
research• Tools for creating, using, re-using and
sharing
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The Economics of OER• Much of the existing developed learning
content has:– Low commercial value– High social value
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Japan OCWAlliance
CORE
ParisTech
Universia
MIT, Tufts,Berkman
JHSPHUSU
NotreDame
U Mich
FETP
DAU
UWC
AVU
OCW Movement –Emerging OCWs
• 36 institutions live OCW sites• 35 institutions early development• 11 countries and 6 languages
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Creative Commons Licenses -Growing Adoption
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K-12 OER Projects in thePipeline• High School Advanced Placement Courses – MITE• Science Teachers Training -- National Science
Teachers Association \• Science & Math Teacher Certification – UC Irvine
CSET Courses• Math & Science Courses -- British Open University• African Teacher Training -- TESSA• Multi-national efforts -- European Union
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Theory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESSTO KNOWLEDGE
RemoveBarriers
High-QualityOpen Content
Understandand Stimulate
Use
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Remove Barriers
InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools
- Sakai- EtudesNG- Connexions- Internet Archive- EduTools
IntellectualIntellectualPropertyProperty
- Creative Commons- Stanford U Copyright Determination
Culture &Culture &LanguageLanguage
- UNESCO- Chinese Open Resources for Education- African Virtual University
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Understand andStimulate Use
VirtualVirtualCommunitiesCommunities
- UNESCO IIEP- Open Learning Support
Evaluation &Evaluation &ResearchResearch
- OECD OER study- Berkeley Digital Resource Study- African Virtual University Gap Analysis- ISKME Re-use Study
StimulateStimulateUseUse - Chinese Open Resources for Education- Chinese Open Resources for Education
- Development Gateway- Development Gateway- OER Exchange- OER Exchange
- Widernet
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Understand & Stimulate Use• Organized and searchable
• What users want
• Culturally appropriate
• Disseminate widely
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Goals for 2006• Build out key collections
– OCW, full courses, content areas• Expand use and usefulness
– Portals, distribution sites, translations,partners, research
• Continue building capacity– IP, community tools
• Sustainability – a dilemma
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OER and the CommunityCollege• Community College as Producer
– Natural collection/sharing activity– Piggyback on national effort– Join the club/gain exposure– Change agent– Faculty development