Keynote presentation of Anka Mulder at AROOC 2011

Universities working together to advance education andempower people worldwide through opencourseware.

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Open Sharing, Global BenefitsNovember 2011

Anka Mulder, President OCW Consortium,

Secretary General Delft University of Technology



I. The OCW Story

II. Next Steps: challenges

III. Examples

IV. Future of OCW


Open access movement

Global movement aiming for free access to public information sourcesGoal:•Knowledge available to all and for free, transparency, low cost


• Open educational

Resources are part

of the Open Acess

movement; so is

OpenCourseWare

Open Content

Open Educational Resources

OCW



The OCW Story —How it Started

President Charles Vest

MIT, 2001

All courses for free,

On line


Mission to advance formal and informal learning

through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials

organized as courses.


http://ocwconsortium.org


advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

Activities of the OpenCourseWare Consortium are generously supported by:

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Sustaining Members of the OCW Consortium:The African Virtual University China Open Resources for EducationDelft University of TechnologyFundação Getulio VargasJapan OpenCourseWare ConsortiumJohns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public HealthKorea OpenCourseWare ConsortiumMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNetease Information Technology Co.Open UniversiteitTecnológico de MonterreyTufts UniversityUniversiaUniversidad Politécnica de MadridUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of MichiganUniversity of the Western Cape

And contributions of member organizations



A lot has been accomplished

How will education change?

What will be the role of OCW?

What is our next step?




It can be fully instructional, but does not need to be.

But OCW does not:

• Provide access to faculty• Grant credit, a certificate,

or a degree.

OCW is composed of…

•Syllabi•Readings•Lecture notes•Tests/quizzes•Lectures (video, audio)•etc…

I. The OCW Story

II. Next Steps: Challenges

III. Examples

IV. Future of OCW


A. Role of Universities Changes

• Middle Ages• Source of information = professor

• Book printing• Source of information = university

• Digital age• Source of information = internet


Gathering information 25 years ago

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Picture by Hans Schleimer, University Library of Graz


Information in the Digital Age

• Example: history of Dutch cuisine• Results 1 - 18 of about 4,920,000 for history of

dutch cuisine. (0.19 seconds)


From an information monopoly to learning facilitator

:• Context: explanation, interpretation of information

• Social interaction• Feedback, examination • Reputation• Accreditation

Universities working together to advance education andempower people worldwide through opencourseware.B. Governments’

Expectations Change:

Student numbers are growingVersus less government funding available

International competition for talent

Bridging the gap between secondary and higher education

Life Long Learning: necessary for a competitive economy

How to make use of the possibilities of the digital age


What do governments expect from Higher Education?

• Teach more students

• For a lower price

• Teach high school graduates as well as life long learners

• Be global



C. Learners’ expectations change



• Motivation– I want education to be interesting & motivating

• Any time, any place– I am a life long learner– I want to combine education & work

• Access– There are millions of me– I cannot afford Higher Education



So

• Higher education changes

• OCW seems to have an obvious role






But OCW does not:


or a degree.



I. The OCW Story


III. Examples

IV. Future of OCW


Growing demand for higher Education..

•450,000 students

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High Quality..

• Stanford University – AI Course – 160.000 students - worldwide



Social interaction,any place, any time

communities of thousands of self learners, studying

OCW together, on line



Be global ..

OpenCourseWare in Water Management:Delft University

– University of Bandung - NUS

• (photograph: FAO/17343/R. Faidatti)


Companies recognise open learning






But OCW does not:


or a degree.



I. The OCW Story


III. Examples

IV. Future of OCW


It is not about how many courses we will publish this year



But about

• Filling in universities’ role as learning institutions, rather that information monopolies

• Addressing governments’ needs

• Meeting learners’ expectations

• Taking new developments into account



OCW as a building block


• Paths of instruction• No fragmentation

• Communities• For motivation• And learning without teacher

• Relations with employers• OCW as a road to a job


Future

• From supply to demand

• From production to consumer

• From courses to learner



Over 250 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education

Universities working together to advance education andempower people worldwide through opencourseware.Board members 2011-2012


Open Learning&

OpenCourseWarewill play a major in tomorrow’s education




Mathematical Bridge by Christopher Chan www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/1016886822

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5-10 March 2012



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