Open Education Resources (OER): what, why, how?
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Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning
Open Education Resources (OER):
what, why, how?
September 17, 2015
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Plan A Decade of OER Lessons Learned COL Contributions Future Directions
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A DECADE OF OER
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UNESCO HQ Paris
2002 Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and in some instances, re-purposing by others
Atkins, Brown & Hammond, 2007
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What are Open Education Resources (OERs)?
Materials that are Free and freely available Suitable for all levels Reusable
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World Congress on Open Educational Resources
Paris – June 20-22 – 2012
Paris Declaration
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The 2012 Paris OER Declaration drafting group at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Paris Declaration on OER Foster awareness and use of OER Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a
variety of languages and cultural contexts Encourage the open licensing of educational materials
produced with public funds.
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Why OER?
Reduces costs Enhance access Improve quality
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Access: Malawi
Bunda College of Agriculture 102 page Communications Skills textbook 75% OER Adapted by adding contextually relevant
materials, activities, assignments
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Access: translation
CORE COL ID template translated and adapted by Open University of China
COL materials in Ukrainian
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Can OER contribute to Quality?
611 institutions in India – KSS Women’s Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh – Maya Devi Educational Foundation, Uttarakhand – Bhilai Institute of Technology, Chattisgarh
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OER and Textbooks USA: Utah Open Textbooks project: $5
per printed and zero for online content South Africa: R 1.5 billion for
textbooks: Department of Basic Education decides to develop OER textbooks.
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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
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Surge in secondary education Need for skills development
1. Beyond Higher Education…
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2. Harnessing the potential of Mobile technologies Connectivity is less of a concern in Higher
Education sector Digital divide still exists at the primary
and secondary education levels
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3. Multi-directional exchanges
University of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology
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4. Open Licensing: More Advocacy
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Creative Commons
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Key Trends
More developing countries join the OER movement From policy to practice Open Textbooks Multi-lingual OER available OER in MOOCs
OER
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COL CONTRIBUTIONS
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What does COL do? Advocacy Policy development Capacity building Publications
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Advocacy
Southern Africa Regional Policy Advocacy Workshop – May 2013 – 11 SADC countries
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COL Resources
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Policy Development: the Caribbean ICT in Education policy developed
with COL assistance – April 2013 Integrates specific provisions related
to OER – The Ministry of Education will adopt a CC
attribution license as the default for all material produced with public funds.
– Will encourage all development agencies and foundations operating in Antigua to do the same.
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OER for open schooling (OER4OS)
Schools Teachers Consultants Ministries of Education
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OERELT in Kenya
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Quality Guidelines for Open Educational Resources
Teaching and learning processes
Information and material contents
Presentation, products and formats
System, technical and technology
http://www.cemca.org.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/OERQ_TIPS_978-81-88770-07-6.pdf
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Directory of Open Educational Resource (DOER)
Open Educational Resources directory service Only full courses
catalogued A service provided
by COL
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OER for MOOCs
Mobiles for Development Audio MOOC for
Gardeners MOOC on MOOCs
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ISSUES
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1. The Digital Divide (Commonwealth countries)
Source: Latest data from International Telecommunications Union Database http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Reporting/DynamicReportWizard.aspx
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Proportion of households with Internet access Proportion of households with Computer access
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the network society…. is a major source of the structuration of power relationships. Manuel Castells
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Justin Reich in https://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/open-educational-resources-expand-educational-inequalities/
2. Open Educational Resources Expand Educational Inequalities
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Open Educational Resources Expand Educational Inequalities
… teachers working in schools serving low income students simply can't make as much use of…. the technology ….. because they lack the planning time, broadband access, etc. In this model, schools with greater fiscal and human resources have more capacity to take advantage of even free and open resources.
Justin Reich in https://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/open-educational-resources-expand-educational-inequalities/
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3. Challenges for Stakeholders
Teachers: difficult to locate, adapt, and re-purpose OER material relevant to their work. Learners: OER should be more open and multi-
modal. Technical support: lack of standard practices in
the packaging and re-use of OER. Management: concerns regarding intellectual
property; copyright issues and competition OER Survey, Asia, 2011 (WOU, IDRC)
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4. Involvement of stakeholders
Involving different stakeholders to participate, collaborate, create and share; Encouraging consumers to become
the producers of knowledge; Involving teachers and students
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POLICY & PRACTICE
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Swaziland can
Develop a dynamic ICT in Education policy Propose a vision and strategy for OER at all
levels of education Recognise OER-development at par with
academic publications to reward faculty in promotions
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OER Policies
South Africa: Draft Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities (Page 28, MHET will establish a Task Team that will play an awareness-raising and advocacy role around the use of OER)
Mauritius: Education and Human Resources Strategy Plan 2008-2020 (page 119, 1.3 promote e-learning and Open Educational Resources)
India: National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER)
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Institutions can
develop an OER policy elaborate a policy on copyright provide incentives for faculty members such
as increments and recognition of OER-development towards promotions develop a strategy for involving stakeholders
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From your perspective: What are the THREE most pressing
challenges for adopting OER? How do you propose to overcome these? What would be your THREE key
recommendations for Swaziland?
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