Open Educational Resources in a

multi-campus and virtual campus environment

Frederik Truyen, Kees-Jan Van Dorp, Ben Janssen, Jose Rivera, Roger Griset, Ann Kuppens

EduLearn Barcelona, Juli 2011

Partners OER-HE

Multicampus

• “Any higher education setting that involves

delivering study curricula to campuses at different

locations under one institutional umbrella, whether

this is one individual institution or a network of

institutions, and regardless whether the delivery

method is physical, entirely virtual or blended. “

OER-HE multicampus task force

Multicampus• 3 Institutions with very different

approach

Network Open Polytechnic

Virtual Campus

University Association

Motives• Pedagogical Innovation

Network Open Polytechnic

• Course production cost efficiencyUOC

• Regional impact & optimizationLeuven

OER definition

• “Open educational resources are learning content or

tools that are offered free of charge under a

copyright license granting permissions for users to

engage in the “4R” activities: reuse, revise, remix,

and redistribute. In essence, open educational

resources are learning objects that use an open

source license.”

Erik Duval & David Wiley

Reframing Resources

• Open Educational Resources go beyond Learning materials and involve the stakeholder communities and key actors involved in the relevant knowledge domains

• The ultimate Open Educational Resource is part of the social network that warrants the supply chain, validates the knowledge claims, and makes it sustainable and fosters its growth

Teaching Communit

y

Local Stakeholders

andactors

ScientificCommunity

Journals

Organisations

ConferencesExercises

Blogs & wiki's

Course notes

Books

ExpertsProducts

Exploitation

Archives

Libraries

Professionals

Users

StakeholdersPublishers

Assessment

Good reasons for OER

Widening Participation

• LifeLong Learning

• Accessibility

• Reaching out to professional communities

Internationalization

• Enhanced visibility and findability

• Possibility to engage students at a distance

• International collaboration and sharing of workload

Exposure

• For the institution

• For the individual teacher

Quality/Cost Control• Public scrutiny

• Originality

• Benchmarking

• Re-use economics

• Filling the gaps

• Reducing authoring cost

Learning in the Digital Age

• Personal Learning Environment

• Flexible learning

• Remediation of knowledge gaps

• Community translations

Multicampus motives for OER

Stakeholder communities

• Regional expertise networks and knowledge anchor points

• Fostering participation

Mainstreaming

• In a regional context

• feeding the web

Regional Impact & Collaboration

• In a regional context

• feeding the web

Interdisciplinary Research & Education

• Increased exposure of insights to other domains

• Sharing of concepts and methods

• Tracking trends

Thank you!