The challenging future of open education

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The challenging future of open education

LEARNING THROUGH SHARING: OPEN RESOURCES, OPEN PRACTICES, OPEN COMMUNICATIONUniversity of Bologna, CILTA 29-30 March 2012

Eleonora Pantò – eleonora.panto@csp.itCSP ICT InnovationDigital Media & Contents Manager

Education is more accessible than ever before in

human history, thanks entirely to the Internet.

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Multiscreen Learning

The digital revolution of Prosumer

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2001-2008FIRST STEPS

FLOSSFLOSS

1998- David Wyley

Open Content- Applying to

digital contents the same

concept of Open Sources

1998- New

licence- Open

Public licence

IntellectualIntellectualPropertyPropertyElearningElearning

1994- Wayne Hodgins

Reusable learning object ,

standard and remixable

Public licence

4 R Models for 4 R Models for

OEROER

ReuseReuse

Redistribute

Revise

Remixhttp://www.creativecommons.it/http://www.creativecommons.it/

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ocw-chart-lrg.jpg

Started in 1999

Focused on the

textbook: open

and modifiable

•1700 authors

•1.2 millions user

month

•190 countries

2002- UNESCO Conference

•OER - Digitized educational

materials offered freely and

openly for use and re-use in

teaching, learning and

research

•Unesco Virtual University,

500 participants from 90

countries

•OER WIKI Unesco Community

•“OER - The Way Forward”

translated in 12 languages

2009-2012

BEYOND THE CONTENTS

Capetown declaration (2008)

Open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexiblelearning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues. It may also grow to include new approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning

http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

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The

OpenCourseWare

Consortium has

indexed more than

4000 high quality

university level university level

courses

Heller, 2010; OpenCourseWare Consortium: Online

The OpenLearn

website hosted by

the British Open

University

provides free

access to over access to over

8000 hours of

learning materials

(Open University: Online)

More than 6000

journals are listed

in the Directory of

Open Access

Journals. Journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals: 2011.

http://www.doaj.org/

Flatworld

Knowledge , the

world's first

commercial

publisher of

open textbooks open textbooks

list over 74

textbooks in

their catalogue

as of December

2010. (Wikipedia

2011: Online)

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

http://openstaxcollege.org/

Open Educational Practices (OEP) are defined as practices which support the production, use and reuse of high quality open educational resources (OER) through institutional policies, which promote innovative pedagogical models, and respect and empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong

OPEN EDUCATION PRACTICES

empower learners as co-producers on their lifelong learning path.

OEP address the whole OER governance community: policy makers, managers and administrators of organizations, educational professionals and learners.

“You are NOT expected to read and watch everything.

Even we, the facilitators, cannot do that. Instead,

what you should do is PICK AND CHOOSE content

that looks interesting to you and is appropriate for

you. If it looks too complicated, don’t read it. If it

looks boring, move on to the next item.”

The learning outcomes will, consequently, “be

MOOC Massive Open Online Course

The learning outcomes will, consequently, “be

different for each person.”

The future of higher education

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75% of public higher learning institutions haveonline education in their long-term plansBy 2019, it is estimated than 50% of all class taughtwill be delivered online and many of these will bedelivered for free

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Today online education is a $34 billion industry

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Is it only about flexibility and lower cost ?

Your institution will be irrelevant by 2020

“an approach to teaching that avoids mainstream tools like Powerpoint and Blackboard, and instead aims to bring

Edupunk

instead aims to bring the rebellious attitude and D.I.Y. ethos of ’70s bands like the Clash to the classroom”

Jim Groom

Changing the attitudes of teacher

According to UNESCO (2009), there were almost 153 million post-secondary students worldwide in 2007, a 53% increase since the year 2000 and a fivefold increase in less than 40years.increase in less than 40years.

The demand for higher education is predicted to expand from 97 million students in

2000 to over 262 million students by 2025.

India alone would need nearly 2400 additional universities

in the next 25 years – or roughly two new universities per

week

Contents

http://www.goorulearning.org/

http://www.oerglue.com/

In the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee, you

could be printing a book

http://opencontent.org/calculator/

Assessment &Accreditation

If there are 500M OER in the world, we need something on

the order of 1.5B OAR

http://www.saylor.org/

http://mitex.mit.edu/

The OER university concept. Adapted from Taylor 2007.

European model

http://www.oer-europe.net/

Self Accreditation

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About

Sustainability

Since 2004 23 million of $

http://www.avu.org/

“People around the world have gone crazy for this

opportunity. Fully two-thirds of my 160,000 classmates

live outside the US. There are students in 190 countries—

from India and South Korea to New Zealand and the

https://www.ai-class.com/

from India and South Korea to New Zealand and the

Republic of Azerbaijan.

More than 100 volunteers have signed up to translate the

lectures into 44 languages, including Bengali.

In Iran, where YouTube is blocked, one student cloned the

CS221 class website and—with the professors’

permission—began reposting the video files for 1,000

students.”

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one

of them. Sebastian Thrun

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/1

A special focus to Italy

• Lack of institutional project for OER

• We don’t have an open university

• Coo-petition is far away

• No culture about sharing.. Education materials • No culture about sharing.. Education materials

are the assets of University

Learning for

free or free

learning?

The real challenge is to give everyone the same

opportunities

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Credits• A special thanks to Antonio Fini for his inspiring presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/anto/contenuti-aperti-per-la-didattica

• Thanks to David Wyley, Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Jim Groom, Philips Schmidt, Susan D’Antoni - inspirers and supporters of the open education movement

DisclaimerDisclaimerThis presentation uses low-resolution images for educational and scientific purposes and not for profit, as provided by Italian Law 2 of 2008.

This presentation is licensed under CC BY-SA ITA 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/i

References• Giving knowledge for free – The emergence of open educational resources –OECD

(2007) http://www.oecd.org/document/41/0,3343,en_2649_35845581_38659497_1_1_1_1,00.html

• Opening Up Education The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar, Foreword by John Seely Brown, MIT Press, 2008 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309

• OER HANDBOOK for EDUCATOR v.1.0 -http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

• OER COMMONS http://www.oercommons.org/• OER COMMONS http://www.oercommons.org/

• Wikieducator http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page

• OER blogs http://oerblogs.org/

• OER Toolkit http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=UNESCO_OER_Toolkit

• David Wiley, Seth Gurrell, A decade of development… in Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Volume 24, Issue 1 February 2009 , pages 11 - 21

• OER U - http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Home

• My collection of link on Delicious regarding OER http://delicious.com/epanto/oer

Thank you!

Eleonora Pantò –

eleonora.panto@csp.it

CSP ICT Innovation

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