Improving Trust in OEP – Towards Knowledge and Resource Exchange Across Borders

Jan M. Pawlowski

28.11.2012

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Jyväskylä, Finland

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Global Information Systemsat the University of Jyväskylä

Focus areasGlobal Information SystemsSupporting globally distributed workgroupsOpen Educational ResourcesReference Modeling

E-LearningSupporting international education settingsCultural adaptationStandardization & Quality Management Mobile & Ambient LearningInnovative tools and solutions

ProjectsOpenDiscoverySpace: Open Content and Scenarios for SchoolsOpenScout: OER for ManagementTELMAP: Technology ForecastingNORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and TrainingCOSMOS: Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific ContentASPECT: Open Content and standards for schoolsiCOPER: New standards for educational technologies

Key Question

How to exploit the enormous potentials of Open Educational Resources?

How to improve the re-use and sharing process?

Experiences from our Case Study: Sharing of materials made by

othersWhose Materials would you use?

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100,00 %

Colleagues atthe same school

Colleagues fromthe same

geographicalarea

Colleagues fromelsewhere in my

country

Colleagues fromoutside my

country

Finnish Teachers

European Teachers

Clements, K., Pawlowski, J.M. (2012): User-oriented quality for OER: Understanding teachers' views on re-use, quality and trust, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012.

Sharing: Who would you give your materials to?

Who would you give your materials to?

0,00 %10,00 %20,00 %30,00 %40,00 %50,00 %60,00 %70,00 %80,00 %90,00 %

100,00 %

Colleaguesat the same

school

Colleaguesfrom thesame

geographicalarea

Colleaguesfrom

elsewhere inmy country

Colleaguesfrom outsidemy country

None of theabove

Finnish Teachers

European Teachers

Clements, K., Pawlowski, J.M. (2012): User-oriented quality for OER: Understanding teachers' views on re-use, quality and trust, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012.

But…Overall, the willingness to share materials with other teachers is high

Willingness to share across Europe countries is high, the context seems positive

But: It still does not work…

I Trust Resources...

0 % 10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

only if I have reviewed them myself

if the resource is in my own language

if I’ve seen a preview of the resource

have been reviewed by colleagues / scientists inthe field

which have been used very often

which have received good rankings

from an organization with a good reputation(e.g., CERN, Harvard, Nasa)

from an organization which has a QualityCertificate (e.g., ISO 9000)

can be integrated in my Learning ManagementSystems / my web page

if the resource has a full metadata attached to it

The solution? Finding resources!

Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use

Usefulness? Quality? Rights?

The solution? Finding people!

Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use

Trustworthiness?

Usefulness: Parameters

ContentTopicContextTypeDidactical settingQuality…

PeopleProximity

– Geographical– Cultural– Personal

Trustworthiness– Experiences– Recommendations– …

+

Collaboration network construction

Topic / ContextB

Topic / ContextA

First degree trusted network

Second degree trusted network

Efficient network organization is the key to successTools are needed to facilitate the processOpen Issues:– Factors?– Organization?– The right

network?

Building collaboration networks

Building networks of colleagues– By topic– By trust– By proximity

Manually…or automatically…

Using collaboration networks– Social networks– International communities

Collaboration competency as the key success factor for future teaching!

Next steps

Re-Use and Educational Collaboration will not work based on simple search mechanismsOrganize networks based on trust and interestRefine friend-mechanisms in social networks (interest and trust circles)Start sharing and re-using in trusted networks, then start to broaden your communityResearch challenges– How to facilitate trust building– How to create intercultural, trusted

relationships in culturally diverse environments

– How to outreach from the initial circles?

Starting Questions

With whom have you shared / re-used / collaborated?

Would you use social network functions allowing trusted sharing?

What other relationships do you consider important?

Contact us…

Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowskijan.pawlowski@jyu.fi

GLIS on the web…

http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow

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