Presentation of Willem van Valkenburg about Introduction to OpenCourseWare at the Barcelona Workshop on 20th of September.

1. OpenCourseWare in the European HE context
Introduction to
OpenCourseWare
20 September 2012
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2. Willem van Valkenburg
Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare
OCW.tudelft.nl
Assistant to the President of the
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Projectleader EU-project
OCW in the European HE context
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3. Agenda
• Introduction
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Why should we do this?
• OpenCourseWare in Europe
• Questions
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4. What is “Open”?
• Free • Quality assurance
• Shared • Varied availability by
• Choices disciplines
• Ability to adapt • Available to anybody
• Cost effective • Digital
• Ability to tailor & build • Often multimedia
your own • Accessibility—more
• Creative Commons accessible to some and
• Freedom of info and use less to others
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5. OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content
• OCW is only one type of Open
Educational Resource (OER).
Open
Educational • OERs are only one type of
Resources Open Content.
• We have much to share with
OCW each other.
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6. What are Open Educational Resources?
• Shared educational materials
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification
• Available to anyone via the internet (and often
other means)
David Wiley 4R’s:
Reuse – copy verbatim
Redistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and edit
Remix – combine with others
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7. What is OpenCourseWare?
• High quality educational materials organized
as courses
A course is package of educational materials starting a
particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead
to greater understanding of the issue or topic
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification, available to all on the internet
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8. What is a MOOC?
• Massive
• Open
• Online
• Course
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9. Massive
• Stanford University – Artificial Intelligence
course
– 160,000 students
• MIT – Circuits and Electronics course
– 120,000 students
• Indiana – Instructional Ideas and Technology
Tools for Online Success
– 4,000 students
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10. Kind of MOOCs
Unknown copyright. From: http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/
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11. Mechanical MOOC
Exercises &
Content Quizzes
More information:
E-mail Lists Study Groups mechanicalmooc.org
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12. What are OpenCourseWare projects?
• Institutions that have committed to sharing some of their
educational materials with the world
• Can be text only – reproduction of materials used for
classroom lectures
• Can include video, recordings, materials developed
especially for internet learning
• Can be translations of courses already on OCW sites
• Can be remixes of materials from various courses and
local contexts
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13. What is Open Education?
• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:
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14. Comparing
OPEN
TRADITIONAL COURSE OPEN EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATION
WARE
ACCESS Tuition fee Open Open Tuition fee
STUDENT Yes, mostly No Yes, online learning Yes, online learning
INTERACTION offline platform & social platform & social
media media
INTERACTION Yes No Yes, online learning Yes, online learning
platform & social platform & social
WITH media media
LECTURERS
EXAMS Yes Yes, but Yes, online Yes, online and on
self testing campus
CERTIFICATES Yes, No Yes, non accredited Yes, accredited
accredited
DIPLOMA Yes, No No Yes, accredited
accredited
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Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld

15. Why Open Education Matters
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16. Why OER?
• Do we really have an alternative?
– Sir John Daniels, former President of the
Commonwealth of Learning 2012:
– “First, UNESCO’s 2009 World Conference on Higher Education identified
rapidly increasing demand as the major trend because nearly one-third of the
world’s population (29.3%) is under the age of 15.
– Today there are 165 million people enrolled in tertiary education.
Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million in
2025. Accommodating the additional 98 million students would
require more than four major campus universities (30,000 students)
to open every week for the next fifteen years. This suggests that
alternative models of provision will be needed.”
Source: http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2012presentations/Pages/2012-04-12.aspx
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17. Why Be Open?
Education Buy One, Paradox The $5
is Sharing Get One of Free Textbook
Facilitate the Continuous Content is Do the Right
Unexpected Improvement Infrastructure Thing
Based on David Wiley’s presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-arguments-and-examples
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18. Why be Open? (2)
• Technical argument
– Education = sharing
– Copy and distributing is free online
• Political argument
– Publicly funded materials should be publicly available
• Quality argument
– Permission to make changes and improvements
• Innovation argument
– Increase quality and decrease cost of content infrastructure
– Accelerates innovation in education
From David Wiley: Why be Open http://slideshare.net/opencontent/
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19. Why be Open? Global Benefits
Washington’s
Open Course Library
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
A collection of openly Watermanagement a worldwide community of
licensed (CC-BY) TU Delft content is used at hundreds of institutions
educational materials for ITB Bandung to educate committed to advancing
81 high-enrollment college students about water OpenCourseWare and its
courses impact on global education.
>20k courses published
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20. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Our mission
to advance formal and informal learning
through the worldwide sharing and use of
free, open, high-quality education materials
organized as courses.
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21. Over 260 institutions and organizations
worldwide supporting open sharing in
education
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22. • ~260 members
• ~170 live OCW sites
• ~20,000 courses
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23. # of courses
25000
21,056
20000
18,135
16,574
15,885 16,123
15000
10,550
10000
7,591
6,023
5000
4,634
3,845
3,188
1,747
995 1,306
511 550 760
0
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24. Trends and developments (1)
• Transition from OER → Open Education
– OER, Open Teaching and open learning services
– Most recent: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
• Paris Declaration on OER (2012)
– Recommendation to States to support to its fullest capacity
awareness, creation and use of OER
– Accepted on UNESCO World Congress on OER, Paris, 22 June 2012
• Existence of infrastructural components to contribute to
an ecosystem of open education. E.g.:
– Open communities (OpenStudy)
– P2P university
– Saylor.org
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25. Trends and developments (2)
• European Union started a public consultation
– Opening Up Education – a proposal for a European
Initiative to enhance education and skills
development through new technologies
– Important role for OER
– More information:
http://opencourseware.eu/blog/2012/08/22/consultation-
on-opening-up-education
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26. OpenCourseWare in Europe
• Situation in Europe:
• Many different countries
• Already have the brick-and-mortar universities
• We educate students for more than 2000 years
• Very conservative in regards to education
• Universities face budget cuts due to the eurocrisis
• Consequences:
• Europe is lacking behind
• Eurocrisis gives opportunity to change
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28. OpenCourseWare in Europe
How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility
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29. Objectives
• facilitate virtual mobility
– Create of preconditions for a strong European
OCW-framework
– closer cooperation between European institutes
– mutual use of material and even joint degrees
– enhance quality and increase the usage of online
courses
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30. Partners
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31. Phases
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
Research Workshops Final OCWC
Reports Europe
• Pedagogic and • Workshops for • Final • Foundation for a
cultural issues dissimination and results, based European branch
• Models for input of experts upon research and of the OCWC has
sustainable the outcomes of been initiated
cooperation the workshops. towards the end of
between HEI on • Results: 2013.
OCW publications end
• Educational 2013 through
innovation with different channels
OCW cited by major
• Comparing and organizations
assessing national active in the field
policies and the of OER.
role of
governments
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32. Research deliverables
• Analyses of existing research and best
practices
• Models for sustainable cooperation between
HEI on OCW
• Student Mobility Handbook
• Comparing and assessing national policies
and the role governments
– Combined with other initiatives
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33. Workshops
• 19-20 September in Barcelona:
– Workshop on Legal Aspects and Open Content
Licensing
• 28 November at Online Educa Berlin
– Guidelines for the use of OpenCourseWare for
virtual mobility
• June 2013 in Madrid
– Workshop for Directors of Education
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34. Call for Partners
Academic Network for STEM Courses
• STEM = Science Technology
Engineering & Math
• 25 partners from 25 countries in Europe
• Deadline January 2013
• Grant to maximum of k€ 600
• TU Delft will coordinate
• More information:
http://opencourseware.eu/STEM
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35. Credits
Partners
• Delft University of Technology
• Universidad Politécnica Madrid
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Creative Commons
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