1. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Open Sharing, Global Benefits
The OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org
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
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
12. 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
CC-BY Brandon Muramatsu: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oex
13. OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content • OCW is only one type of
Open Educational
Open Resource (OER).
Educational • OERs are only one type of
Resources
Open Content.
• We have much to share
OCW
with each other.
14. 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)
15. 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
16. What is a MOOC
• Massive
• Open
• Online
• Course
Image CC-BY-NC Gordon Lockhart:
http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/
17. 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
18. Open
• Everybody can participate
• But more important, there are many ways to
participate:
– ‘open’ means being able to watch
– ‘open’ means being able to participate at your
own level
– ‘open’ means participating publicly, so other can
watch
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platform
Image CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2412755417/
19. Online
• Means that it is connective,
interactive
• You can’t put a MOOC on a DVD
• The MOOC is the process
• It is a process that is greatly aided by being
online:
– Many tasks are automated, scaffolded
– Much greater communicative capacity
– More access to data, calculations
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/education-as-platform
Image CC-BY-NC-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5552385806/
21. Mechanical MOOC
Exercises &
Content Quizzes
E-mail Lists Study Groups
22. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
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
23. What is Open Education?
• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:
24. 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
Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld
26. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
What is behind this?
27. Why OER?
Education Buy One, Paradox The $5
is Sharing Get One of Free Textbook
technical argument political argument financial argument financial argument
Facilitate the Continuous Content is Do the Right
Unexpected Improvement Infrastructure Thing
serendipity quality argument innovation argument moral argument
argument
CC BY David Wiley:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-arguments-and-examples
29. 1. Education is Sharing
• Teachers Share With Students
• Students Share With Teachers
• Knowledge is Magical:
– Can be given without being given away
• Educational Sharing also means adapting or
editing
– but copyright forbids this
32. 3. The Paradox of Free
Won’t people stop paying for the
course materials or books if they’re
free?
33. Research from David Wiley
• Over 2% of people who access open online
courses become paying customers
• Downloads of free online books correlate
strongly with sales of print books
• A for-profit business can be financially
successful using CC licenses on its textbooks
Source: davidwiley.org
40. 6. Continuous Improvement
Almost every industry (1) gathers
and (2) uses data more effectively
than we do
41. What If You Could Know
• Which students need the most help?
• Specifically what those students need help
on?
• The least effective parts of you curriculum?
• Which parts of your tests are malfunctioning?
Knowing what needs fixed, when you don’t
have permission to fix it
44. • To speed innovation, increase quality and
decrease cost of infrastructure
• Content is Critical
– An important part of every educational
institution’s infrastructure
• Examples
– Openstudy.com
– University of the People: tuition-free online university
– OER University
– Mozilla Badges
48. 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.
49. Over 260 institutions and
organizations worldwide supporting
open sharing in education
50. • ~260 members
• ~170 live OCW sites
• ~20,000 courses
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
53. Why? Philosophical
• Expanding access to education & knowledge
• Building on others’ ideas
• Creating possibilities for new educational
systems
• Maximizing educational euros
54. Why? Institutional benefits
• Showcasing existing courses and educational
quality
transparency = respect & trust
good public relations
55. Why? Institutional benefits
• Strengthen teaching and learning outcomes
– Provide examples of excellence for faculty and
students
– Professional development
– Supports student learning
– Can lead to
partnerships, collaborations, recognition
56. Why? Outreach benefits
• Bridge between secondary and higher
education
– Skill and knowledge courses available to prepare
students for higher education
– Assist disadvantaged learners and those returning
to education
– Insure good fit between student and institution
57. Why? Outreach benefits
• Workforce development
– Updating skills
– Retraining sectors that are downsizing or
becoming dated
– Pathways to short courses or certificates
US Department of Labor $2,000,000,000 TAA grant specifically to support
creation of job retraining OER
58. Why? Innovation
• Current global higher ed system can’t reach
everyone who wants an education.
• Cost and access barriers to current system.
• Systems don’t serve everyone equally well.
UNESCO's world conference on Higher Education projects that post-
secondary education will need to provide places for an additional 98
million learners over the next 15 years. Stated differently, this would
require "require more than four major universities (30,000 students)
to open every week for the next fifteen years". (Daniel 2011.)
60. Washington’s Open Course Library
• A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY)
educational materials for 81 high-enrollment
college courses
Project Goals:
– Lower textbook costs for students
– Improve course completion rates
– Provide new resources for faculty
Credit: Tom Caswell, CC BY
– Please visit: http://opencourselibrary.org
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
68. >1.5 million printed self declarations of learning from
successful completion of open courses
Through open courses they are reaching a population they don’t normally serve
>40% have no education or training beyond secondary school
Income range %
Gender %
>8.500 enrollments in formal courses
77% up to US$ 1250,00
69. >1.5 million printed self declarations of learning from
successful completion of open courses
Through open courses they are reaching a population they don’t normally serve
>40% have no education or training beyond secondary school
Income range %
Gender %
>8.500 enrollments in formal courses
77% up to US$ 1250,00
71. Characteristics of a library
• Materials repository
• Archive
• Evolving hub for knowledge
• Houses different collections
• Serves a variety of users
• Users can select what is relevant to them, modify for their use
and can contribute to the body of knowledge and materials
• Supports educational pursuits
• Community center for idea exchange
• Public good
72. Characteristics of a library
• Materials repository
• Archive
• Evolving hub for knowledge
• Houses different collections
• Serves a variety of users
• Users can select what is relevant to them, modify for their use
and can contribute to the body of knowledge and materials
• Supports educational pursuits
• Community center for idea exchange
• Public good
These also describe Open Educational Resources
73. .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/223314057/
How?
Commitment to sharing knowledge and
improving access to education
Expertise and experience to advance learning
in the digital age
74. .
How?
Infrastructure expertise:
•Copyright
•Metadata
•Indexing
•Storage
•Search and discovery
•Creating and maintaining repositories
•Sharing resources among disbursed
repositories
75. .
How?
Relationships:
•Libraries sit at the heart of universities –
have unbiased relationships with all
departments and units
•Librarians are trusted partners in
academics
•Already doing outreach with
faculty, staff, students on available
resources
76. .
How?
You already have the
skills, expertise and
commitment to lead
open education at
your university
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77. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Resources:
www.ocwconsortium.org/communities/toolkit
Reaching the Heart of the
University: Libraries and the
Future of OER
Pieter Keymeer, Molly Kleinman, Ted
Hanss (U Michigan)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78006
“Open” by Loop_oh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4493818473/sizes/m/in/ph
otostream/
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worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Open Sharing, Global Benefits
The OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org
79. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
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80. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Activities of the OpenCourseWare Consortium are generously supported by:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Sustaining Members of the OCW Consortium:
The African Virtual University
China Open Resources for Education
Delft University of Technology
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium
Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health
Korea OpenCourseWare Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Netease Information Technology Co.
Open Universiteit
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Tufts University
Universia
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
University of California, Irvine
University of Michigan
University of the Western Cape
And contributions of member organizations
81. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
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ocw.tudelft.nl
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Notes de l'éditeur
OpenCourseWare is part of Open Educational Resources, but while OER can be a single object, OpenCourseWare is a package of course materials, such as syllabi, tests, lecture notes, videos of lectures, recordings, reading lists, etc.
Institutions are the stewards of the collectionDoesn’t mean that anything can go upOCW can be used to advance particular objectives of an institution
Embed the video of http://vimeo.com/43437812
The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. 42 courses have been completed so far, providing faculty with a high-quality option that will cost students no more than $30 per course.
Some institutions that are using OCW and OERs to broaden access and offer alternatives to the current educational systems.
Another interesting activity being undertaken in Indonesia is the use of OER in formal educational program. The University of Bandun wanted to develop programs in water management. As you know, developing new courses and programs requires a significant financial and time commitment. Rather than investing in faculty developing theoretical lectures, they decided to use these lectures freely and openly offered by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and focus their development efforts on contextualizing theoretical and practical approaches in Indonesian environments and society.
Moving to the other side of the world, I would like to make a few comments on an OER activity in Brazil that speaks to the question of increasing access to higher education that was highlighted by many of the Ministers this morning.
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) is Brazil’s largest non-governmental provider of distance education, serving approximately 90,000 online students. They offer a number of their courses as open educational resources. Students can complete these courses with no registration or fees, and, if they achieve passing marks on the embedded test, they are able to print a self declaration of learning. This certificate carries no credit and does not complete any degree requirements, but nonetheless, they have had over 1.5 million of these certificates printed. There are no fees for the certificate, rather, they require these learners to fill out a survey before printing the self declaration. This has given them considerable data.
The data collected has shown that they are reaching learners that they do not reach with their for credit, paid course offerings. In particular, 40% nave no post-secondary training or education, nearly 55% of leaners are women, and the vast majority are low income learners.
In short, FGV has found that their open courses has resulted in increased access.Also of note, FGV has been able to directly attribute more than 8500 enrollments in formal courses to learners following open courses, so there has been financial benefit to the institution in addition to mission benefit.
Since librarians have the skills, expertise and commitment to lead open education, perhaps all that’s missing is support.
We hope you’ll join us – thank you – flip through the next three slides rather quickly