oer in canada

OER in Canada

Rory McGreal

UNESCO/COL/ICDE

Chair in OER

March 2016

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Alberta Diary

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eMundus EuroProject

MENON Network BE

U of Leicester UK

U. La RiojaES

Fundação de Apoio a Universidade de São Paulo - BR

U Autonoma Metropolitana MX

Open Educational Resources - OER Foundation NZ

Athabasca U - CA

Universitas Siswa Bangsa IN

Moscow U Economics, Statistics & Informatics- RU

Bits is BitsBits is Bits

Voice Voice

Data

Images

$150 000

$1.50

M-Learning

移动学习

Mobile Ubiquity

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+3 billion Internet connexions

World population: 7.3 billion

40% of the world’s population

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Most access Internet with Mobile devices+2.3 billion have mobile broadband55% in developing countries

2/3 on Internet from

Developing countries

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Mobile learning

4.5 billion mobile subscriptions

1.5 billion mobile internet users

1/3 only access internet via mobile

90% of world population is covered by cellular

More time spent on Internet

with Mobile

than with desktops

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The first cellphone with integrated camera

IT Evolution

Cristóbal.Cobo

OPENNESS

Digital convergence:

TV

Email

Electronic book

Computer

Telephone

Radio

WWW

Fax

Clock

Camera

Handy 21 Oxygen project MIT

PDA

Nokia

5510

Game playerPervasive computing

Design for Mobile FIRST

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Let’s get real!• World economy is online

• World economy is global

• World is mobile

ThereforeStudents should be

online, global & mobile

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Distance Education

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Pope Pius XII confirmed that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution. (1950)

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Creationist view of education

Library of Alexandria

Hero

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Patron Saint of Distance Education

St. Paul

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Medieval University

TraditionalUniversity Quality Control?

Put a PhD in a classroom 把教授在课堂上

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Eucational Amish!

Tom Russel’s

“NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE’” PHENOMENON

• + 500 studies• regardless of the technology or media

http://nosignificantdifference.org

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Distance Education

Hampton,G., 1991

2025 + 98 million new students

4 universities per week (30k students)

British Council & IDP Australia

The Challenge for the 21st Century

如何教育这些学生？

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OER

40*What? Why? Where? Wow?

Twitch

= 2 jiffies or 200 milliseconds

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Some rights reserved

Attribution

ShareAlikeNon-commercial

No derivatives

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Why OER?

• DRM (digital rights management)• Digital licenses

DRM (Digital Rights Management)

You CANNOT• Copy & paste, annotate, highlight• Text to speech• Format change• Move material • Print out• Move geographically• Use after expiry date• Resell

• DRM restricts our freedom

• Can we not own & control our own property?

But our device is our

PROPERTY

Nielsen.com

Swiss-copyright.ca

Digital Licenses• Copy & paste, annotate, highlight• Text to speech or hyperlink• Format change• Move material to another computer• Print out• Move geographically• Use after expiry date• Resell

• Prohibited to show your content to others • Must accept that you have NO rights

• Owners have NO liability even if product doesn’t work• Owners can “invade” your computer without permission• Collect & use personal data• User has a “privilege” to use the product not own it

Openness is the

skeleton key that unlocks every attempt at vendor control and lock in

D. Wiley

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How to participate?

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OER ChairsNetwork

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Fred MulderNetherlands

UNESCO Chairholdersin OER Partners

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Wayne MackintoshNew Zealand

Tel AmielBrazil

Maria S. RamirezMexico

Mitja JermolSlovenia

Martin WellerUK

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PhD in the study of OER

Global OER Graduate Network

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https://oerknowledgecloud.com/

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Creating using & sharing OERCol.org

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• Massive

• Open

• Online

• Course

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Stephen Downes, George SiemensThe First Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_2008

G. Siemens

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Statement of Accomplishment

“ . . . You may not use as part of any tuition-

based or for-credit certification or program . .“

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• Learners who access OER and acquire knowledge/skills cannot have their learning assessed and accredited

• OER Pathways

• +30 institutions/orgs on 5 continents

Traditional modelTraditional model OERu model

learners

Friesen & Murray

learners

65

“Every day, computers are making

people easier to use”

< innovation always produces hostility among those who prosper in old paradigms>

Cristóbal.Cobo

你知道一切都在变化

If you're not confused,

you don't understand

The restriction of the commons by patents, copyright, and databases [right] is not in the interests of society and unduly hampers scientific endeavour.

Papal Encyclical

“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

Papal Encyclical

“On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict XVI

rory@athabascau.ca