Lynn Sutherland

Open Education GlobalConference Report

Banff, AlbertaApril 22-24, 2015

http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

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Open Education

• What is Open Education?

• History

• Drivers

• Open Education Policy

• What are Open Education Resources?

• Creative Commons Licencing

• Where are Open Education Resources?

• References

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History

• Open Universities

• UK Open University founded in 1969 to broadcast education widely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University

• Correspondence Courses to Distance Education to Online Learning

• Athabasca University founded in 1970 in Alberta to provide distance education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_University

• MIT Open Courseware – 2002

• Khan Academy – 2006

• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – 2008

• Coursera, Edacity, edX – 2012

• Lynda.com acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5B – 2015

• Learning Management Systems, Student Portfolios, Blended Learning are becoming commonplace

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Drivers

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Drivers

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Open Education Policy

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http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/12/06/united-states-releases-its-second-open-

government-national-action-plan

What are Open Education Resources?

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Creative Commons Licensing

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See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for details

Four Building blocksSix main uses

Where are Open Education Resources?

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References & Attribution

• Some content of this presentation from: Una Daly, Kate Hess: Open Access

Week 2014 Keynote

• http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/open-access-week-college-of-du-page-keynote

• All Open Education Global 2015 “Open Education 101” preconference

workshop slides and notes available here http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/presentations/pre-conference-workshop/

• MIT Open Courseware

• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

• OpenStax College

• https://openstaxcollege.org/

• BCcampus

• http://bccampus.ca/

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