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Role of OCW in Open Education Era
Haruo Takemura
Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
President, Japan OpenCourseWare Consotium
Board Member, OpenCourseWare Consotium
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Outline
What is OCW Current status of JOCW Current status of OCWC OCW in relation to OER OCW and Globalization in Education
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OCW ⊂ OER OPEN ≠ FREE OPEN ≠ Reusable
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
What is OpenCourseWare?
An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.
OCW ≒ Free Textbook + α ?
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What is OpenCourseWare ?
Collection of course materials used for university courses published by individual universities.
Text book, PPT slides, Hand out, video etc.
Not always designed for on-line learning.
Not all courses of participating universities are published.
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Japan OpenCourseWare consortium
Started on May 13, 2005 as Japan OpenCourseWare Alliance.
In year 2006, JOCW officially established.
会員数
43 organizations ( 23 univs. 、 4 NPOs 、 16 companies )
Members of JOCW
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OCWC Global 2011
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Courses from JOCW
Most of them are in Japanese (2,500 out of 3,000) Because most of courses taught in Japanese Universities
are in Japanese. Is this good or bad?
Global point of view Little impact on learners who do not understand
Japanese
Local point of view Good for Japanese learners
In Japan, Life long learning or recurrent education are not popular yet. Nice show case of university education.
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OCW Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. We serve as a resource for starting and sustaining OCW projects, as a coordinating body for the movement on a global scale, and as a forum for exchange of ideas and future planning.
Over 250 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education
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OCW growth
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OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content
Open Educational Resources
OCW
• OCW is only one type of Open
Educational Resource (OER).
• OERs are only one type of Open
Content.
• We have much to share with each
other.
What is Value of OCW
• For Universities• A show case of their education• Contribution to the society
• For Students• Resource for deciding which classes to take.• Self-learning materials.
• For Faculty• Resource for Faculty Development
• For Prospective Students• Recourse for deicing which university to study.
• For Alumni
• For General public
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Discussions
OCW v.s. OER Is OCW Ready for Open Education ? QA issue of OCW Emerging O.E. markets Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher
Education? The role of IT in OCW/OER MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities
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Discussions
OCW v.s. OER OCW is designed based on University courses. OER has no such a restrictions.
OCW is usually maintained by a single contributor OER may have different strategies
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Discussions
Is OCW Ready for Open Education ?
OCW based on a face to face lecture contents lacks in teaching.
OCW based on a face to face lecture video lacks in feedback or bi-directional communication between a instructor and students.
OCW is not modular based contents. Meta Data is missing
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QA issue of OCW
Publishing courses under the name of a University self-regulate their quality.
There is no formal review process in many cases Connexions or MERLOT may have better strategies ?
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Discussions
Emerging O.E. markets
Open Education in many cases are not Free Education. Who is going to pay costs for Open Education?
Government ? Students ? Course providers ?
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Discussions
Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW
ICT serves to reduce the cost for delivering courses Cost for copying Cost for delivering Cost for producing
How about cost for teaching, testing and communicating?
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Discussions
Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher Education?
Have Open Source Software speeded up advancement in Software Development ? -- Yes or Maybe
This may not true for OCW/OER, because Revising curse contents is much more complicated than
programming. Programming has less cultural issues than education. Programming is much more self-descriptive than course
contents.
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Discussions
The role of IT in OCW/OER Course publication
LMS, CMS integration. Use of cloud base services
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Discussions
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities
Are MOOCs Open Education? Yes, they are open to public but not always free.
Why many top level universities are interested in MOOCs Large test bed for pedagogical study. Good way to find out potential students.
Conclusion
OCW contents needs to be redesigned so that the
contents can be reused in various forms. Use of IT from the design of a course may improve the
situation. Module based course design can be achieved with help of good authoring software.
Lecture capture with automated caption and translation may help a lot to reduce production costs of OCW.
Pedagogical approach is essential for success. Technology oriented strategy may stall at some point.
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