Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan

& Policy

Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey

Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

OPEN BOOK PROJECTEducational Diplomacy

2013-2014

OER Exchange Program

Promoting Open Educational ResourcesMiddle East & North

Africa

1- 21-March-2014

Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,

Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan,

Tunisia, Yemen, USA

Sponsored by: US State Department, Arab League, ALECSO

World Learning

Open Education Consortium

Creative Commons

OER Exchange Participants photo by Ismail Mekkaoui Alaoui CC BY 4.0

MENA Site Visits

Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

Paul StaceyMary Lou Forward

James Glapa-Grossklag

October 2014

United States Central Intelligence Agency. Northern Africa and the Middle East. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,

https://www.loc.gov/item/2010585096/. (Accessed February 24, 2017.)

OER Workshop

Riyadh

27-Oct-2014

Introduction & importance of OER - Mary Lou Forward

OER ecosystem - James Glapa- Grossklag

Success factors for National OER framework - Paul Stacey

National OER InitiativePresented ByDr. Abullah Al-MegrenGeneral Manager ManagerNational Center for e-Learning and Distance LearningSaudi Arabia

Vision

Establish the National level consortium for OERs, enriching teaching and learning, resulting in empowering the knowledge economy.

OER – Open Educational Resources

Mission • Propose the national level initiative for OER Consortium.• Invite institutions to form the OER Consortium. • Constitute a team for formulating strategies and policies for the management

and sustainable development of the OER consortium.• Develop high quality OERs, meeting the demands of stakeholders, and facilitate

them to produce SPOOCs and MOOCs

Proposed OER Initiative’s EcosystemSu

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User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs.

Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs.

Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications.

Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights

Communities of Practices

Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content

Development

Quality Assurance

OER RepositoryReviseReuse

RemixRedistribute

As an OER policy quick start we provided:an open policy rationale & open policy text for grant making

These provide model languageand text can be incorporated into grant programs

Embracing eLearning & OER to Transform Education in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Almegren, NCeL- MoE Saudi Arabia

NCeL RoleMulti dimensional approach in embracing e-Learning.

Our effort is in progress to utilize the set of services and digital content in strengthening our OER movement.

We are committed towards building our knowledge society

How We See the OER Movement...

Our Path to the OER Movement

Dr. Fengchun MiaoChief of the Unit for ICT in Education UNESCO

Workshops & Seminars 2011-2015

Dr. Stephen DownsNational Research Council, Canada

Dr. Mike SmithOER Advocate

Transformation of an initiative to program2016-2017

Proposed OER Initiative’s Ecosystem Now in ActionSu

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User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs.

Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs.

Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications.

Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights

Communities of Practices

Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content

Development

Quality Assurance

OER RepositoryReviseReuse

RemixRedistribute

Adapted from : http://www.hewlett.org/sites/default/files/The%20Open%20Educational%20Resources%20Ecosystem_1.pdf

As we speak...

Universities have started to share their existing e-ContentAbout 1000 OER Champions are being trained from

PE/HE/LLL across the countryOER Policy is Being DevelopedOur OER Platform is in Beta Testing

Challenges

The Road Ahead...Largest Arabic OER HUB

“To remain human and livable, knowledge societies will have to be societies of shared knowledge.”

– Koichiro Matsuura Former Director-General of UNESCO

National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy

General Points

• Next step in the process…• Collaborative project with Creative Commons.• All three documents are DRAFT. NCeL is reviewing now.• All documents will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license by

the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.– so other nations may reuse / revise / remix.

• OER Team and University OER Teams to be created.

National Open Education Strategy

• Saudi Arabia OER Strategy Key Points• Vision / Mission• Foundations, Guidelines and Principles• Open Education Goals• Scope• Implementation• Appendix A: OER Frequently Asked Questions• Appendix B: Ex. of Culture Impacting National Open Edu Strategy

National Open Education Strategy

Vision

• To enable creation, innovative use and sharing of quality Open Educational Resources that will ensure education is accessible for every citizen in the Kingdom, contribute to equitable lifelong learning opportunities, the creation of a knowledge society, and the efficient utilization of government educational funds, public services, infrastructure and resources in education.

National Open Education Strategy

Open Education Goals• Access

– Ensure all Saudi citizens, in every sector of society, have universal, accessible, free, and legal access to effective open education resources and learning opportunities.

• Quality– Saudi teachers and learners have access to, use, create and iteratively improve quality OER.

• Efficiency– Ensure all government funded education resources are openly licensed, and efficient

utilization of other government provided education resources, services and infrastructure.• Sharing

– Support collaboration and engagement of communities of educators and learners around OER to cultivate a culture of openness and sharing in education.

National Open Education Master Plan

• OER Master Plan Framework– Funding– Open Education Goals, Actions, Outcomes and Timeline– Capacity Building– Monitoring and Evaluation– Advocacy and Awareness Raising– Incentives & OER Champions

• National OER Team & University OER Teams• Appendix A: OER Policy Reports• Appendix B: OER Research• Appendix C: Resources to Teach People about Open Education• Appendix D: Definitions and Abbreviations

National Open Education Licensing Policy• Open Education Licensing Policies Explained• Saudi Arabia Copyright Law• Reason to Require Open Licenses on Government Funded Education Resources• IGO Support National-Level Adoption of Open Education Licensing Policies• Use Standard Open Licenses• Open Licensing Respects Copyright and Authors• Open Education Licensing Policies Adopted Globally• Appendix A: Open Policy Resources• Appendix B: Resources for Implementing an Open Education Licensing Policy• Appendix C: Definitions and Abbreviations• Appendix D: Playbook for Implementing Open Licensing Policies• Appendix E: DRAFT Ministry Level Open Education Licensing Policy• Appendix F: DRAFT Grant / Contract Level Open Education Licensing Policy

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Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan

& Policy

Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey

Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0