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Open Educational Resources:Open Educational Resources:Stimulating Global Knowledge SharingStimulating Global Knowledge Sharing

Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. CasserlyMarshall S. Smith and Catherine M. CasserlySeptember 27, 2005September 27, 2005

The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

2 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program

Goals for MeetingGoals for Meeting

Hewlett’s work and state of the OER Hewlett’s work and state of the OER FieldField

Input on multiple OER portalsInput on multiple OER portals Discuss disseminationDiscuss dissemination Discuss sustainabilityDiscuss sustainability Build synergyBuild synergy


Agenda for DayAgenda for Day

8.00 Introductions and General Overview 8.15 Hewlett Strategy - State of the Field 9.45 Break 10.00 Moving Beyond the Horizon 11.00 Reflections on the Strategy 11.30 OER and Google Noon Lunch 1.00 Windows to OER: Portal Creation 2.00 Challenges to Disseminating OER 2.50 Charge for the Afternoon 3.30 Hike in the Logan Hills 7.00 Hamiltons – Dinner and Discussion


Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro MatsuuraMatsuura

“ “If the world community’s special If the world community’s special concern is to overcome the digital concern is to overcome the digital divide in order to build knowledge divide in order to build knowledge societies, then this is precisely what societies, then this is precisely what UNESCO is all about. One of our core UNESCO is all about. One of our core missions is to promote the free missions is to promote the free exchange of ideas and knowledge; to exchange of ideas and knowledge; to maintain, increase and disseminate maintain, increase and disseminate knowledge through our work in knowledge through our work in education, the sciences, culture and education, the sciences, culture and communication.”communication.”


Open Educational Content Inspired By:

Belief that knowledge and education are common goods

Belief that open educational content will advance human knowledge, creativity, and social welfare

Open Source software movement


Open Educational ResourcesOpen Educational Resources

• High quality digitized materials High quality digitized materials

• Freely available on the web for use and re-Freely available on the web for use and re-useuse

• Focused on teaching, learning and Focused on teaching, learning and research research

• Tools for creating, using, re-using and Tools for creating, using, re-using and sharingsharing


Which Path?Which Path?

MIT OCW

K-12 Research

Early 2001


Theory of ChangeTheory of Change

EQUALIZE ACCESS TO

KNOWLEDGE

Remove Barriers

High-Quality

Open Content

Understand and Stimulate

Use

High-Quality

Open Content


Open Content: OpenCourseWareOpen Content: OpenCourseWare


Open Content: Full CoursesOpen Content: Full Courses


Open Content: Library CollectionsOpen Content: Library Collections


Open Content: Subject Area Open Content: Subject Area CollectionsCollections


Open Content: General CollectionsOpen Content: General Collections



EQUALIZE ACCESS TO

KNOWLEDGE


Use

High-Quality Open Content

Remove Barriers


Remove BarriersRemove Barriers

InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools

InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools

- Sakai- EtudesNG- Connexions- Internet Archive- EduTools

Intellectual Intellectual PropertyProperty

Intellectual Intellectual PropertyProperty

- Creative Commons- Stanford U Copyright Determination

Culture & Culture & LanguageLanguageCulture & Culture & LanguageLanguage

- UNESCO- Chinese Open Resources for Education- African Virtual University



EQUALIZE ACCESS TO

KNOWLEDGE

Remove Barriers

High-Quality Open Content


Use


Understand and Stimulate UseUnderstand and Stimulate Use

Virtual Virtual CommunitiesCommunities

Virtual Virtual CommunitiesCommunities

- UNESCO IIEP- Open Learning Support

Evaluation & Evaluation & ResearchResearch

Evaluation & Evaluation & ResearchResearch

- OECD OER study- Berkeley Digital Resource Study- African Virtual University Gap Analysis- ISKME Re-use Study

Stimulate Stimulate UseUse

Stimulate Stimulate UseUse - Chinese Open Resources for - Chinese Open Resources for

EducationEducation

- Development Gateway- Development Gateway- OER Exchange- OER Exchange

- Widernet


Understand & Stimulate UseUnderstand & Stimulate Use

Organized and searchableOrganized and searchable What users wantWhat users want Culturally appropriateCulturally appropriate Disseminate widelyDisseminate widely


Portal DevelopmentPortal Development


Indicators of Strength Indicators of Strength of the OER Movementof the OER Movement


OCW Movement — Emerging OCWs

Japan OCW Alliance

CORE

ParisTech

Universia

MIT, Tufts, Berkman

JHSPHUSU

Notre Dame

U Mich

FETP

DAU

UWC

AVU

• 36 institutions live OCW sites• 35 institutions early development• 11 countries and 6 languages


Wikipedia – 1.4 billion hits dailyWikipedia – 1.4 billion hits daily


Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Creative Commons Licenses - Growing AdoptionAdoption

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10,000,000

20,000,000

30,000,000

40,000,000

50,000,000

60,000,000

2002 2003 2004 2005


Growing Global Networks Growing Global Networks


Goals for 2006Goals for 2006

• Build out key collectionsBuild out key collections- OCW, full courses, content areas- OCW, full courses, content areas

• Expand use and usefulnessExpand use and usefulness- Portals, distribution sites, translations, Portals, distribution sites, translations,

partners, researchpartners, research• Continue building capacityContinue building capacity

- IP, community tools - IP, community tools • Sustainability – a dilemmaSustainability – a dilemma

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