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A view from Canada on
open educational resources
(OER)
David Porter, Executive Director
BCcampus, British Columbia,
CANADA
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British Columbia - Canada
25 autonomous public post-secondary institutions
High-speed networks connect all BC regions, cities and communities
Online learning is considered a requirement for providing access, choice, flexibility and mobility for BC citizens
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BCcampus mission
“BCcampus is a collaborative online learning
initiative...”
BCcampus is a publicly-funded organization that uses information technology to connect the expertise, programs and resources of all British Columbia post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework.
Berdea [CC-BY-SA-3.0]
via Wikimedia Commons
New drivers of strategy
require us to consider
new patterns for digital
content use
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Jobs, programs and courses...
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Open Curricula Development
$9.5M CA in grants
144 grants awarded
100% participation
83% partnerships
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Online Program Development Fund 2003 – 2011
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Open Curricula Development
Development across all academic domains
BCcampus OPDF contributed in whole or in part to 47 credentials
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http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca
Open Science Instrumentation
02 There are multiple entry
points for “open”
thinking and open
practices
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Open access - research
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Open access publishing
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Athabasca University has been a leader in Canada in modeling open access publishing of scholarly journals both online and in print
The International Review of Research in Open and
Distance Learning
Communities of practice
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Open pedagogies and
open teaching practices
Open textbook
development consortia
03 Some important
principles, policy
directions and practices
remain as targets
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We are recommending to governments and
colleagues across Canada that they:
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Principles, policies and practices
• Adopt the principle that curriculum resources paid for with public funds should be open and reusable
• Use Creative Commons licenses as the basis for licensing open content
04 Innovative ideas and
practices are also
blossoming over the
horizon
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Washington State in the USA
has recently passed
legislation supporting open
resource use in its K-12
schools
Its Open Course Library is
building 81 open resources
to support high-enrollment
courses and reduce student
costs
These practices serve as
exemplary models for us all
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Close neighbors provide new models
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OER university
On a global stage,
OERu is seeking to
make post-secondary
education more
accessible and more
affordable
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OERu – a global opportunity
The OER university is building a sustainable OER network among
accredited educational institutions to provide access to the formal
system with pathways to academic credit.
Athabasca University Thompson Rivers University BCcampus (non-teaching)
Empire State College (SUNY)
Southern New Hampshire University
BAOU Gujarat's open university
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology NorthTec
Open Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic
University of Canterbury
University of South Africa
University of Southern Queensland University of Wollongong
Commonwealth of Learning
UNESCO, Pacific States
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05 The need to socialize
open practices and
actively build
partnerships continues
to grow
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David Porter
Executive Director
BCcampus.ca
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Principles and policies
