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The Many Good Reasons for Open Educational
Resources: Why Universities should
adopt Open Policies
Frederik Truyen, OER-HE stakeholder workshop, March 2011
Open Education
• ...is the simple and powerful idea that the
world’s knowledge is a public good and that
technology in general and the Worldwide Web in
particular provide an extraordinary opportunity
for everyone to share, use, and reuse
knowledge."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OCW
• "The Open Courseware concept is based on the
philosophical view of knowledge as a collective
social product and so it is also desirable to make
it a social property."
V. S. Prasad, Vice-Chancellor - Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar Open University, India
OER Initiatives1. open courseware and content;
2. open software tools (e.g. learning management
systems);
3. open material for e-learning capacity building of
faculty staff;
4. repositories of learning objects; and
5. free educational courses.Hylén, J. (2005). Open educational resources: Opportunities and challenges.
OECD-CERI. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/49/35733548.doc
see also: Downes, Stephen (2007). "Models for Sustainable Open Educational
Resources" in: Interdisciplinary Journal of Knwoledge and Learning Objects, Vol.
3, p. 29-44.
OER definition• "OER are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use or
re-purposing by others. Open educational
resources include full courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access
to knowledge."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
OER definition OECD
• "digitised materials offered freely and openly
for educators, students, and self-learners to use
and reuse for teaching, learning, and research.
OER includes learning content, software tools to
develop, use, and distribute content, and
implementation resources such as open
licences."
OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and UNESCO
Criticism
• Beware of paternalistic agenda
• Contents need to be interculturally adjusted
• Economic model unclear
• Static vision on knowledge and learning contents !
Knowledge economy
• Learning economy• Bengt-Åke Lundvall
• Creative economy• Charles Landry, John Howkins, Richard Florida
• Open knowledge economy• Yochai Benkler
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.
Reframing Resources• Open Educational Resources
go beyond Learning materials and involve the stakeholder communities and key actors involved in the relevant knowledge domains
• The ultimate Open Educational Resource
is part of the social network that warrants the supply chain, validates the knowledge claims, and makes it sustainable and fosters its growth
Course
• a summary of a field• structure and an outline• references and links• teaching & learning activities• intensity, depth• assessment• authority
as a defining feature
for the structure and purpose of OER, in providing:
OER
Teaching Communit
y
Industry
Local Stakeholders
andactors
ScientificCommunity
Journals
Organisations
ConferencesExercises
Blogs & wiki's
Course notes
Books
ExpertsProducts
Exploitation
Archives
Libraries
Professionals
Users
StakeholdersPublishers
Assessment
Good reasons for OER
• Widening Participation & LifeLong Learning
• Internationalization
• Profiling & Mainstreaming
• Reaching out to stakeholders
• Quality control / Cost control
• Learning in the Digital Age
• Interdisciplinary research
Widening Participation
• LifeLong Learning
• Accessibility
• Reaching out to professional communities
Internationalization
• Enhanced visibility and findability
• Possibility to engage students at a distance
• International collaboration and sharing of workload
Stakeholder communities
• Regional expertise networks and knowledge anchor points
• Fostering participation
Cost control
• Re-use economics
• Filling the gaps
• Reducing authoring cost
Learning in the Digital Age
• Personal Learning Environment
• Flexible learning
• Remediation of knowledge gaps
• Community translations
Interdisciplinary Research
• Increased exposure of insights to other domains
• Sharing of concepts and methods
• Tracking trends
The role of the university
• A Regional duty with an international scope
• Relevant, well-structured reference materials for the broader community
• Embedded in an international framework
Partners OER-HE
