OportUnidad 2014 Concepts, Oportunities & Networks

OportUnidad 2014Concepts, Oportunities & Networks

Carolina Rossini, VP for International Policy at Public Knowledge

Founder of the www.rea.net.br (2008)Monterrey, Mexico

June 10 and 11, 2014

Demand for Higher Education

“Nearly one-third of the world’s population (29.3%) is under 15. Today there are 158 million people enrolled in tertiary education1. Projections suggest that that participation will peak at 263 million2 in 2025.

Accommodating the additional 105 million students would require more than four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years.

1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures2 British Council and IDP Australia projections

By: COL http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocume

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Student Debt / Perceived Value

(**) Even bigger challenges in the Global South

Key challenges facing education in the Global South

Growing numbers of students in the education sector

Education institutions under financial pressure

Limited teaching and learning resources

Employability of graduates

“Social inclusion has today a new and important dimension: digital inclusion. Digital inclusion is an

attribute of citizenship: a new right in itself and a way to ensure basic rights to people, such as free expression and

access to culture and education. For Brazil, digital inclusion is a tool to ensure that citizens and institutions have the

means to access, use, produce and distribute information and knowledge through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) so that they can participate actively in

Information Society, as receivers and providers of knowledge.”

Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at UNECO OER@Paris Conference

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Content

Tools andPlatforms

Intellectual Property

“4Rs” – Freedoms

review

remixredistribute

reuse

The OER 4 freedoms

Reuse the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form

Revise the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself

Remix the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new

Redistribute the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others http://opencontent.org/definition/

Interoperability (legal and technical)

as essential conditionfor new institutions

= An issue of design

www.google.com.br/advanced_search

http://search.creativecommons.org/?lang=pt

Find, Use & Share

GNU General Public License:The use of IPs to create freedom

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“An open license is one that allows anyone to access, reuse, modify and share the OER. The

use of open technical standard for OER platforms and files improves access and reuse

potential of OERs which are developed and published digitally.”

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Um livro REA sobre REA

http://livrorea.net.br/

Políticas Públicas

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$500 million – Round 2($2 billion over four years)

A Growing Library

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OER Enhances Academic Freedom

• OER provides faculty with more choices for their courses• OER allows for permission free editing and adaptation• OER prevents faculty from being locked into a particular

platform or system

At the course level:

In the market place:• OER should not be legislated or mandated• OER needs to stand on it’s own vis a vis publisher material

CC BY: OpenStax College

X Limits access

Digital Rights Management:

Open Licenses:

Unlimited Access (never expires) Unlimited printing/use across devices Encourages sharing on informal learning networks

Digital Rights Management

CC BY: OpenStax College

Translations & Accessibility

Customization & Affordability

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

www.projectkaleidoscope.org

The Vision

100% of students have

100% free, digital access to all materials on day 1

Drive student success by designing, adopting, measuring and improving OER-based courses

www.projectkaleidoscope.org

• Open education policy: Governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make taxpayer- funded educational resources OER.

• Open content licenses: OER should be freely shared through open licenses which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing.

• Collaborative production: Educators and students can participate in creating, using, adapting and improving

OER.

Strategies for OE

5 Challenges of OER

(1) Faculty Doesn't Know what To Do with OER(2) Not Everyone Trusts Free Resources

(3) Expectations Around OER Quality are High(4) Institutional Processes Aren't Always Flexible

(5) No Effective Discovery and Assessment OER Tool

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/04/24/5-Hurdles-to-OER-Adoption.aspx?Page=2

College Leadership:

• Add OER / OA to strategic plans;

• Open Policy on discretionary grants;;

• Support faculty: time/money;

• Make this a Univ-wide conversation

• Make heroes out of open leaders;

• Track & report cost savings, KPIs;

• CC licenses on your MOOCs.

http://roer4d.org/

Research on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Development

in the Global South

• In what ways, and under what circumstances can the adoption of OER address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality and affordable education and what is its impact in the Global South?

Overview of the ROER4D projects 7 Project Clusters

ROER4DNetwork hub

OER Desktop overview

Survey of OER adoption by academics & students

Academics’ adoption of OER

Teacher educators’ adoption of OER

OER adoption in one country

OER impact studies

Baseline educational expenditure

New

ROER4D Objectives1. Build an empirical knowledge base on the use and impact of OER in education2. Develop the capacity of OER researchers3. Build a network of OER scholars4. Curate and communicate research to inform education policy and practice

Call for proposals: Impact studies

www.oer-impact.net

• Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

• CAD 50 000 each• 18 months• South-North

partnerships

if you care about the emergence of knowledge

federation systems that allow broader access to knowledge, you may have to have some kind of intervention…and not wait for organic emergence.

Inclusion/cooperationWide dissemination of education contributes to

more inclusive and cohesive societies, fosters equal opportunities and innovation in line with

the priorities of a renewed social agenda focused on the knowledge society. In this sense, this study brings a series of recommendations to

foster this dialogue.

Paul Baran (1964)

the opposite of open isn’t “closed”

the opposite of open is “broken”

“It just takes all of some of us!”

@wilbanks

Thank you!Gracias!

Obrigada!

www.rea.net.brCarolina.rossini@gmail.com