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Universities working together to advance education andempower people worldwide through opencourseware.

August 25, 2006

Open Sharing, Global Benefits

August 25, 2006 Steve Carson



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I. The Consortium

II. Benefits of Participation

III. Outcomes



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The Consortium



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• A global consortium, including (among others):– China– France– India– Japan– Spain– Taiwan– Thailand– United Kingdom– United States– Venezuela– Vietnam

The Consortium – Participation



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AustriaUniversity of Klagenfurt

ChinaChina Open Resources for Education• Beijing Jiao Tong University• Beijing Normal University• Central Radio and TV University• Central South University• Dalian University of Technology• Peking University• Sichuan University• Tsinghua University• Xi’an Jiao Tong Universit• Zhejiang University• Plus 150 others

FranceParisTech OCW• Agronomie• Arts et Métiers• Chimie Paris• Eaux et Forets• Ecole des Mines de Paris• Ecole Polytechnique• Physique-Chimie France• Ponts et Chausse• Statistiques et Economie• Techniques Avance• Telecom Paris

HungaryEotvos Lorand University

JapanJapan OCW Consortium• Hokkaido University• Keio University• Kyoto University• Kyushu University• Nagoya University• Osaka University• Tokyo Institute of Technology• University of Tokyo• Waseda UniversityUnited Nations University

NetherlandsOpen Universiteit Nederland

Spain and PortugalUniversia OCW• Universidad Alicante• Universidad Aveiro• Universidad Barcelona• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid• Universidad Islas Baleares• Universidad Jaume I• Universidad Murcia• Universidad Oviedo• Univ. Politécnica de Madrid• Univ. Politécnica de Valencia• Universidad Rovira i Virgili• Univ. Santiago de Compostela• Universidad Sevilla

South AfricaUniversity of the Western Cape

PeruUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

United KingdomFahamuOpen University

United StatesDefense Acquisition University Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet

and SocietyJohns Hopkins School of Public HealthMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyMichigan State UniversityTufts UniversityUniversity of Michigan School of InformationUniversity of Notre DameUtah State UniversityUtah Valley State CollegeWeber State UniversityWheelock College

VenezuelaUniversidad Central de Venezuela

VietnamFulbright Economics Teaching ProgramVietnam OpenCourseware

AffiliatesOpensource Opencourseware Prototype SystemUniversia Spanish & Portuguese TranslationsWiderNet Project eGranary Digital LibraryAfrican Virtual University

The Consortium – Members



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• Mission: To advance education and empower people worldwide through OpenCourseWare

• Members and affiliates in:

– Africa

– Asia

– Europe

– North America

– South America

The Consortium – Mission



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• Ensure long-term sustainability of OpenCourseWare projects

• Extend the reach and impact of OpenCourseWare

• Foster the development of additional OpenCourseWare projects

The Consortium – Goals



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• Define sustainability and develop research agenda

• Share best practices

• Embed open sharing in academic practice

• Develop OCWC portal

• Develop myOCW site

• Coordinate alternate distribution channels

• Support new members

• Form regional recruitment working groups

• Formalize and promote OCWC conferences

Sustainability Reach & Impact More OCWs



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• To participate in OCW Consortium activities, institutions:

– Commit to publish, under the institution or organization’s name, materials consistent with definition of “OpenCourseWare”

– Pledge to work with the other members to develop standards to promote consistency in quality and presentation across OCW projects

• For more information on participation requirements, contact Stephen Carson, at 1-617-253-1250 or [email protected]

The Consortium – Participation requirements



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Benefits of Participation



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• Listing on Consortium portal at http://ocwconsortium.org

Participation Benefits – Visibility



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• Access to a community of shared practice– Online collaborations– Biannual Consortium meetings

• September 2006 in Utah, U.S.A.– USU/COSL hosting– September 26-29, 2006

• April/May 2007 in Spain (tentative)– Universia hosting– April/May 2007

Participation Benefits – Community



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• Collaboration wiki

• eduCommons publishing tool

• “How To” sites

Participation Benefits – Resources



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University of Notre Dame OCW

• Creating an OCW site:

– Implemented in a matter of months

– Uses the open source eduCommons tool

• “EduCommons has the great advantage of having been designed for an OCW project from the ground up,which means that the system is aligned with the same principles of open sharing that motivate OCW.”

— Dr. Terri Bays, Project Director for Notre Dame OCW

Participation Benefits – Technology



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Outcomes



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Outcomes – Courses available from all OCWs

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Outcomes – Visits to all OCW projects

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Other OCWs

MIT Mirrors

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Adam Adamu

• Medical student in Scotland

• Uses JHSPH OCW materials to:

– Study topics not taught at hisschool, such as psychiatric epidemiology

– Prepare for upcoming classes in his program

• “These days the world is a global village and I think that Johns Hopkins is doing a great service to humanity.”

Outcomes – Student case study



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Outcomes – Educator case study

Dr. Hemalatha Thiagarajan

• Professor of Mathematics and ComputerScience at the National Institute ofTechnology at Tiruchirappalli in India

• Uses MIT OCW materials as:

– A resource for complex illustrations to use in her lectures

– A reference for students interested in advanced topics

• “I need to show a lot of data structures, and I had to draw all of them. Here, with the click of a button, I can show something very neatly and beautifully done.”



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Dr. Brett Shelton

• Faculty Member at Utah State University

• Published materials on USU OCW to:

– Make resources as widely available aspossible

– Archive his materials in a permanentlocation

• “The idea of OCW is exciting: people are using these resources I provide in ways I have not imagined. The more my materials are used and circulated, the more I make a difference as an educator and researcher.”

Outcomes – Educator case study



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MIT OpenCourseWare

• OCW site widely used by MIT community:

– 71% of MIT students, 59% of facultyfaculty, 41% of alumni use MIT OCW

– 35% of freshmen aware of the site beforeapplying say it influenced their choice of school

• “OCW was one of the main reasons why I decided to come [to MIT]… I knew the contents of the courses, got to look at the materials, and I had a good understanding of what I was going to get… That's the reason why I ended [up] here, and not in Stanford or Columbia.” — MIT student

Outcomes – Institutional case study



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Thank You!Visit The OpenCourseWare Consortium portal athttp://www.ocwconsortium.org

Contact the Consortium at:[email protected]



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• Continues to be tremendous excitement about the OpenCourseWare concept

• The vision of OpenCourseWare is achievable

• The impact of OpenCourseWare on global education will be significant

Outcomes – What does it mean?



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A Global Movement



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• U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Spring 2006

• May 2005 U.S. Congressional testimony

• Keynotes – Scott McNealy, John Seely Brown, and Jim Duderstadt, and Hans van Ginkel (Rector of United Nations University)

• Multiple international awards

• “OpenCourseWare” appears as question on Jeopardy! in January 2003

The Movement – Spread of the “OCW” concept



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The Movement – Global media coverage



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The Movement – Journal articles



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Utah State University

• Other OCWs are beginning to appear – both in the United States, and abroad – 52 in all around the world

Kyoto University of Japan

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg

School of Public Health

The Movement – Other OpenCourseWares



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The Movement – Example OCW site



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OpenCourseWare Defined



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A free and open digital publication of high-quality educational materials, organized as courses.

OCW Defined – What is an OpenCourseWare?



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• Is IP-cleared (nothing knowingly infringes the copyrights of others)

• Permits use, reuse, adaptation (derivative works), translation, and redistribution

• Offers the materials free of charge (often for non-commercial use only)

• Is universally accessible via the Web

OCW Defined – What is an OpenCourseWare?



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• Materials used for a course at the institution

• Typically classroom-based materials, including at least some elements of the following:

– Planning materials: Syllabus and calendar

– Subject matter: Lecture notes, reading lists

– Learning activities: Homework, exams, labs

• Often enhanced with multimedia elements such as video/audio lectures and simulations

OCW Defined – What is a “course”?

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