Open Edu MovementShaomeng Zhang

What?

Social movement: globalization movement

Political movement: civil rights movement

Cultural movement: Renaissance

Economic movement: flatened world

movement?

• A movement is a motion, a change in position.

Wikipedia(2009)

Idealist

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” -Jimmy Wales(2004)

Open Edu Declaration

• Cape Town Open Education Declaration:Unlocking the promise of open educational resources

•  We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go.

• This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint. Educators, learners and others who share this belief are gathering together as part of a worldwide effort to make education both more accessible and more effective.

• The expanding global collection of open educational resources has created fertile ground for this effort. These resources include openly licensed course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software and other materials that support teaching and learning. They contribute to making education more accessible, especially where money for learning materials is scarce. They also nourish the kind of participatory culture of learning, creating, sharing and cooperation that rapidly changing knowledge societies need.

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Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)

Open Education Institutions

massive open online course (MOOC)

Open?

Free to access

Free to copy/modify/redistribute

Downes(2009)

why now?

Scarcity vs. abundance

limited resources(teacher, paper, distribution, space, tools) non-zero marginal cost VS. near-zero marginal cost

limited information processing/filtering capacity VS. learning networks, distributed learning

limited time/space to learn VS. ubiquitous learning/informal learning

conditions

Abundance of tools and reduced cost of production and distribution

Emergence of creative licenses: Creative Commons

Emergence of open culture

Tools

license

• By default everything published on the web are copyrighted

Pic: Paul Boutin(2007)

Open culture

An open system

Funding/different models of supporting OER

More surstainable resources...

issues

Usability

UI

content completeness

content-specific usability

Durability

Accessibility

language/culture

technical/economic

Effectiveness

feedback/interactivity

Downes(2009)

who cares?

Monopoly of education is breaking down

content

support services

social life

degrees

Wiley(2009)

the world is open

Content could reach wider community (the world!)

High quality courses is no longer constrained by time/space/resources

More courses would accumulate online over time, providing more choices

Free!

change is coming...

challenges

Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

In the end, It’s all personal

Empowered

Emotional

Personalized

Unconstrained

Alan Levine(2009)

resources“Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities.” http://cnx.org/

“Curriki - WebHome.” http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

“Directory of open access journals.” http://www.doaj.org/

“Internet Archive.” http://www.archive.org/index.php

“Intute - Home.” http://intute.ac.uk/

“Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses.” http://oyc.yale.edu/

“Welcome | Flat World Knowledge.” http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

“Wikiversity.” http://www.wikiversity.org/

“Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009.” http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=189

“IPT 692R (Wiley).” http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/

reference

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, 2007. Available from: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/ [Retrieved Nov. 2009]

Downes, Stephen, 2009. Open Education: Projects and Potential, Available from: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/speaking-in-lolcats-what-literacy-means-in-teh-digital-era [Retrieved Nov. 2009]

Alan Levine, 2009. Amazing Stories of Openness Available from: http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/ [Retrieved Nov. 2009]

Paul Boutin, Picture available from: http://valleywag.gawker.com/334726/creative-commons-propaganda--the-1+slide-version [Retrieved Nov. 2009]