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Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Educational Providers Ramesh C Sharma Friday, 9th August 2013

Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Educational Providers

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Open Educational Resources are being promoted by governmental, non-governmental, inter-governmental and private business houses. There are different funding mechanisms for developing OERs. Due to restricted or limited funding provisions currently, we need to have a look at alternatives. Educational providers need to examine ways to meet the challenge of numbers, costs, quality etc. MOOCs are getting popular in extending the outreach of education.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)and

Educational Providers

Ramesh C Sharma Friday, 9th August 2013

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USAID Global Education Summit

• On August 6-8, 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted a Global Education Summit in Washington, D.C.  

• Focused  on achievement of USAID’s Education Strategy and Millennium Development Goal 2: Universal Primary Education.  

• Reviewed "state of the field" approaches and "state of the art" best practices in improving education in the developing world.

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USAID Education is working to improve the reading skills of 100 million children, improve the quality of higher education and workforce development programs, and expand access to education in crisis & conflict environments to 15 million children.

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Open Education Resources

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Education SummitAugust 6, 2013

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…potential to transform education

“At the same time, the fast-evolving field of education technology—from cloud computing to personal learning devices to Open Education Resources like the Khan Academy, which my two young children enjoy—has huge potential to transform education”

http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/education-only-solution

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…opportunities…

“Open Education Resources and other communication tools can help improve and expand teacher training and professional development—a huge opportunity in countries grappling with large teacher shortages and under-educated teachers”

http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/education-only-solution

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Educational Providers

Governmental Non-Governmental

Inter-Governmental

Business Houses

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Non - profit ICORE Association to Support and Develop Innovation in Open Access, Open Educational Practices and Resources, and more …

• Administration of an online community portal for information exchange

• Organization of scientific and educational events (e.g. conferences, summer schools, etc.), and

• Establishment of creative partnerships between ICORE members to advance open research and open education internationally

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Teachers and Teacher Educators from across sub-Saharan Africa

http://www.tessafrica.net/home

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OER University

Creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit.

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university

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OER University… Logic Model

To create a parallel learning universe based solely on OER to augment and add value to the formal education sector

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Logic_model

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Development and Operations

Connexions® is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, and the Connexions Consortium. Connexions® is a registered trademark of Rice University. 

MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge. With more than 2,000 courses available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.

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Funding…

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…Challenges

• Limited or no funding• OER initiatives to sustain independent of

foundations funding• UNESCO-COL guidelines identify several zero

sum strategies (Stacey, 2013)

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OER have come through the innovation phase, are striving for adoption, and

aspire to cross into early majority.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle) as cited by Stacey http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/oer-use-cases/ 

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OER - a disruptive innovation

Many disruptive technology innovations do not successfully cross the chasm and simply disappear (Moore, 1991)

Will this be the fate of OER?

http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/oer-use-cases/

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OER framework (Stacey 2006)

http://edtechfrontier.com/tag/oer-use-cases/

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Challenges in Education…Indian Context

• of numbers• of relevance• of Quality• of access• of costs • of speed

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MOOCs…promising technological and pedagogical model

http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2012/12/19/day-of-the-mooc-now-animated/

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The OER MOOC

http://www.wiziq.com/course/28219-the-oer-mooc