The World of Tomorrow – OER Theater – Our Responsibility and Everyone’s Opportunity!

© 2009-10 AcrossWorld Education

Education Innovation…..OER TheaterOpen Courseware Consortium Global MeetingHanoi, VietnamMay 6th, 2010

Stephan K. Thieringer, President & CEO

creativity & exploration


Open Courseware Consortium

A catalytic Movement

Access to Affordable EducationTeachers and Students


Global Overview of Need and Impact UN based

Life ExpectancyGDPGERAdult LiteracyEducation index


Find a Common Language


Our engagement opportunities


User Centric Learning, Knowledge and Teaching

“traditional” Technology

“traditional” Pedagogy

“traditional” Content

New Educational & Teaching Models

Pedagogy

TechnologyContent

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Fact

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NEW Teaching and

Learning Services

InclusionIndividualisation

PersonalDevelopment Plans

ePortfolioManagement

Skills management

Knowledge Management

KnowledgeRepositories

Media Based Personalization

Skills & Competencies

Based Personalization

New GenerationLearning Content

ProductionProcesses


User Centric Learning, Knowledge and Teaching

“traditional” Technology

“traditional” Pedagogy

“traditional” Content

New Educational & Teaching Models

Pedagogy

TechnologyH

uman

Fa

ctor

s

NEW Teaching and

Learning Services

InclusionIndividualisation

PersonalDevelopment Plans

ePortfolioManagement

Skills management

Knowledge Management

KnowledgeRepositories

Media Based Personalization

Skills & Competencies

Based Personalization

New GenerationLearning Content

ProductionProcesses

Content


CONTENT COMMUNITY

TOOLS

Improve the qualityof teaching &

student performance

four levels of innovation

business model innovation

product & service innovation

process innovation

technology innovation


Operating Margin Growth in Excess of Competitive Peers

Compound annual growth rate over five years

[Source: IBM, CEOs are expanding the innovation horizon: important implications for CIOs]


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OER Conceptional Map


“Open – ness”DEGREES OF OPENNESSThe concept of ‘degrees of openness’ openness of societies (Breen)

SOCIAL OPENNESSThe fundamental attribute of openness is the willingness to make materials available beyond theconfines of the classroom by lecturers, students and university management.

Even if the technological infrastructure exits to allow materials to be a button-click away, unlesslecturers are willing to share their materials or pedagogy, the technological affordance willremain unrealized.The participation in the MIT OCW initiative was planned as a voluntary, ‘faculty centric’ initiativeand involved faculty as early as possible on the program advisory board.

More importantly, with the emergence of Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs and virtualcommunities, the differentiation between lecturers as producers of content and students asconsumers of content has started to blur and has shifted attention from access to information only towards access to other people based on skill and competency.


How open are we ?


The license implications and new models


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US $100 Mill. + available, free Content


The Script of the Play

“There is a lot of online material being developed, but it isn’torganized in a way where it is easy to find the best material thatfits what you want to do……”

“Over time I think a large community of contributors and reviewers will develop and allow the online material to be easy to access and a crucial resource for all types of education.”

Bill Gates, February 2010


Are we ready for the Quality Challenge ?The “Adoption Clock” in Internet Time

• 9:30:00 PM : Spoken language (100K years AC)• 11:52:00 PM: Writing• 11:59:49 PM: Analog Recording & Mass Distribution (1830 roto print, since 1920

film,radio,tv) • 11:59:58 PM: Computers & digital communication• 11:59:59 PM : Internet & interactive digital communication• 00:00:00 PM : The next big thing – • Ubiquitous, Distributed & Interoperating Networks of distributed Learning Services

The Technology Adoption Clock Pool Paradox, 1983


Facing the Gutenberg Innovation Syndrome –Again and again….

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1490“Dear Gutenberg, wonderful but ….what else can we do with it apart printing the Bible?”

1895 “Dear Marconi, good thing your invention managed to transmit letters over the air……but ………what’s the use of it???”….

1980“Why should people use mobile phones if we have a phone box at every corner?!?”

1990 “Why on earth should we use emails if we can fax all on papers?**!?”

2000“Why should students use SMS messaging if they can talk to each other by phone?!!!!*?”


Let us be a lot more disruptive!!!


VALUEPROPOSITION

COSTSTRUCTURE

CUSTOMERRELATIONSHIP

TARGETCUSTOMER

DISTRIBUTIONCHANNEL

VALUECONFIGURATION

CORECAPABILITIES

PARTNERNETWORK

REVENUESTREAMS

INFRASTRUCTURE CUSTOMEROFFER

FINANCE

A business model describes the value an organization offers to various consumers and portrays the capabilities and partners required for creating, marketing, and delivering this value!

A business model overview


Universitas 21


Looking at some of the Action

OER in CancerOER in Health


American University of the Caribbean, St MaartenBen Gurion University, IsraelBMJ, UKBrown University, USAChina Medical Board, USA & ChinaFAIMER, USAHull York Medical School, UKThe Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical School, UKInternational Medical University, MalaysiaJames Cook University, AustraliaLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKIVIMEDS Catalan Group, SpainNational Board of Medical Examiners, USANational University of Singapore, SingaporeNHS Education for Scotland, UKRoyal College of Surgeons of Ireland, IrelandUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ItalyUniversity of Dublin, Trinity College, IrelandUniversity of Aberdeen, UKUniversity of Birmingham, UKUniversity of Dundee, UKUniversity of Durham, UKUniversity of Edinburgh, UKUniversity of Florida, USAUniversity of Glasgow, UKUniversity of Hong Kong, ChinaUniversity of Lisbon, PortugalUniversity of Miami, USAUniversity of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKUniversity of Nottingham, UKUniversity of Queensland, AustraliaUniversity of Science and Technology, Saudi ArabiaUniversity of Southampton, UKUniversity of St Andrews, UKWake Forest University, USAWest Virginia University, USA

A Medical Model


I-Tunes University


Yale Open Courses


OER Commons


Curriki


Common Actors

• Institutions• For profit organizations• Non profit organizations• Individuals• Governments• Global Organizations


OCW Funding

GrantsFundraisingAdditional Support by U or CollegeRev Gen InitiativesShrink Effort of OCWLooking like a business


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India as an Example – Metrics of the Enablement

22,500 plus colleges - Tier 2 and 3 colleges471 Degree Granting Universities

Change the consumer perspective$50 bill. Global Education market230 mill. students in India200 plus Universities globally engaged in Open Educational ResourcesPrivate Education trusts are predominant factor in emerging countriesBrand and Revenue is an objective


Community Focused Efforts

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UNIFIED VISION

& ACCESS

to Information

and Knowledge

Communications

Collaboration

Content Management/Search/Retrieval/Contribution


Final Thoughts…..

Education IS the

single largest socio-economic driver of personal development in any country and the way to

allow people, through their own motivation, to better theirQuality of Life.

We need to continue to enable people and nations to take control of their futures!


Questions and Answers?

Thank you!