UNESCO/COLChair in Open Education Resources

OCWCMay 2011Cambridge MARory McGreal

Sponsors

CommunityAdjustmentFund

Partners

Rory McGreal Fred Mulder

UNESCO Chairholders in OER Partners

OER in Africa

Gender Equality

Youth

Networking

Capacity Building

Research

Rural & remote communities

Mobile Learning

The world is going mobile

OERs for Development Goal of developing together a universal

educational resource available for the whole of humanity… hope that this open resource for the future mobilizes the whole of the worldwide community of educators”

UNESCO 2002

Susan D’Antoni

OER Mapping

“… technology-enabled, open provisionof educational resources for consultation,use and adaptation by a communityof users for non-commercial purposes.

Open Educational Resources

QUALITY:• content• potential effectiveness • ease of use

OER Quality measures• brand or reputation• peer review• user ratings• use indicators• validation,• self-evaluation

OER Quality measures• Sharability• Timeliness• Reach (number of users), • Usability (license restrictions), • Accessibility.

OER Quality: Cost sharing

• Cost sharing

OER Quality: Timely Updating

OER Quality: Accessibility

OER Quality: Type of Licence

GNU

OER Quality: Number of Learners

20 or 2 million?

Quality: What to measure?

• Materials?• Context?• Outcomes?• Competencies?

• http://cnx.org/content/m15211/latest/

UNESCO OER Community

• OER Wiki• OER Discussion

group• International

Assessment &

Accreditation

Wayne Macintosh

OER University Concept

Jim Taylor

Jim Taylor

Open Curriculum

Students choose what is of interest to them and what meets their professional development needs from the “smorgasbord” of available open courses

designed and based solely on OER

Jim Taylor

• To guarantee the credibility of open scholarship for academic credit, the assessment process must be strictly equivalent to that for mainstream students

• “Open” Assessment must therefore involve payment of a fee (cost recovery only) or a scholarship scheme

“Open” Assessment Services“Open” Assessment Services

Jim Taylor

• Participating institutions willing to grant academic credit for open scholarship must have credible local accreditation

• The overall quality of the “OER University Network” could be enhanced by the endorsement of the

International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education

(INQAAHE)

Open Credential Services Open Credential Services

Jim Taylor

Open Student Support

Internet domain names have been registered for

Academic Volunteers International

Jim Taylor

Source: Adapted from Seufert/Euler, 2003 by Jim Taylor

Flexible and efficient structures and processes Stability, adequate

functionality

EconomicsReadiness forchange and innovation

Open PedagogyEffective

Learning Environments

The OER University:Sustainable Innovation Strategy

Efficient utilisationof resources

Technology

Culture

Organisation

Funding Models (from Downes, 2007)

• Endowment • Membership • Donation • Producer

• Sponsorship • Govt. funding • Institutional

Statute of Queen Anne 1710

An Act for the Encouragement of Learning

USA: Copyright Act 1790An Act to Promote the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts

OER texts from Athabasca University Press

www.aupress.ca

Mohamed Ally Ed.

Terry Anderson Ed.

Dietmar Kennepohl & Lawton Shaw

Why the Public Domain?

• facilitates reuse & repurposing

• Attribution is ethical in any case

• For-profit is not always evil