Crossing the OER chasm: From "sharing to learn" to "learning to share"
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The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and strategies for increasing adoption of OER. It suggests moving from just sharing OER to learn towards learning to share OER and becoming advocates for OER. It also addresses challenges to adoption like concerns about quality, loss of students or competitive advantage, and the need for policy reform. The document presents the benefits of OER including reduced costs for students and proposes an open source business model for sustainable OER projects.
Crossing the OER chasm: From "sharing to learn" to "learning to share"
- 1. Kia ora, Welcome! Go to Tools> Audio > Audio setup wizard to configure your audio
- 2. Crossing the OER chasm From “sharing to Learn ” to “learning to Share ” Anthony Mackintosh Wayne Mackintosh
- 3. OER Foundation The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that provides leadership, networking and support for educators and educational institutions to achieve their objectives through Open Education. “ OER is a sustainable and renewable resource” Slide 3
- 4. WikiEducator We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks . We hope you can help us. Voted best educational wiki, Steven Downes, Dec 2007 Inaugural recipient of the award for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices
- 5. Learning4Content workshops > 4 700 educators > 100 workshops > 130 Countries
- 6. A return to the core values of education WE MUST BE FREE WE MUST BE OPEN Woodleywonderworks, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1291468732/ Share, Remix, Reuse “ Legitimate plagiarism? ” Slide 2
- 7. Crossroads for OER futures Dominic Alves http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/1127762669/ Disruptive technology? Scalable? Sustainable? OPEN web OPEN content OPEN web OPEN philanthropy OER OPEN everything
- 8. ElementaryTechTeacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855946@N08/3264547221/ Innovation & new technology Ice harvesting Once the largest industry in America In 1850 – invention of “artificial” ice makers (Reusable) Digital learning resources Ice harvesting or new innovation?
- 9. Technology futures research Technologies to watch Mobile computing Open content Electronic books NMC, http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010
- 10. Demand | Supply Distribution DIGITAL NETWORKS
- 11. What students think … Open textbooks could reduce the average amount spent per year by 80% to $184 Student Public Research Interest Group (Student PIRGs) to $184 “ Major publishers need to develop new models which can create high quality textbooks without imposing excessive costs on students” http://www.studentpirgs.org/
- 12. How do you increase price?
- 13. Wikipublishing with WikiEducator Add article
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- 19. OER remix & wiki publishing Blogs LMS
- 20. Sfllaw, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/222795669/ Square institutions and round OER holes If we open our content we will loose students and competitive advantage What about the quality of OER – can we trust it? We need policy reform – (aka we are happy with a wait-and-see approach) Is the academy a master of its own destiny? FACT OR FICTION?
- 21. The cost of of free – getting started Setup cost (2001 – 2008) + $35 million Annual cost: $3.7 million (MIT OCW Website) (Lederman, 2005) Setup cost >$11 million (McAndrew, Scanlon, & Clow, 2010)
- 22. An OSS business model for OER Free OERs (No cost & Libre) Offer affordable institution-based OER projects $ value of benefits greater than cost of membership Minimize operational cost Shared infrastructure (sector / level)
- 24. Virtual distributed organisation As non-profit, reinvest surplus income for OER International networking & thought leadership forums
- 25. Open philanthropy Open source everything Share, leverage, share again Community is everything Radical transparency Use open licenses and open file formats for all outputs Open source is not just about giving ( share ), it’s also about receiving ( leverage ). Most philanthropy happens in silos. See what's under the hood - Trust. Listen, learn, evolve: constantly The Cluetrain Manifesto taught us that markets are conversations. Mark Surman, Executive Director Mozilla Foundation.
- 26. Reincarnating the idea of the (OER) university Create Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute. Community of Educators OER Community of Researchers Plan, collaborate and share research Community of Learners Wikicourses eg. Learning4Content
- 27. Crossing the OER chasm Sharing to LEARN | learning to Share OER advocates | Organisational implementation Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we should still be living in caves. Taylor, 1997 A transformational leadership dilemma ....