Presentation OpenContent for OpenData meeting
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The document discusses the OpenCourseWare Consortium, which advances open sharing of free educational materials worldwide by organizing courses. It has over 260 member institutions that have published over 14,000 open courses from their OpenCourseWare sites for informal learning. The Consortium is supported by various foundations and organizations and promotes the benefits of open educational resources (OER) such as continuous improvement of materials and greater access to education.
Presentation OpenContent for OpenData meeting
- 1. advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Open Sharing, Global Benefits The OpenCourseWare Consortium www.ocwconsortium.org
- 2. Willem van Valkenburg Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare OCW.tudelft.nl Assistant to the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
- 3. • ~260 members • ~100 live OCW sites • ~14,000 courses http://www.ocwconsortium.org
- 4. “Open” Terminology Open = free/flexible/sharable Open License = sharable license (example: Creative Commons’ most open license: CC-BY) Open CourseWare (OCW) = sharable course materials Open Educational Resources (OER) = sharable learning materials (broader than OCW) Source: Tom Caswell http://www.slideshare.net/tom4cam/going-open-lessons-learned-from-the-open-course-library
- 5. Why OER? 1. Education is Sharing (the technical argument) 2. Buy One, Get One (the political argument) 3. The Paradox of Free (the financial argument, part 1) 4. The $5 Textbook (the financial argument, part 2) 5. Continuous Improvement (the quality argument) 6. Content is Infrastructure (the innovation argument) 7. Do the Right Thing (the moral argument) Source: David Wiley http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/why-oer
- 6. 1. Education is Sharing
- 7. 1. Education is Sharing • Teachers Share With Students • Students Share With Teachers • Knowledge is Magical: – Can be given without being given away • Educational Sharing also means adapting or editing – but copyright forbids this
- 8. 2. Buy One, Get One
- 9. Who Pays for Research? • Publishers make 2% of the investment, then take © and charge you for access • Public (Who Paid) Has No Access All taxpayer-funded educational resources should be OER
- 10. 3. The Paradox of Free Won’t people stop paying for the course materials or books if they’re free?
- 11. Research from David Wiley • Over 2% of people who access open online courses become paying customers • Downloads of free online books correlate strongly with sales of print books • A for-profit business can be financially successful using CC licenses on its textbooks Source: davidwiley.org
- 12. 4. The $5 Textbook
- 13. 4. The $5 Textbook • Open Textbooks: FlatWorldKnowledge.com – Pay $35 instead of $150 - $200 per book – http://opencontent.org/calculator
- 14. 5. Continuous Improvement Almost every industry (1) gathers and (2) uses data more effectively than we do
- 15. What If You Could Know • Which students need the most help? • Specifically what those students need help on? • The least effective parts of you curriculum? • Which parts of your tests are malfunctioning? Knowing what needs fixed, when you don’t have permission to fix it
- 16. Openness Gives us permission to make changes and improvements
- 17. 6. Content is Infrastructure
- 18. • To speed innovation, increase quality and decrease cost of infrastructure • Content is Critical – An important part of every educational institution’s infrastructure • Examples – Openstudy.com – University of the People: tuition-free online university – OER University – Mozilla Badges
- 19. 7. Do the Right Thing
- 20. Consider Our Responsibility What kind of ethical or moral responsibility do we have? Who are you accountable to?
- 21. advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Activities of the OpenCourseWare Consortium are generously supported by: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Sustaining Members of the OCW Consortium: The African Virtual University China Open Resources for Education Delft University of Technology Fundação Getulio Vargas Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health Korea OpenCourseWare Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Netease Information Technology Co. Open Universiteit Tecnológico de Monterrey Tufts University Universia Universidad Politécnica de Madrid University of California, Irvine University of Michigan University of the Western Cape And contributions of member organizations
- 22. advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. www.ocwconsortium.org opencourseware.eu ocw.tudelft.nl twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg e-learn.nl
- 23. advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Slides credits: David Wiley – Why OER? http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/why-oer Tom Caswell - Going Open: Lessons Learned from the Open Course Library http://www.slideshare.net/tom4cam/going-open-lessons-learned-from-the-open-course-library OCW Consortium - Overview ocw july 2011 http://www.slideshare.net/OCWConsortium/overview-ocw-july-2011 Photo credits: Share http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/ IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa Karen and Sharon http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookebocast/209420446/ cc-by-nc-sa Learn http://www.flickr.com/photos/heycoach/1197947341/ cc-by-nc-sa Discussion http://www.flickr.com/photos/djof/294059951/ cc-by-nc-sa Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa Petru http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa Opensourceways http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa Anka Mulder at OCWC Conference May 5th 2011 Photographer Willem van Valkenburg http://foto.e-learn.nl/v/ocwcglobal2011/0505-banquet/IMG_1150.jpg.html cc-by-sa