1. Towards National Strategiesfor OER? The Dutch landscape Fred de Vries & Fred Mulder EADL conference Keep the Wheels turning 26 May 2011, Vienna, Austria

2. UNESCO OER Chair at OUNL Overall Development Goal … ... to underpin and give guidance to the exploration, introduction, implementation and exploitation of OER, ... in the full spectrum of education (from primary to higher education; from formal to informal learning), ... in a variety of societies (developed, emerging, and developing economies; with the cultural diversity manifest around the globe), ... at the national (or regional) level

3. UNESCO OER Chair at OUNL Focus on Research and Explorative Studies in OER strategies, implementation and impact Network of 11 OU’s: China/Shanghai, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ecuador, Canada/Athabasca, UK, Spain/Barcelona, Portugal Network with international organizations: OCW Consortium, COL, EADTU, ACDE, AAOU, ICDE, UNESCO

4. “As institutions and as individuals, we seem to have forgotten the core values of education: sharing, giving, and generosity.” David Wiley (2010) ‘The Open Future: Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation’ EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 14-20

5. Institutional and NationalStrategies Manypromisinginstitutional OER initiativesaround the globe Few adequate national OER strategies Problematic OER propositionfor Open Universities OER SustainabilityStruggle

6. OER sustainabilitystruggle Two ways forward: 1 National OER strategies are conditional for mainstreaming OER in the institutions For OUs a ‘minor’ rethinking of the course model is required to get them in a better position

7. The fundamental OU model:6-fold classical Openness Open Access Freedom of Time Freedom of Pace Freedom of Place Open Programming Open to People (LLL) Opennessnot as a doctrine but as a carrying concept

8. OU Brand Lifelong Open and Flexible (LOF) learning (since EADTU Conference 2004), instead of: Open and Distance Learning (ODL) --------------- Supported Open Learning Tutored Self-Study --------------- Carried by high-quality learning materials developed for independent learning integrated with didactics and tutoring elements

9. OUstypically have a 4-fold DigitalOpenness Family regarding free online availability: Open Source (software) Open Access (scientific output) Open Content (creative output) Open Educational Resources (OER) (learning materials)

10. Introducing a 5thDigitalOpenness Open Learning Services (OLS), free or fora fee, andincluding a variety of online andvirtual facilitiesfor: tutoring, advice, meetings, communities, teamwork, presentations, testing, examination, consulting sources, internet navigation, etcetera --------------------------------------------------------- OER + OLS = Open Education

11. All-inclusive course model Example: OpenERAward Opencourseware Excellence 2011

12. Split-component course model

13. Sustainability Message #1 … Taking a down-to-earth view on OUs educational model as comparedto the model of the conventionaluniversities bringsOER sustainabilitymuchbetter withinreachfor the OUs … … indeed they are put in a more equalpositioniftheyundertakea non-fundamentalandfeasible change of the course model from‘all-inclusive’to‘split-component’

14. Emerging National Strategies 2007–..... / India (total budget???) NKC / Report to the Nation 2007:Embracing OER Launch of a ‘National E-content and Curriculum Initiative’ Major effort with a large variety of follow-up activities and projects 2009–2013 / The Netherlands (€ 8,0 million) National Wikiwijs Program (OUNL & Kennisnet leading) Mainstreaming OER in all educational sectors 2011–2014 / USA ($ 2,0 billion) US Dept. of Labor and Dept. of Education will run a 4-year program to create OER for community colleges and career training. CC BY licence required for grant outputs

15. Knowledge is a public good! ICDE OER Task Force (2008), conclusion nr. 6in Report: ‘A Golden Combi?! – OER and Open, Flexible and Distance Learning’ Cape Town Declaration (2007) “Governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make open education a high priority. Ideally, taxpayer-funded educational resources should be OER. (…) These strategies (…) constitute a wise investment in teaching and learning for the 21st century.” Hal Plotkin (2010), in ‘Free to Learn (…)’: “OER offer higher education governance leaders a cost-efficient method of improving thequality of teaching and learning while at the same time reducing costs imposed on students related to the purchase of expensive commercial textbooks and learning materials.”

16. John Daniel’s Iron Triangle The three sides of his Iron Triangle are: Access / Quality / Costof HigherEducation ICTcantransform the Iron Triangle into a FlexibleTriangle: wider access / higherquality / lowercost of HigherEducation, at the sametime

17. HE performance in 3 Dimensions(unaltered circumstances / conditions) ‘starting ‘increased ‘higher situation’ efficiency’ quality’

18. Hypothesis Performanceimprovement along one dimension inevitably deteriorates the performance along one of both or bothother dimensions, at least atunaltered circumstances and conditions

19. HE performance in 3 Dimensions(after an OER system intervention) ‘starting ‘OER situation’ situation’

20. The OER System Intervention … … facilitatesperformance improvement alongallthreedimensionssimultaneously: 1 Qualitybyinvolvement of many experts and users in variousroles Accessibilityby free online availability of learningmaterials Efficiencybynotreplicatingother’s efforts … andaddsan extra dimension: 4 Innovation

21. Sustainability Message #2 … Mainstreaming OERthrough a nationalstrategy does notincrease the macro budget, onlyrequires a limitedbudget reallocation … … bywhichGovernments are in a betterposition tofulfiltheir overall threefoldresponsibilityfor the quality, accessibilityandefficiency of education … andcanembracetheirresponsibility for a sustainable systemworkingwithOER

22. Exploring new businessmodel at OUNL Creating a new business model forourinstitute in which OER plays a rol www.openu.nl Variouslearningopportunities Personal Digital environment Socialnetwork Information about field of interest Connect: Research – Innovation- Education

23. OpenU model

24. Thanks for your attention! fred.devries@ou.nl http://www.linkedin.com/in/freddevries http://oer.unescochair-ou.nl/ www.openu.nl