Brief overview of the status of and what's driving the Open Education progress based on attending the Open Education Global Conference in Banff, Alberta http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

1. Lynn Sutherland
Open Education Global
Conference Report
Banff, Alberta
April 22-24, 2015
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

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3. Open Education
• What is Open Education?
• History
• Drivers
• Open Education Policy
• What are Open Education Resources?
• Creative Commons Licencing
• Where are Open Education Resources?
• References

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5. History
• Open Universities
• UK Open University founded in 1969 to broadcast education widely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
• Correspondence Courses to Distance Education to Online Learning
• Athabasca University founded in 1970 in Alberta to provide distance education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_University
• MIT Open Courseware – 2002
• Khan Academy – 2006
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – 2008
• Coursera, Edacity, edX – 2012
• Lynda.com acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5B – 2015
• Learning Management Systems, Student Portfolios, Blended Learning are
becoming commonplace
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6. Drivers
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7. Drivers
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8. Open Education Policy
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http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/12/06/united-states-releases-its-second-open-
government-national-action-plan

9. What are Open Education Resources?
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10. Creative Commons Licensing
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See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for details
Four Building blocks
Six main uses

11. Where are Open Education Resources?
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12. References & Attribution
• Some content of this presentation from: Una Daly, Kate Hess: Open Access
Week 2014 Keynote
• http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/open-access-week-college-of-du-page-keynote
• All Open Education Global 2015 “Open Education 101” preconference
workshop slides and notes available here
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/presentations/pre-conference-workshop/
• MIT Open Courseware
• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• OpenStax College
• https://openstaxcollege.org/
• BCcampus
• http://bccampus.ca/
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