Slides from the Leicester OER Schools conference which took place at the Phoenix on Thursday 29 January 2015. Leicester City Council will be holding a free day conference focusing on finding, using, creating and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oer-schools-conference-registration-13959973657 School leaders, staff and governors from primary, secondary, SEN and specialist schools are invited to attend.

1. Open Education
OER and
Marieke Guy
Marieke.guy@okfn.org
OER Schools Conference, 29th January 2015
Around the world

3. Open Knowledge
Promoting open knowledge in a digital age
● A community-based, not-for-profit with projects and
partnerships throughout the world
● We build tools, apps and communities to create, use
and share open data and content - information that
everyone can use, share and build on
● We believe that by creating an open knowledge
commons and developing tools and communities
around this we can make a significant contribution to
improving governance, research and the economy
● Collaboration not control, empowerment not
exploitation, open not closed
https://okfn.org/

4. Open Education
About removing barriers to education
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5. Open Education
Part of a wave of cultural change
• Long history: Public library movement, state provided education,
civil rights movement, open universities
• Next step in the evolution of education: You need to be aware
of open education as educators
• Credible global movement: Obama announcement in U.S. Open
Government Partnership National Action Plan, European
Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes Opening Up
Education initiative
• Tools are often enablers rather than drivers : “Technology is
available to develop either independence and learning or
bureaucracy and teaching” (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971)

6. Open Education
A welcoming and accessible community
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7. Traditional Education
More than learning and teaching..
• Learning: whether through instruction, guided activity or self-
directed learning;
• Teaching: mentoring and all non-instructivist activities around the
deliberate nurturing of knowledge;
• Assessment: any combination of summative, formative and/or
diagnostic;
• Accreditation: recognising learner or educator accomplishment;
• Policymaking: influencing curriculum, funding and procedures in
education; and
• Administration: dealing with recruitment, admissions, retention,
progression, graduation, timetabling, reporting, and management.

8. • Policy
• Open Education
Resources
• Accreditation
• Licences
• Tools
• Data
• Learning and
teaching practice
Open Education Pie

9. Open
Education
Working
Group
…established to bring together
people and groups interested in
open education. Its goal is to
initiate global cross-sector and
cross-domain activity that
encompasses the various facets
of open education.
http://education.okfn.org

10. Open Education Around the World
Series of posts
• Greenland
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• Scotland
• Tanzania
• India
• South Africa
• Rwanda
• Holland …

11. Europe: Poerup Project
http://www.poerup.info/

12. UK: OER Research Hub
http://oerresearchhub.org/
http://oermap.org/sector/school-k12/

13. Ireland: Open Text books
http://bit.ly/1y7A8Gf

14. Iceland: Education Plaza
http://menntamidja.is/

15. Germany: Learn:Line
http://www.learnline.schulministerium.nrw.de/

16. Finland: Edu.fi
http://edu.fi/

17. US: Washington OER
https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/washington

18. Phillipines: LRMDS
http://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/

19. Japan: eboard
http://www.eboard.jp/

20. South Africa: Siyavula
http://www.siyavula.com/

21. Africa: OER Africa
http://www.oerafrica.org

22. India: Opening books
http://in.okfn.org/open-education/

23. Keyword Hypothesis
Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction
Openness People use OER differently from other online materials
Access OER widen participation in education
Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies
Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice
Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions
Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER
Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support
Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study
Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies
Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER
From Beatriz de los Arcos, OER Research Hub
http://slidesha.re/1xKl7H6
Benefits of OER

24. From Closed to Open
With Open Educational Resources
Closed content is the default and people need compelling
reasons to replace it with OER. When the norms have
changed, OER will be in the mainstream…. If we want OER
to become the default, we need people to use OER and to
know that they are using OER.”
TJ Bliss, Williama and Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://tjbliss.org/the-doctor-and-the-gym/

25. Marieke Guy
Marieke.guy@okfn.org
Twitter @mariekeguy