Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
2. The Why, What and How
of Open Education
Mary Lou Forward
Open Education Consortium
October 3, 2014
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
3. Why: philosophical & practical underpinnings
What: definitions & examples
How: national and international case studies
Discussion
25. “Free” Copy, Distribute, Edit
we can educate as never before
Slides 6-11, 14-25 & 56 taken or modified from TJ Bliss, John Hilton & David Wiley
http://www.slideshare.net/tjbliss/introduction-to-oer-workshop CC-BY 3.0
28. while tuition and fees increased by 89 percent and overall consumer
prices grew by 28 percent.
Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and
Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
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29. $1,207
Average student budget for books and
supplies 2013-2014 academic year
Source http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-
2013-14
34. 2 in 3
Students say they didn’t buy the
textbook because the cost is too high
Source http://www.uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market
35. 1 in 2
Students say they have taken fewer
courses due to the cost of textbooks
Source http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
39. Textbook Market
Slides 27-41 taken or modified from Nicole Allen http://www.slideshare.net/txtbks/keynote-nercomp
40. Selects what to publish,
when to update, what to
include or exclude
Doesn’t have the option
to customize materials
to their teaching
Pedagogy & the Textbook Market
No choice, required
purchase, limited feedback
41. Selects what to publish,
when to update, what to
include or exclude
Doesn’t have the option
to customize materials
to their teaching
Pedagogy & the Textbook Market
No choice, required
purchase, limited feedback
42. Demand & Access
Last leg of the philosophical and practical stool
43. World Bank, The State of Education, 2011
18.1
20.0
22.5
24.0
25.9 27.1
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Gross Enrolment Rate. Tertiary (ISCED 5 & 6). Total (%)
EAP ECA LAC MNA SAS SSA WLD
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics in EdStats, July 2011
Note: SAS 2009 is 2008 data.
46. Q. How many UMass sized universities can we build
in the next 5-10 years?
http://library.umassmed.edu/omha/american_archives2009/more_photos.html
47. “Today there are 158 million
people enrolled in tertiary
education1. Projections suggest
that that participation will peak
at 263 million2 in 2025.
Accommodating the additional
105 million students would
require more than four major
universities (30,000 students) to
open every week for the next
fifteen years.
By: COL
http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/John
Daniel_2008_3x5.jpg
1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures
2 British Council and IDP Australia projections
Slide from http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/open-education-the-business-andpolicy-case-for-oer
48. Q. How many UMass sized universities can we build
in the next 5-10 years?
http://library.umassmed.edu/omha/american_archives2009/more_photos.html
49. Q. How many UMass sized universities can we build
in the next 5-10 years?
A. Not enough
http://library.umassmed.edu/omha/american_archives2009/more_photos.html
51. What is Open Education?
Open Education encompasses resources, tools and
practices that employ a framework of open sharing to
improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.
Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge
sharing and creation with 21st century technology to
create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources
while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop
educational approaches that are more responsive to
learner’s needs.
52. Open Education Allows
Higher Education
to reconsider approaches
to teaching and learning
53. Open Education
Terms
• Open Educational Resources
• OpenCourseWare
• Open Educational Practice
• Open Textbooks
= Free and Open
54. OER are teaching, learning, and
research materials that permit
their free use and re-purposing by
others
55. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to modify
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/
In regions where the percentage is still very low, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, the growth rate is among the highest in the world.
To meet this demand would require a furious pace of building physical infrastructure, which carries a similarly burdensome financial investment. Alternatively, we can seek non traditional solutions, in which OER can play an important role.
And the world needs this dream to come true … and quickly… if we are to meet the global demand for higher / tertiary education.
Sir John Daniel, President & DEO of the Commonwealth of Learning notes:
What do you think the odds are the world will build four major universities (30,000 students) to open every week for the next fifteen years?
Free = no cost
Open = no cost and openly licensed, at least including the right to modify
Another interesting activity being undertaken in Indonesia is the use of OER in formal educational program. The University of Bandun wanted to develop programs in water management. As you know, developing new courses and programs requires a significant financial and time commitment. Rather than investing in faculty developing theoretical lectures, they decided to use these lectures freely and openly offered by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and focus their development efforts on contextualizing theoretical and practical approaches in Indonesian environments and society.
Students benefit from this approach by having more hands on opportunities to explore the application of theory and approach in their local situations. Faculty become engaged in producing locally relevant activities and content, which is then put back as OER so that the rest of the world can benefit from their experience and begin to understand how theoretical concepts can be interpreted and operationalized in different contexts around the world.