1. Role of OCW in Open Education Era
Haruo Takemura
Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
President, Japan OpenCourseWare Consotium
Board Member, OpenCourseWare Consotium

2. Outline
 What is OCW
 Current status of JOCW
 Current status of OCWC
 OCW in relation to OER
 OCW and Globalization in Education
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3. OUTLINE 2
 OCW ⊂ OER
 OPEN ≠ FREE
 OPEN ≠ Reusable
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4. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
What is OpenCourseWare?
An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication
of high quality college and university‐level educational materials.
These materials are organized as courses, and often include
course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic
content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed,
accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.
OCW ≒ Free Textbook + α ？

5. What is OpenCourseWare ?
 Collection of course materials used for university
courses published by individual universities.
 Text book, PPT slides, Hand out, video etc.
 Not always designed for on-line learning.
 Not all courses of participating universities are
published.
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6. Japan OpenCourseWare consortium
 Started on May 13, 2005 as Japan OpenCourseWare
Alliance.
 In year 2006, JOCW officially established.
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7. 会員数
Members of JOCW
43 organizations （ 23 univs. 、 4 NPOs 、 16 companies ）

8. Courses from JOCW

9. Visitors to all JOCW sites
OCWC Global 2011

10. Courses from JOCW
 Most of them are in Japanese (2,500 out of 3,000)
 Because most of courses taught in Japanese Universities
are in Japanese.
 Is this good or bad?
 Global point of view
 Little impact on learners who do not understand
Japanese
 Local point of view
 Good for Japanese learners
 In Japan, Life long learning or recurrent education are not popular yet.
 Nice show case of university education.
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11. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OCW Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of
universities and associated organizations committed to advancing
OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. We serve
as a resource for starting and sustaining OCW projects, as a
coordinating body for the movement on a global scale, and as a
forum for exchange of ideas and future planning.

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Over 250 institutions and
organizations worldwide supporting
open sharing in education

13. OCW growth

14. OCW part of the Open Movement
• OCW is only one type of Open
Educational Resource (OER).
Open Content
• OERs are only one type of Open
Content.
Open Educational
Resources
• We have much to share with each
other.
OCW
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15. What is Value of OCW
• For Universities
• A show case of their education
• Contribution to the society
• For Students
• Resource for deciding which classes to take.
• Self-learning materials.
• For Faculty
• Resource for Faculty Development
• For Prospective Students
• Recourse for deicing which university to study.
• For Alumni

16. Discussions
 OCW v.s. OER
 Is OCW Ready for Open Education ?
 QA issue of OCW
 Emerging O.E. markets
 Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW
 Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher
Education?
 The role of IT in OCW/OER
 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities
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17. Discussions
 OCW v.s. OER
 OCW is designed based on University courses.
 OER has no such a restrictions.
 OCW is usually maintained by a single contributor
 OER may have different strategies
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18. Discussions
 Is OCW Ready for Open Education ?
 OCW based on a face to face lecture contents lacks in
teaching.
 OCW based on a face to face lecture video lacks in
feedback or bi-directional communication between a
instructor and students.
 OCW is not modular based contents.
 Meta Data is missing
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21. Discussions
 QA issue of OCW
 Publishing courses under the name of a University self-
regulate their quality.
 There is no formal review process in many cases
 Connexions or MERLOT may have better strategies ?
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22. Discussions
 Emerging O.E. markets
 Open Education in many cases are not Free Education.
 Who is going to pay costs for Open Education?
 Government ?
 Students ?
 Course providers ?
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23. Discussions
 Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW
 ICT serves to reduce the cost for delivering courses
 Cost for copying
 Cost for delivering
 Cost for producing
 How about cost for teaching, testing and communicating?
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24. Discussions
 Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher
Education?
 Have Open Source Software speeded up advancement in
Software Development ? -- Yes or Maybe
 This may not true for OCW/OER, because
 Revising curse contents is much more complicated than
programming.
 Programming has less cultural issues than education.
 Programming is much more self-descriptive than course
contents.
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25. Discussions
 The role of IT in OCW/OER
 Course publication
 LMS, CMS integration.
 Use of cloud base services
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26. Discussions
 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities
 Are MOOCs Open Education?
 Yes, they are open to public but not always free.
 Why many top level universities are interested in MOOCs
 Large test bed for pedagogical study.
 Good way to find out potential students.
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27. Conclusion
 OCW contents needs to be redesigned so that the
contents can be reused in various forms.
 Use of IT from the design of a course may improve
the situation. Module based course design can be
achieved with help of good authoring software.
 Lecture capture with automated caption and
translation may help a lot to reduce production costs
of OCW.
 Pedagogical approach is essential for success.
 Technology oriented strategy may stall at some point.

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30. Thank your for your attention.
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