Jan-Bart de Vreede Kennisnet

1. Wikiwijs, A public OER initiative as
driver for educational innovation
10th of March 2017

2. Introductions
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Domain manager Learning Materials and
Metadata of the Kennisnet Foundation.
Served on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees
for 9 years.

3. Disclaimer
The Netherlands is fortunate in that our government has been
investing in ICT in education for a long time (and also in that
we have had the financial ability to do so)
And not just focusing on technology, but also adoption and
effective use.
Allowing us to build the infrastructure that serves as a strong
foundation for use of ICT in education.

4. About Kennisnet
The Dutch public foundation charged with ensuring effective
use of ICT technology within Primary, Secondary and
Vocational Educational Institutions.
Both facilitating the educational process as well as the other
(administrative) processes within the institutions.
Two branches:
1) Expertise
2) Services

5. A little background
• Primary and Secondary Education is mostly “method-
driven”.
• Public schools have ”Freedom of education”
• Dominated by a few (relatively) large players
• Small market = no large budgets for innovation
• Methods leave little room for teacher ownership
• Vocational institutions often have their own (open) methods

6. A Market in Turmoil
• Changing Education
• Changing roles of existing players
• New Players
• Adaptive Learning Technology
• Student Dashboards
Our challenge: facilitate innovation

7. It is not Open versus Closed
Realistically the mix between open and closed content is
the biggest opportunity in the Netherlands
This allows both to become more effective in meeting the
individual students needs.
Using open standards for all components to make the
content easily available to (commercial) partners.

8. Importance of OER for Dutch Education

9. Serves the students better

10. Teacher Ownership

11. Not Cost!

12. Better Variety of Content

13. And Innovation

14. Innovation

15. Educational Chain of Educational Materials
Classic version
Publisher Book
Distributor
Student
Teachers

16. Educational Chain of Educational Materials
Changing Landscape
StudentsPublishers LMS/ELO
Teacher
Online
Resources
LINK!
LINK!
LINK!

17. Educational Chain of Educational Materials
What we are working towards
StudentsPublishers LMS/ELO
Teacher
Online
Resources
OER Platform
(Wikiwijs)
LINK
Links
Results
Content
Content &
Feedback
Teacher
Community
OEP
Community

18. What infrastructure?
Primary Elements
Supporting Elements
Authoring Sharing Labeling Discoverable Remixable
Wikiwijs Create Wikiwijs
Reposittory
Metadata Tools Edurep
Search Portals
If open then
downloadable in
open standard
Authentication Results
feedback
Metadata Devices in the
classroom
Community
Building
Kennisnet
Federation
Open Standard
exchange of
learning results
Standards for
learning goals
&
API
Expertise Support for (OEP)
community with
their own quality
benchmarks

19. All these are “plugable” pieces of the
chain
Which can be used individually
Labeling
Creation
(Access/
Identity)
Discovery
/Search
Metadata
Use
(Re-use)

20. Some examples of innovation in the
landscape

21. VO-Content
• Content Creation for secondary schools using CC-BY-SA
license on Wikiwijs Platform
• 7 euro’s per student per year to be a participating school
• 102 school years of materials currently available
• Actively working with Online Learning Environments
• Core lessons

23. Mixing open and clopsed
• First collaborations between the closed and open space
for working together on making more content available.
• (part of a dutch breakthrough project funded by the
ministry)
• The challenge is clarity of learning goals

24. Fort Europa

25. A cross publisher dashboard
(uses open standard for result exchange but it is a closed platform)

26. Multi-Challenged Students
• An example of a portal for a very niche branche.
• For the first time teachers are exchanging not just links,
but entire lessons

27. The Holy Grail
When schools are able to create their own “Learning
Lines”, combining open and closed by being able to buy
only those parts that they need from commercial
publishers and combine it with open material while having
clear insight into the learning goals.

28. Thank you!
J.devreede@kennisnet.nl