Open Educational Resources

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Open Educational Resources

• Brazil
• December 2008

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Open Access Repositories
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Open Access Journals
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Public Access

• Bethesda Statement Berlin Declaration
• Research funded by governments should be
  available to public (taxpayers)
• Maximize dissemination of research
• Research is cumulative - science advances only
  through sharing of results.

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Open Educational Resources

• Digitized materials offered freely and openly
  for educators, students and self-learners to use
  and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
• UNESCO. 2002. Forum on the impact of Open
  Courseware for higher education in developing
  countries. Final report. Paris UNESCO.

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Open Educational Resources

• Learning Content Full courses, courseware,
  content modules, learning objects, and
  collections.
• Tools Software to support the development, use,
  re-use and delivery of learning content.
• Implementation Resources Intellectual property
  licenses to promote open publishing of materials
  and localization of content.

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Open Educational Resources

• Reference materials
• Open textbooks/learning materials
• Open courses

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Strategies for OE

• Open education policy Governments, school
  boards, colleges and universities should make
  taxpayer-funded educational resources OER.
• Open content licenses OER should be freely
  shared through open licenses which facilitate
  use, revision, translation, improvement and
  sharing.
• Collaborative production Educators and students
  can participate in creating, using, adapting and
  improving OER.

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• A revolution of sorts is sweeping
  education...In another promising development, a
  coalition of educators, foundations and Internet
  pioneers in January signed a declaration urging
  governments and publishers to make publicly
  funded educational material available free over
  the Internet. The Cape Town Open Education
  Declaration has so far been signed by more than
  140 organizations and nearly 1,500 individuals.
• Wall Street Journal,
  March 28, 2008

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Lessons from OA to OE

• Open source software
• Open content licenses
• Coalition building
• Outreach/movement building
• Open Access News
• Open Education News
• Engage business
• Public access
• Support champions/pilot countries

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Pilot countries

• Poland
• Australia
• Brazil

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Poland

• Open textbook project, k-12
• OER working group
• Creative Commons Polska
• Polish Wikipedia Association
• Association of Polish Librarians
• Modern Poland Foundation
• Political support (Deputy Prime Minister)
• Dept of Education
• Interest in CTD (339 signatures, 18)

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Australia

• Digital Education - A1.2 billion
• Australian ICT for Education Committee
• Content should be open and shared and adaptable
  
• Political support (Deputy Prime
  Minister/Education Minister)
• Review of National Innovation System (Cutler
  Report)

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• We are on the cusp of a global revolution in
  teaching and education.
• Cape Town Declaration

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Thanks

• Pictures by
• Melissa HagemannInformation ProgramOpen
  Society Institutemhagemann_at_sorosny.org