Nearly 200 institutional members in the OCWC

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The OCW Movement Has Achieved Lift Off

• Nearly 200 institutional members in the OCWC
• Approximately 9,000 courses posted
• 95 published sites
• Over 130 million creative commons licenses issued

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• 8 years of OpenCourseWare

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• 4 years for the OCWC

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Course Growth Since 2003
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Course Growth By Region
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Visitors by Role
Other 5
Educators 15
Self learners 50
Students 30
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Traffic by Region
18.1
41.8
21.0
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4.9
1.4
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Traffic by Region
18.1
41.8
21.0
8.4
4.9
1.4
4.4
Mirror sites  Approx. 209 around the globe
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Traffic by Country Feb 09
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OCWC Organizational Growth

• One full year with independent organizational
  structure
• Elected Board
• Dues-paying membership

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Emerging Trends Barriers

• republishing OCW
• OCW-In
• Credit for OCW
• OCW and Informal learning

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Republishing OCW

• Once OCW has been offered online, it becomes
  available to be posted on other similar Web sites
• Barrier
• Discoverability

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Searching for OCW A Categorization

• Search Engines
• Google, Yahoo
• RSS aggregators
• OCWC Course Finder, OER Commons (with
  customization)
• Collections and Repositories
• Connexions, Merlot, Knowledge Hub, UNESCO
• University Websites (and other sites)
• MIT 90 others

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OCW-in

• Institutions consume OCW rather than produce it,
  by including OCW courses or materials into their
  existing courses
• Barriers
• Slow up-take of wide-scale use of OCW, especially
  in developing countries
• Not invented here bias
• The context problem

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OCW-in

• It is clear that the simple existence of free and
  open material is necessary but not sufficient for
  wide scale adoption and use

• Slow Up-take of Wide Scale and
  Organized Use of OCW

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Credit for OCW

• Related to OCW-in and Open Degree Movements
• Institutional intervention required
• Barrier
• Student authentication

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OCW and Informal Learning

• Trend spurred by from national and international
  social networking
• Result is the development of learning communities

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OCWC and Video

• Challenges
• Opportunities

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OCWC Challenges

• Turning from production to use
• Embedding quality considerations
• Finding a sustainable model for the consortium
• Building a value proposition for membership
• Engaging in projects that are participant-driven

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OCW Opportunities

• Portfolio growth
• Economic Development Model
• Localization, reuse, feedback loop
• From Courses to Curricula
• Delft programs in sustainable development, water
  management, offshore engineering

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OCWC and Video

• Challenges
• Video presents higher technical challenges
• Discoverability is still a significant problem
  for OCWC
• Opportunities
• Video is a significant draw for learners and
  reproduces the classroom
• Semantic web offers new approach to
  discoverability

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OCWC and Video

• Can OCWC develop an OpenCourseWare video portal
  that
• satisfies its need for sustainability,
• provides value to its institutional members, and
• plays a role in overcoming obstacles to OCWs use
  and reuse.