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Sharing Open Educational Content Globally
Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M.
Casserly September 2, 2004The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
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What is Open Educational Content?

• Text, images, audio files, etc.
• Freely available on the web for use and reuse
• Focused on teaching, learning and research
  (courseware, full courses, modules, collections,
  data, etc.)

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Open Educational Content Inspired By

• Open Source software movement

• Belief that knowledge and education are common
  goods
• Belief that open content will advance human
  knowledge, creativity, and welfare

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Public Library of Science
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Hewlett Foundation Open Content Goal
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Theory of Change
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Theory of Change
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Hewlett Supported Open Content Projects
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Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
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Harvard Library Open Collections Program

• Unique, subject-based digital collections
• High-quality digital images sharable across
  institutions

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Harvard Library Open Collections Program
First Open Collection Women Working, 1870-1930
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Alexandria Archive
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Other Open Collections Wikipedia
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Other Open Collections Public Library of Science
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Theory of Change
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Remove Barriers
Intellectual Property
- Creative Commons
Interoperability
- SAKAI
- Internet Archive - University of California
Technical Innovation
- CORE - UNESCO - Universia
Culture Language
Sustainability
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Theory of Change
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Understand and Stimulate Use
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation
Development
Evaluation Research
- University of California Berkeley
- UNESCO
Virtual Communities
- Open Learning Support
Stimulate Use
- UNESCO
- World Bank
- Chinese Open Resources for Education
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Understand and Stimulate Use
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From Nabil Sabry, consultant UNESCO
Why OER?
1- Free access to quality resources
And Get Feedback
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From Nabil Sabry, consultant UNESCO
Research with Usersthrough UNECSO

• Adapt / Modify / Implement courses
• Evaluate / Give periodic feedback

Usability report

• Al Akhawayn University Morocco
• Université de Conakry Guinea
• University of Mauritius
• Université Française dEgypte

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Understand and Stimulate Use
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Open Learning Support

• Place for learners to ask questions
• Interaction among users
• Peer group learning
• Large groups without a teacher
• Self-organizes

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Understand and Stimulate Use
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Chinese Open Resources for Education
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Global Sharing of Knowledge
Europe
Asia
North America
Africa
South America
Australia
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Projects and URLs

• Alexandria Archive - http//www.alexandriaarchive.
  org/
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative -
  http//www.cmu.edu/oli/
• Chinese Open Resources for Education -
  http//www.njtu.edu.cn/jg/jgws/content/core.htm
• Creative Commons - http//www.creativecommons.org
• Foothill-De Anza Sharing of Free Intellectual
  Assets (Sofia) - http//sofia.fhda.edu/aboutus.htm
  
• Harvard University Library Open Collections
  Program - http//ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
• Internet Archive http//www.archive.org/
• MIT Open Courseware- http//ocw.mit.edu/index.html
  
• Monterey Institute for Technology and Education,
  National Repository for Online Courses
• http//www.montereyinstitute.org 
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation
  Development - http//www.oecd.org/home/
• Open Learning Support - http//ols.usu.edu
• Rice University Connexions - http//cnx.rice.edu/
• SAKAI - http//www.sakaiproject.org/
• UNESCO - http//62.193.88.141/moodle/mod/resource/
  view.php?id83
• Universia http//www.universia.net/
• University of California Berkeley -
  http//ishi.lib.berkeley.edu80/cshe/projects/univ
  ersity/