Revisioning open education practices and resources

Revisioning open education practices and resources

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Prof Mpine MakoeCommonwealth of Learning

Chair: OER/OEPUniversity of South Africa

We educate for the future …

Social cohesion

Economic growthDevelopment

Underlying PrinciplesEducation is a fundamental human right and an enabling right

Education is a public good

Education ensures equitable access to life opportunities

Education is about Sharing

Information

KnowledgeInsights

• Mentoring• Public

lectures

Oral Tradition

E Establishment of universities

Middle Ages

Rise of public education

Industrial Revolution

Knowledge as a gift from God (Tuchman, 1987)

Knowledge as a commodity

Massificationof access to knowledge

Knowledge belongs to humanity

Shaping the purposes for higher education

Connecting the higher education ecosystem

Contribution to social and economic development

Designing education for all

Fulfilling the right to education

Crafting flexible and inclusive programmes

Creating and sharing knowledges

Producing knowledges for the common good

Embracing plural ways of knowing and doing

Responding to global challenges

Providing education with a soul

Open

Digital

Collaborative

Personal

Cultural and Epistemic diversity

LICENCING

Any education materials that are freely available under an open license

Desire to learn model (knowledge abundance)

ability-to-pay model (knowledge scarcity)

Conditions (licence) AttributionShare-AlikeNon-commercialNo-modify

Freedom to Access

Copy Use Adapt Share

OER

Types of OER

Content• Full courses• Textbooks• Study guides• Images• Rubrics• Videos• Worksheets• Games• Simulation

Tools• Freely available software

and services that can be used in the creation, development, collaboration, delivery, search and use of open learning content

Why use OER• Digitised content can be shared easily• Encourages collaboration and sharing of knowledge allowing

others to improve on it• Enable innovative approaches of teaching and learning• Reduces costs of accessing learning materials• It eliminates duplication of efforts by building on what

already exists• Strengthen one’s professional reputation by increasing the

impact of your teaching• Universities can market their services • Students are active participants in the learning process

Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

Berlin Open Access to knowledge Declaration (2003)

Open Learning Framework(2017)

Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)

2009 La declaration de Dakar sur les

OER Regional Policy Forum for Africa (2012)

1 • Flexibility

2 • Lifelong Learning

3 • Student centredness

4 • Accessibility

5 • Equity

6 • Inclusivity

Social Justice Principles

Open Education

Economic Justice Accessibility Open Education Resources,Open textbooks, Open access

Cultural Justice Inclusivity Open curriculum

Political Justice Equity Open pedagogyOpen policies

Digital Justice

Explore how Higher Education might look like in future

2017/18

• SDG 2030• Teaching

and Learning

2020

• Covid-19 pandemic

• Teaching, Learning, structures and systems

2021

• Visioning 2050

• Focus on higher education in totality

Rethink Redefine Repurpose

Mission/ purpose

Role in relation to social justice mandate

Workable solutions

Shaping the purposes for higher education

Connecting the higher education ecosystem

Contribution to social and economic development

Designing education for all

Fulfilling the right to education

Crafting flexible and inclusive programmes

Creating and sharing knowledges

Producing knowledges for the common good

Embracing plural ways of knowing and doing

Responding to global challenges

Providing education with a soul

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,unlearn, and relearn.Alvin Toffler

Future Shock, 1970

• Unlocking knowledge and information for the benefit of all

• Widening participation in HE• Promoting lifelong learning• Enhancing the public image

of the institution• Sharing knowledge amongst

institutions• Reduction in the costs of

development and delivery of study material

BENEFITS

Rethinking education beyond Covid19

Strive for an education system that is inclusive, equitable, accessible, and that enables parity of participation to

achieve the education we want

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition

Alvin Toffler

Prof Mpine MakoeInstitute for Open Distance Learning University of South Africaqakisme@unisa.ac.za