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Open Educational Resources:Open Educational Resources:Stimulating Global Knowledge SharingStimulating Global Knowledge Sharing

Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D.Dean, Continuing Education

University of California, Irvine

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Director-General of UNESCO,Koïchiro Matsuura

“One of our core missions is to promote thefree exchange of ideas and knowledge; tomaintain, increase and disseminate knowledgethrough our work in education, the sciences,culture and communication.”

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Open EducationalContent Inspired By:• Open Source software movement• Belief that knowledge and education are

common goods• Belief that open educational content will

advance human knowledge, creativity,and social welfare

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Open Educational Resources• High quality digitized materials• Freely available on the web for use and

re-use• Focused on teaching, learning and

research• Tools for creating, using, re-using and

sharing

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The Economics of OER• Much of the existing developed learning

content has:– Low commercial value– High social value

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Open Content:OpenCourseWare

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Open Content: Full Courses

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Open Content:Library Collections

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Open Content:Subject Area Collections

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Open Content:General Collections

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Strength Indicatorsof the OER Movement

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Japan OCWAlliance

CORE

ParisTech

Universia

MIT, Tufts,Berkman

JHSPHUSU

NotreDame

U Mich

FETP

DAU

UWC

AVU

OCW Movement –Emerging OCWs

• 36 institutions live OCW sites• 35 institutions early development• 11 countries and 6 languages

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)• 1,100 course to date• 1,800 course by 2007• 33 disciplines

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Wikipedia1.4 billion hits monthly

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Creative Commons Licenses -Growing Adoption

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10,000,000

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30,000,000

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60,000,000

2002 2003 2004 2005

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Growing Global Networks

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K-12 OER Projects in thePipeline• High School Advanced Placement Courses – MITE• Science Teachers Training -- National Science

Teachers Association \• Science & Math Teacher Certification – UC Irvine

CSET Courses• Math & Science Courses -- British Open University• African Teacher Training -- TESSA• Multi-national efforts -- European Union

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Theory of Change

EQUALIZE ACCESSTO KNOWLEDGE

RemoveBarriers

High-QualityOpen Content

Understandand Stimulate

Use

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Remove Barriers

InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools

- Sakai- EtudesNG- Connexions- Internet Archive- EduTools

IntellectualIntellectualPropertyProperty

- Creative Commons- Stanford U Copyright Determination

Culture &Culture &LanguageLanguage

- UNESCO- Chinese Open Resources for Education- African Virtual University

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Understand andStimulate Use

VirtualVirtualCommunitiesCommunities

- UNESCO IIEP- Open Learning Support

Evaluation &Evaluation &ResearchResearch

- OECD OER study- Berkeley Digital Resource Study- African Virtual University Gap Analysis- ISKME Re-use Study

StimulateStimulateUseUse - Chinese Open Resources for Education- Chinese Open Resources for Education

- Development Gateway- Development Gateway- OER Exchange- OER Exchange

- Widernet

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Understand & Stimulate Use• Organized and searchable

• What users want

• Culturally appropriate

• Disseminate widely

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Portal Development

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Goals for 2006• Build out key collections

– OCW, full courses, content areas• Expand use and usefulness

– Portals, distribution sites, translations,partners, research

• Continue building capacity– IP, community tools

• Sustainability – a dilemma

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OER and the CommunityCollege• Community College as Producer

– Natural collection/sharing activity– Piggyback on national effort– Join the club/gain exposure– Change agent– Faculty development

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OER and the CommunityCollege• Community College as Consumer

– Course development– Learner supplements– Remediation– Continuous improvement