Who am I?
• Robert Schuwer
• Lector (professor) OER @ Fontys University of Applied
Sciences, School of ICT, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
• Since 2006 in the field of OER
• Several OER implementation projects
– Institutional level (OUNL)
– National level (Wikiwijs)
• Background: Mathematics, Computer Science
About Fontys
• University of Applied Sciences
• South of the Netherlands
• ~44,000 students
• ~4100 staff members
• Practical orientation
• 432 Bachelor & Master programs
Introduction
• Who are you?
• What is your affiliation?
• What is your experience with open education?
• What do you expect to learn from this workshop?
Tobias Wolter CC BY-SA
Agenda
• What are OER?
• Why OER?
• What is a MOOC?
• What is Open Education?
• Challenges for introducing OER
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Let’s start!
Phil McElhinney CC BY-SA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(running)#/media/File:Start_Jeremy_Wariner_2007.jpg
Open Educational Resources
• Digital, freely available learning materials
• User has five rights
– Reuse “as is”
– Rework
– Remix
– Redistribute
– Retain
• Certain conditions
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Conditions: open license
Creative Commons
• Four building blocks
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Attribution
NonCommercial
ShareAlike
NoDeriv
Six possible licenses
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Attribution CC BY
Attribution – ShareAlike CC BY-SA
Attribution – NonCommercial CC BY-NC
Attribution – NoDerivs CC BY-ND
Attribution – NonCommercial – ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
History
• 2001: MIT
• 2002: UNESCO
• 2005: Open Courseware Consortium
• 2008: First (c)MOOC (Downes & Siemens)
• 2011: First (x)MOOC (Thun & Norvig)
• 2012: Paris OER Declaration
• 2014: Open Education Consortium
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Source: Abel Caine, UNESCO
http://dp.la/
https://p2pu.org/en/
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
https://www.boundless.com/
http://www.oerafrica.org/
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Benefits of OER
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http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi/benefits-and-challenges-of-oer-for-higher-education-institutions (Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams)
Benefits of OER (2)
• Personalized learning
• Fosters innovation
• Teaching = sharing
• Moral argument: learning materials payed by taxpayers’
money should be available for free
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Why not OER?
• Challenges for implementing an OER/based curriculum
(later)
• More work!
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MOOC
• Massive: many participants (> Dunbars number)
• Open: free available
• Online: via the internet
• Course: unit of offer (5-10 weeks througput time)
• Complete learning experience
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MOOC providers (Apr 2015)
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Overviews
• Class-Central https://www.class-central.com/
• MOOCtivity http://www.mooctivity.com/
• Coursetalk http://www.coursetalk.com/
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Model of Open Education
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OpenEducation
Learning resources
Teaching effortServices
Learner Environment
Supply
Demand
http://www.surf.nl/binaries/content/assets/surf/en/knowledgebase/2013/Trend+Report+OER+2013_EN_DEF+07032013+%28LR%29.pdf, page 36
Types of open
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OpenEducation
Learning resources
Teaching effortsServices
•Free available•Open in 5R meaning:
•Reuse•Revise•Remix•Redistribute•Retain
•Open in place•Open in time•Open in pace•Open in program•Open admission
Not free per se!
Openness of OER
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Learning resources
Teaching effortsServices
OER
•Free available•Open in 5R meaning:
•Reuse•Revise•Remix•Redistribute•Retain
•Open in place•Open in time•Open in pace•Open in program•Open admission
•Free available•Open in 5R meaning:
•Reuse•Revise•Remix•Redistribute•Retain
•Open in place•Open in time•Open in pace•Open in program•Open admission
Openness of a MOOC
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Learning resources
Teaching effortsServices
MOOC
•Forum
•Feedback
•Exam
•Certificate
•Teacher
•Teaching assistant
MOOC vs OER: applicability
MOOC OER
Ready to use Learning objects. Need effort before
using
Applicable “As-is” Personalization possible
Targeted at learner Targeted at teacher
Applicable in specific situations Broad spectrum of application
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Paradox for (re)usability:
(David Wiley)
OER
Applicability for reuse
fixe
d c
on
text
MOOC
Potential hurdles
• Findability of OER
• Quality of OER
– Context specific
• Open licenses
• Business models
• Human factors
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