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Presenters: Una Daly, Community College Outreach Manager at Open Courseware Consortium, Tom Caswell, Western Governor's University, Mrs. Frances Ferreira, Education Specialist for Open Schooling Initiative at Commonwealth of Learning. Summary: The unanimous adoption of the 2012 Paris OER Declaration at the UNESCO World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress heralds a profound change to how publicly funded educational resources may be openly licensed and shared in the coming years. A small number of large-scale publicly funded OER projects are in process, many more are anticipated worldwide, and effective strategies for managing this policy shift are needed. In this session we will examine two case studies to learn which strategies are currently being used to support publicly funded OER projects, and discuss what support will be needed to ensure the success of future large OER projects as more governments adopt open policies to require publicly funded resources be openly licensed resources. Case Study 1: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) created the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program to encourage community colleges to create open education and vocational programs for unemployed workers. It represents one effort to introduce open policies into publicly funded projects by requiring that all materials created or modified with grant / public funds carry a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license to guarantee the resources can be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed. Recognizing the need for grantees to fully understand these requirements, a private foundation is providing support for an OPEN Consortium (http://open4us.org) to provide consulting and direct technical assistance on open licensing, leveraging existing OER, universal design, accessibility, meta-data tagging, learning analytics, and developing open courseware. The TAConnecT program is another support mechanism that matches grantees with organizations that have expertise in many areas including faculty development of OER, measuring learning outcomes, developmental adult education, career workforce education, and open eLearning platforms. Case Study 2: The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning / distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL has a decade-long history of helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training and the Open Schooling Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa represents a multi-country project to use OER and technology to implement universal access to secondary school education. Using professional development workshops, educators and policymakers have received training on development and operation of open schools. Topics have included OER development, instructional design, radio broadcasting, learner suppor
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Effective Strategies to Support Large-scale Government OER
Programs:
Frances Ferreira, Commonwealth of Learning Tom Caswell, Western Governor’s University
Una Daly, OCW Consortium
OPEN ED 2012
African & Caribbean Open Schooling Initiative
U.S. Department of Labor TAACCCT Grant
Proposals due December 2
2012 Paris OER Declaration
• Large-scale publicly-funded government projects creating and using OER
– What has been learned …– How to apply to new projects …– Sharing the lessons learned …
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Open Schooling Initiative
• Mrs Frances J. Ferreira– Commonwealth of Learning
• Sub-Saharan Africa• Caribbean Nations
Open Educational Resources for Open Schools
Frances Ferreira, Education Specialist, Commonwealth of Learning
Key Problem the Project is Trying to Address
While the world average for secondary school enrolment is 65%, the GER in SSA is 30%, which is up from 19% in 1990/91 (At the Crossroads: Choices for secondary education and training in SSA, World Bank: Africa Human Development Department, 2007, p.4).
What Choices do Policymakers Have?
Access remains inequitable, especially in rural areas with girls being particularly disadvantaged. As governments stretch their resources to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015, it is unlikely that the expansion of secondary provision will be a priority.
Theory of Action
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Open schooling is an appropriate response to the rapidly increasing demand for secondary education, it can be conducted at scale and cost-effectively.
It has the potential for complementing the conventional school system and using ICTs to scale up education.
Theory for Change
• COL/WFHF
• Policy Shift
• Assistance – Ministries of Education / Teachers
• Agreements – Priority for Implementing and Using OER
While teachers are interested in using technology to improve the learning experience, lack of professional development and access to resources impede the effective use of technology and concomitant development of OERs.
What have we learned?????
Enabling Environment
• Ignorance re OER/CC• Instructional Design• Culture and work habits• Additional workload• Connectivity• Bandwidth
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Platforms for Innovation
Building the capacity of teachers is KEY when developing OERs and for achieving effective use of technology in the classroom.
Support - Credibility
Leadership
Monitoring and Evaluation
Incentives
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Open Schooling Raised the Game…
Learning materials are available as OERs in multiple formats to suit as wide a range of
users as possible
www.col.org
www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/osoer/Pages/default.aspx
TAACCCT U.S. Dept of Labor
• Tom Caswell and Cable Green– Open Consortium for Community College
Grantees• Licensing• Accessibility• Learning• Content• Policies
More info atopen4us.org
“…as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (“Grant”), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (“Work”) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (“License”).”
“OPEN” Consortia Supports ALL DOL TAACCCT Grantees
Areas Supported By The“OPEN” Consortium Include:
• Open licensing (CC-BY requirement)• Effective course and learning design• Universal design for learning and
accessibility• Best practices in open policy and OER
adoption• Increasing access to existing OER
Lessons Learned:
• Many grantees and projects are new to “open”• Clear language in legislation / policy re: open policy
requirements – no “wiggle room”• Partner with government leaders where possible• Meet f2f with grantees early – build relationships• Advertise early – so projects think about and plan
for your technical assistance from the beginning
More info at open4us.orgContact: [email protected]
Commonalities
• Open Licensing Confusion
• Early Interventions & Incentives
• Partnering with Regulators/Govt.
• Ongoing Monitoring & Evaluation
Discussion/Questions
• Contact Info
– Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortiumorg
– Frances J. [email protected]
– Tom Caswell & Cable Green [email protected]
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