Renewal in education by using Open Educational Resources (OER)

Ron ZuijlenInformation Energy 2015 – 3 June 2015Utrecht

Agenda

• Why open• Trends • VO-content• Results• Goals • Challenges

Trends

• Growing use of mobile devices • Cloud computing• Sharing knowledge, experiences and

resources• Use of Open Educational Resources• Use of Learning Analytics

Why Open Education Matters

Use of Open Educational Resources

Growing use of mobile devices

Cloud computing

Sharing knowledge, experiences and resources

Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics

VO-content

• Set up by schools in 2011• Cooperation based• Not for profit organisation

How do we do this?

Charge of €7,- per student per year for members used to:• Create and reuse new content and

improve existing content• Improve accessibility of content by using

partners

Results in 4 years

• Creative commons license by-sa – Some objects excluded

• Open source content for 10 subjects• 63 different courses (60 – 280 hours /

course)• + 25% of dutch schools are participating• Cost reduction on books• Innovation impuls

Personalised learning

Digitalisation

Teacher skills

Goals (I)

Enhancing co-creation

Goals (II)

Quality assurance

Learning Analytics as a means• Enhances personalised learning

• More information about results and student levels available for schools

• Improves content and flexible useAllows:– Quality assurance– Co-creation– Re-use of material created by other users

Challenge (I)

Work with open standardscontent packagingmetadatalearning results and statistics

Challenge (II)

How to collect user information on open source content?

User statisticsUser revisionsUser improvementsUser experience

Any questions?

What does ‘open’ mean?

• Content created under a ‘Creative Commons’ license• Reuse• Revise• Remix • Redistribute

ronzuijlen@vo-content.nl

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