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Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan
& Policy
Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey
Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
OPEN BOOK PROJECTEducational Diplomacy
2013-2014
OER Exchange Program
Promoting Open Educational ResourcesMiddle East & North
Africa
1- 21-March-2014
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,
Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan,
Tunisia, Yemen, USA
Sponsored by: US State Department, Arab League, ALECSO
World Learning
Open Education Consortium
Creative Commons
OER Exchange Participants photo by Ismail Mekkaoui Alaoui CC BY 4.0
MENA Site Visits
Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Paul StaceyMary Lou Forward
James Glapa-Grossklag
October 2014
United States Central Intelligence Agency. Northern Africa and the Middle East. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/item/2010585096/. (Accessed February 24, 2017.)
OER Workshop
Riyadh
27-Oct-2014
Introduction & importance of OER - Mary Lou Forward
OER ecosystem - James Glapa- Grossklag
Success factors for National OER framework - Paul Stacey
National OER InitiativePresented ByDr. Abullah Al-MegrenGeneral Manager ManagerNational Center for e-Learning and Distance LearningSaudi Arabia
Vision
Establish the National level consortium for OERs, enriching teaching and learning, resulting in empowering the knowledge economy.
OER – Open Educational Resources
Mission • Propose the national level initiative for OER Consortium.• Invite institutions to form the OER Consortium. • Constitute a team for formulating strategies and policies for the management
and sustainable development of the OER consortium.• Develop high quality OERs, meeting the demands of stakeholders, and facilitate
them to produce SPOOCs and MOOCs
Proposed OER Initiative’s EcosystemSu
ppor
tive
Polic
yEd
ucat
or
Dem
and
Qua
lity
Supp
ly
User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs.
Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs.
Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications.
Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights
Communities of Practices
Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content
Development
Quality Assurance
OER RepositoryReviseReuse
RemixRedistribute
As an OER policy quick start we provided:an open policy rationale & open policy text for grant making
These provide model languageand text can be incorporated into grant programs
Embracing eLearning & OER to Transform Education in Saudi Arabia
Abdullah Almegren, NCeL- MoE Saudi Arabia
NCeL RoleMulti dimensional approach in embracing e-Learning.
Our effort is in progress to utilize the set of services and digital content in strengthening our OER movement.
We are committed towards building our knowledge society
How We See the OER Movement...
Our Path to the OER Movement
Dr. Fengchun MiaoChief of the Unit for ICT in Education UNESCO
Workshops & Seminars 2011-2015
Dr. Stephen DownsNational Research Council, Canada
Dr. Mike SmithOER Advocate
Transformation of an initiative to program2016-2017
Proposed OER Initiative’s Ecosystem Now in ActionSu
ppor
tive
Polic
yEd
ucat
or
Dem
and
Qua
lity
Supp
ly
User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs.
Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs.
Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications.
Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights
Communities of Practices
Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content
Development
Quality Assurance
OER RepositoryReviseReuse
RemixRedistribute
Adapted from : http://www.hewlett.org/sites/default/files/The%20Open%20Educational%20Resources%20Ecosystem_1.pdf
As we speak...
Universities have started to share their existing e-ContentAbout 1000 OER Champions are being trained from
PE/HE/LLL across the countryOER Policy is Being DevelopedOur OER Platform is in Beta Testing
Challenges
The Road Ahead...Largest Arabic OER HUB
“To remain human and livable, knowledge societies will have to be societies of shared knowledge.”
– Koichiro Matsuura Former Director-General of UNESCO
National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy
General Points
• Next step in the process…• Collaborative project with Creative Commons.• All three documents are DRAFT. NCeL is reviewing now.• All documents will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license by
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.– so other nations may reuse / revise / remix.
• OER Team and University OER Teams to be created.
National Open Education Strategy
• Saudi Arabia OER Strategy Key Points• Vision / Mission• Foundations, Guidelines and Principles• Open Education Goals• Scope• Implementation• Appendix A: OER Frequently Asked Questions• Appendix B: Ex. of Culture Impacting National Open Edu Strategy
National Open Education Strategy
Vision
• To enable creation, innovative use and sharing of quality Open Educational Resources that will ensure education is accessible for every citizen in the Kingdom, contribute to equitable lifelong learning opportunities, the creation of a knowledge society, and the efficient utilization of government educational funds, public services, infrastructure and resources in education.
National Open Education Strategy
Open Education Goals• Access
– Ensure all Saudi citizens, in every sector of society, have universal, accessible, free, and legal access to effective open education resources and learning opportunities.
• Quality– Saudi teachers and learners have access to, use, create and iteratively improve quality OER.
• Efficiency– Ensure all government funded education resources are openly licensed, and efficient
utilization of other government provided education resources, services and infrastructure.• Sharing
– Support collaboration and engagement of communities of educators and learners around OER to cultivate a culture of openness and sharing in education.
National Open Education Master Plan
• OER Master Plan Framework– Funding– Open Education Goals, Actions, Outcomes and Timeline– Capacity Building– Monitoring and Evaluation– Advocacy and Awareness Raising– Incentives & OER Champions
• National OER Team & University OER Teams• Appendix A: OER Policy Reports• Appendix B: OER Research• Appendix C: Resources to Teach People about Open Education• Appendix D: Definitions and Abbreviations
National Open Education Licensing Policy• Open Education Licensing Policies Explained• Saudi Arabia Copyright Law• Reason to Require Open Licenses on Government Funded Education Resources• IGO Support National-Level Adoption of Open Education Licensing Policies• Use Standard Open Licenses• Open Licensing Respects Copyright and Authors• Open Education Licensing Policies Adopted Globally• Appendix A: Open Policy Resources• Appendix B: Resources for Implementing an Open Education Licensing Policy• Appendix C: Definitions and Abbreviations• Appendix D: Playbook for Implementing Open Licensing Policies• Appendix E: DRAFT Ministry Level Open Education Licensing Policy• Appendix F: DRAFT Grant / Contract Level Open Education Licensing Policy
Come to the Creative Commons Summit!
• summit.creativecommons.org• Toronto, Canada• April 28-30, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan
& Policy
Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey
Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0