The Many Good Reasons for Open Educational Resources

The Many Good Reasons for Open Educational Resources: Why Universities should adopt Open Policies
Frederik Truyen, OER-HE stakeholder workshop, March 2011

Open Education
...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

OCW
"The Open Courseware concept is based on the philosophical view of knowledge as a collective social product and so it is also desirable to make it a social property."
V. S. Prasad, Vice-Chancellor - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, India

OER Initiatives
open courseware and content;
open software tools (e.g. learning management systems);
open material for e-learning capacity building of faculty staff;
repositories of learning objects; and
free educationalcourses.
Hylén, J. (2005). Open educational resources: Opportunities and challenges. OECD-CERI. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/49/35733548.doc
see also: Downes, Stephen (2007). "Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources" in: Interdisciplinary Journal of Knwoledge and Learning Objects, Vol. 3, p. 29-44.

OER definition
"OER are teaching, learning, and researchresourcesthat reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

OER definition OECD
"digitisedmaterials offered freely and openly for educators, students, and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research. OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use, and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licences."
OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and UNESCO

Criticism
Beware of paternalistic agenda
Contents need to be interculturally adjusted
Economic model unclear
Static vision on knowledge and learning contents
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Knowledge economy
Learning economy
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Creative economy
Charles Landry, John Howkins, Richard Florida
Open knowledge economy
Yochai Benkler
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.

Reframing Resources
Open EducationalResources go beyond Learning materialsand involve the stakeholder communitiesand key actors involved in the relevant knowledge domains
The ultimate Open EducationalResource is part of the socialnetworkthat warrants the supply chain, validates the knowledge claims, and makes it sustainableand fostersitsgrowth

Course
as a defining feature
for the structure and purpose of OER, in providing:
a summary of a field
structure and an outline
references and links
teaching & learning activities
intensity, depth
assessment
authority

Users
Products
Experts
Exploitation
Industry
Local Stakeholders
and
actors
Professionals
Publishers
Stakeholders
OER
Teaching Community
Journals
Books
ScientificCommunity
Organisations
Blogs & wiki's
Conferences
Exercises
Course notes
Archives
Assessment
Libraries

Good reasons for OER
Widening Participation & LifeLong Learning
Internationalization
Profiling & Mainstreaming
Reaching out to stakeholders
Quality control / Cost control
Learning in the Digital Age
Interdisciplinary research

Widening Participation
LifeLong Learning
Accessibility
Reaching out to professional communities

Internationalization
Enhanced visibility and findability
Possibility to engage students at a distance
International collaboration and sharing of workload

Profiling
For the institution
For the individual teacher

Mainstreaming
In a regional context
feeding the web

Stakeholder communities
Regional expertise networks and knowledge anchor points
Fostering participation

Quality Control
Public scrutiny
Originality
Benchmarking

Cost control
Re-use economics
Filling the gaps
Reducing authoring cost

Learning in the Digital Age
Personal Learning Environment
Flexible learning
Remediation of knowledge gaps
Community translations

Interdisciplinary Research
Increased exposure of insights to other domains
Sharing of concepts and methods
Tracking trends

The role of the university
A Regional duty with an international scope
Relevant, well-structured reference materials for the broader community
Embedded in an international framework

Partners OER-HE

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