OCWC Regional Meeting, Rice University, February 6, 2009
Global Concept, Local Practices: State of the
Research on OpenCourseWare in Chinese
Stian Håklev, University of Toronto
shaklev@gmail.com
http://reganmian.net/blog
Creative Commons BY 3.0
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Outline
MIT OCW in China
China Quality
OpenCourseWare
The Research
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Acknowledgment
Wang Wenjun ( )
Educational researcher at Northwest
Normal University
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Chinese context Massification of higher education (number
of students in higher education from
850,000 in 1978 to 13 million in 2002)
Increased diversification of higher
education
Good internet infrastructure
Strong position of Chinese language
Strong background in distance education
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Bringing the idea to China
MIT and IETF organized OCW conference
with Jiaotong University in Beijing.
As a result, 12 universities wrote the
government to petition for a program of
OpenCourseWare in China.
As a result: CORE and CQOCW
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MIT OCW into
Chinese
China Open Resources for Education
(CORE) translating MIT materials to
Chinese. 245 courses by the end of
2007.
(OOPS also does this in Taiwan)
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CORE main
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Ex of Chin OCW
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Motivation
Internationalization
Modernization
Increase quality of teaching
Borrow foreign teaching
theories, methods and content
Foreign classes have more
progressive teaching, more
stimulating, research based,
questioning - we want to
adopt that
Increase collaboration
between our institutions and
foreign institutions
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Issues and
questions
Hundreds of MIT courses used in Chinese
universities?
Examples? What material is used,
how is it used, why is it used, what are the
outcomes?
More than 150 comparative book-length
studies published comparing MIT
curriculum with Chinese curriculum.
Availability? Findings?
“Before, we received foreign learning material, and
we could only find out what they were teaching.
Now, with OCW, we can also see how they are
teaching, and get an understanding of the entire
process of teaching, and this is very valuable to our
educational research.”
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Chinese Quality
OpenCourseWare
( )
Centrally funded and promoted
by Chinese Ministry of Education
Three levels - national, provincial/
city, university
First round from 2003-2007,
second round just started
More than thousand national
level courses, as many as 10,000
courses in total.
A large amount of research
published.
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MOE JPKC
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Quality Project
( )
CQOCW is a key part of the Quality Project,
but it’s not the only part:
The program targets 1000 universities with 10
million FT students, and will cost approximately
USD $365 million.
Targets:
Help 3000 professors and administrators to
develop peer training exchanges
Select 1000 national-level teaching teams
Give awards to 500 top national teachers
Develop
500 experimental teaching centers
500 individual talent development and
creativity areas
500 high quality bilingual classes
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zhiliang gongcheng
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Purpose of CQOCW
Expanding access to higher education
never mentioned in the literature.
The purpose is to increase the quality of
undergraduate courses, with new
pedagogics, new technology and
updated, cutting-edge content.
Course teams - senior
subject experts, junior faculty
and web designers
University-level awards for
good courses
Effects
on local team
trickle down effect on local university
on peers
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Lanzhou City University School gave certain amount of funding
case study Clear philosophy:
Construction of CQOCW will improve quality of
Have already been evaluating best courses all courses
internally since 2003. Developed system of Not just about putting old courses online, but
indicators of course quality rethink content, teaching methodology, etc.
Issue announcement, meeting of heads of Internal committee to evaluate courses, then
departments invited 20 external experts - used online
material, also sat in on classes
Teaching committee to identify basic and
advanced courses they could apply for In the end, 11 courses were selected for
provincial CQOCW
Brought teachers together with computer
department ( , )
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meeting jpkc
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Honor JPKC diploma
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so what does that look
like look like?
So what does it
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CORE JPKC Chinese
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Jingpinke main
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Jingpinke course
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course 3 from p
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course 1 p1
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course 1 p2
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course 1 p3
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course 1 p4
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course 1 p5
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course 4 intro
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course 2 p2
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course 5 extensive
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course 5 p2
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JPKC textbook
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course 5 discforum
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course 5 discforum2
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CORE translating
CQOCW to English
Application form to translate JPKC to English
You need to do it yourself or supervise someone who can.
It is peer reviewed by a different institution.
CORE subsidizes about $1,250 for the work..
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CORE english
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CORE law
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Research
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Journals
Large number of educational
journals, especially within
distance education and online
learning - even one specialized
on open education.
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CAJ 1
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CAJ 2
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CAJ numbers big
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Approaches
Classification of different ways of collaborating
with MIT.
Comparison 14 CQOCWs and 22 MIT OCWs in
biology. Results: more classroom activity in MIT.
MIT materials tied better together.
Analysis of all CQOCW courses as
representatives of university courses in China to
see how many embed practical components.
Results: in 2007 new criteria around practical
components were introduced, which increased
practical components a lot
Beijing City CQOCW evaluation with external
evaluators, through questionnaires, site visits and
case studies. Results: educators use it to prepare
for class, students: 40% related to current studies,
but also high school prepare for/choose
university, and interest.
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Evaluation of
new courses
A study of the evaluation criteria over the conditions for practical components
five years. online education environment
instructional design
5 primary and 15 secondary indicators. instructional approach
Weighted, totalling 100 points: instructional practice
instructional outcomes - evaluation by
responsible person and main lecturer peers, by university supervisor, by students,
the composition and quality of teaching
evaluation of recorded materials
team
educational reform and educational
research Added more focus on instructional design,
the course content pedagogy, use of technology, impact and
the organization and planning of the course sharing. and building local guidance teams
content
the practical components
teaching material and other resources
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student eval
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jpkc meeting
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Criticisms
Name doesn’t
reflect content
Top professors
won’t share
content
Courses chosen based
on professors, not
quality
Too much spent on
design - “going through
the motions”
Needs to be long-term and
sustainable
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Issues and
questions
No common technical platform
Doesn’t use Creative Commons or other
open license
Not much known about reuse and adaptation
Many servers unavailable (as many as half, according
to one report)
How is it used by students?
What are the plans going forward?
Does it really have an impact of teaching? On who?
On the initial creator? On the creator’s campus?
On peers?
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Thank you
Please contact me for information/questions.
This is an ongoing project.
shaklev@gmail.com
http://reganmian.net/blog
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Image credits
• Flickr: Brian Jeffery Beggerly (Great Wall), Arthur Tsao
(picture; outline), MK Media Productions (Lord of the Rings
Tower in Shanghai), shonk (Studying...), (Growing
China), Andreanna (Question Mark- Day 35/365), aussiegal
(Exclamation Mark), kevindooley (Reflections), alexandralee
(back when i studied chinese), tomt6788 (Abstract Colorful
Universe Wallpaper - TTdesign), woodleywonderworks
(cosmic soap bubbles (God takes a bath)), Wonderlane (The
Road to Perdition), jlcwalker (Binoculars - a working
collection) and katinalynn (nuclear slide)!
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