MIT in Every Home - Leveraged Resources and Opencourseware

1. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 1 HMID 6303: Current Trends and Issues in Instructional Technology

2. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 2 A Collaborative Study on the Trends and Issues in Instructional Technology Authored By Prof. Dr. Curtis J. Bonk

3. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 3 Opener # 4 Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare Slides Presented by: Imran Chen Unless specified, all contents in the following slides are quoted, paraphrased, and synthesized from “The World is Open”. The slide template is used with permission from http://www.articulate.com

4. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 4 Do you know … free, searchable, open access resources and course contents from experts of world’s top universities…

5. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 5 ….are available in your own home, library and office! Are you ready for the Open Courseware (OCW) movement?

7. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 7 1. The OCW Revolution

8. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 8 Placing of free, searchable and open access university resources and course contents on the Internet What is Open Courseware (OCW)? W.W.W.

9. Before OCW… Universities compete to divide and sell pieces of courses through e-learning platform 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 9

10. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 10 Prof. Dick Yue, the key designer of MIT OCW, and his committee were not convinced the profit-side of e-learning would make economic sense

11. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 11 Instead, MIT found a new game plan by offering all its course contents for free in the Internet MIT led the way to a free and open side of education called OCW

12. Birth of OCW Excerpt “This is something bigger than MIT. …..we very much hope that OpenCourseWare will draw other universities to do the same. …. we have a world wide web of knowledge that raises the quality of learning – and ultimately, the quality of life – around the globe.” (para 17) 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 12 Announcement by MIT President Mr. Charles M. Vest on April 4, 2001, ..… Photo retrieved Feb 27, 2010 from http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N16/16ocw.16n.html Retrieved Feb 27, 2010 from http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/ocw.html

14. The Pakistani OCW Movement Pakistani youth learning MIT course contents Affordable, excellent supplements Materials in CD-ROM, printed and shared Use OCW to explore new courses Contents translated into different languages More organizations & universities are involved in OCW 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 15

15. OOPShttp://www.myoops.org/twocw/ Taiwan’s OpensourceOpencourseware Prototype System Mr. Lucifer Chu 2,200 volunteer translators in 22 countries Translate text & media files to Chinese 3rd Organization to sign translation agreement with MIT Localizing the MIT OCW web site 1,300 adopted courses & 800 completed By 2009, expected visitors – over 2.2 m 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 16

16. OOPShttp://www.myoops.org/twocw/ Translated courses and shared OER from Taiwan on ‘how to survive a catastrophe’ for the 2008 Sichuan, China, earthquake survivors Translation process works like Wikipedia Global community of practice and spirit Different from CORE (http://www.core.org.cn/en/ ) which translates Chinese to English for the world 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 17

17. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 18 3. OCW Offspring

18. Some OCW’s Offspring View the member page in the OCW Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-members.html) which consists of institutions, associated consortiums, affiliates and corporation members offering OCW Open Yale Courses (not a member to the Consortium) (http://oyc.yale.edu/ ) are available in streaming video or audio 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 19

19. Some OCW’s Offspring National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), an joint OCW project by IIT and IIS, shared video engineering courses in YouTube (http://youtube.com/iit ) 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 20

20. 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 21 4. OCW and the Right to Education

21. OCW – Current Development Though not credentialed or graded, OCW provides Level One Knowledge – basic facts and a base of learning OCW extended to K-12 education Availability of Open-access journals, open courses and open books The rise of OCW Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ ), OER Commons (http://www.oercommons.org/ ) , & Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org/) to organize and promote open learning and knowledge 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 22

22. OCW – Current Development Emergence of compilations of top OCW for self-learners: - Online Education Database (http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/ ) - 100 free padcasts from the best colleges in the world - Open Culture (http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html ) - 250 free online courses from top universities Abolishment of exclusive control over knowledge rights The movement invites more people into the learning community with free and open access 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 23

23. OCW – Current Development Emergence of community of open study groups for short online courses in Jan 2009 - Peer-to-Peer University (http://p2pu.org/ ) which promotes ‘Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything’ 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 24

24. OCW – Predictions OCW contents become more comprehensive, authentic and interactive Contents will find accreditation Self-designing of repackaged curriculum OCW Consortium approved certificates or degrees 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 25

25. OCW – Predictions The OCW /OER revolution and technology have made universal, free and open access to knowledge possible Governmental and organizational support, indexing and marketing of courses 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 26

26. OCW – The Vision The revolution will fulfill the UN’s provision: ‘Everyone has a right to education. Education should be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stage…..’ (Article 26 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Full text of Article 26 available on http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a26 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 27

27. Last but not least….. Thank you very much To Professor Curtis J. Bonk For sharing THE World is Open With us and the world 2/27/2010 HMID 6303 - OUM 28