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Openness at the OU

by Martin Weller on Nov 29, 2010

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A presentation I gave at the final dissemination event of the Sidecap project in Fiji

A presentation I gave at the final dissemination event of the Sidecap project in Fiji

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I work at the Open University in the UK, and it’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. When it was founded in 1969 this meant reaching out to people who were excluded from traditional higher ed, using methods such as TV and print, and local tutorials.
We really got lucky with our name! We could have gone for something like ‘the university of the airwaves’ (I think there is a chinese distance ed university with that name) and that would have dated. In contrast the term open seems to have become more significant in education as time has gone on. If I were starting a new unversity now, and I wanted to be radical and cutting edge, then I could think of no better name than the Open University
While those original aims are still appropriate ‘open’ has a whole host of other meanings in education now. The OU is trying to embrace many of these changing definitions, but here are some.
I’ll talk a bit about openlearn – this was funded by the Hewlett Foundation and our aim was to give away course material. Whereas with MIT a lot of the content they give away doesn’t make much sense outside of the lectures, oru course material is designed to be studied by an individual at a distance, so it was a riskier proposition.
21% is rest of the wolrd – so it’s not just UK and US
But even then we realised open education isn’t just about content, it’s about a whole different approach to education
Can show all these
Painting the dinosaur – you don’t really change what you do, and it’s just a side project, and you carry on as before

Openness at the OU — Presentation Transcript

Openness at the OU
Martin Weller
By mag3737 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/
Who am I?
Professor of Educational Technology
Blog: Edtechie.net
Twitter: mweller
The OU
The Open University is open to people, places, methods and ideas.
We got lucky!
By psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3717444865/
If you were starting an OU now…
Open source
Open educational resources
Open teaching/courses
Open research
Open technology
What OERs used to look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFd4tCWtvk
Canada
8m visitors since launch
Openness isn’t just content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/
An ecosystem of openness
Not just a project
Photo – Patrick McAndrew
Big OER & Little OER
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marinacast/2235316998/
Big & Little OER
Ways of encouraging little OER
http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_a_lea/3257134149/
Allow space to experiment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/huladancer22/530743543/
Recognise and reward digital outputs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andresrueda/3274955487/
Staff development
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mezzoblue/3696233049/
Openness is a state of mind…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/2837128711/