Open Education Movement

Open Edu Movement
Shaomeng Zhang

What?
Social movement: globalization movement
Political movement: civil rights movement
Cultural movement: Renaissance
Economic movement: flatened world

movement?
A movement is a motion, a change in position.
Wikipedia(2009)

Idealist
“ Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” -Jimmy Wales(2004)

Open Edu Declaration
Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. They are also planting the seeds of a new pedagogy where educators and learners create, shape and evolve knowledge together, deepening their skills and understanding as they go.
This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint. Educators, learners and others who share this belief are gathering together as part of a worldwide effort to make education both more accessible and more effective.
The expanding global collection of open educational resources has created fertile ground for this effort. These resources include openly licensed course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software and other materials that support teaching and learning. They contribute to making education more accessible, especially where money for learning materials is scarce. They also nourish the kind of participatory culture of learning, creating, sharing and cooperation that rapidly changing knowledge societies need.
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Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)

Open Education Institutions

massive open online course (MOOC)

Open?
Free to access
Free to copy/modify/redistribute
Downes(2009)

why now?

Scarcity vs. abundance
limited resources(teacher, paper, distribution, space, tools) non-zero marginal cost VS. near-zero marginal cost
limited information processing/filtering capacity VS. learning networks, distributed learning
limited time/space to learn VS. ubiquitous learning/informal learning

conditions
Abundance of tools and reduced cost of production and distribution
Emergence of creative licenses: Creative Commons
Emergence of open culture

license
By default everything published on the web are copyrighted
Pic: Paul Boutin(2007)

Open culture
An open system
Funding/different models of supporting OER
More surstainable resources...

issues
Usability
UI
content completeness
content-specific usability
Durability
Accessibility
language/culture
technical/economic
Effectiveness
feedback/interactivity
Downes(2009)

who cares?
Monopoly of education is breaking down
content
support services
social life
degrees
Wiley(2009)

the world is open
Content could reach wider community (the world!)
High quality courses is no longer constrained by time/space/resources
More courses would accumulate online over time, providing more choices
Free!

change is coming...

challenges Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

In the end, It’s all personal
Empowered
Emotional
Personalized
Unconstrained
Alan Levine(2009)

resources
“ Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities.” http://cnx.org /
“ Curriki - WebHome.” http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
“ Directory of open access journals.” http://www.doaj.org /
“ Internet Archive.” http://www.archive.org/index.php
“ Intute - Home.” http://intute.ac.uk /
“ Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses.” http://oyc.yale.edu /
“ Welcome | Flat World Knowledge.” http://www.flatworldknowledge.com /
“ Wikiversity.” http://www.wikiversity.org /
“ Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009.” http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=189
“ IPT 692R (Wiley).” http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/

reference
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, 2007. Available from: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org / [Retrieved Nov. 2009]
Downes, Stephen, 2009. Open Education: Projects and Potential, Available from: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/speaking-in-lolcats-what-literacy-means-in-teh-digital-era [Retrieved Nov. 2009]
Alan Levine, 2009. Amazing Stories of Openness Available from: http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09/ [Retrieved Nov. 2009]
Paul Boutin , Picture available from: http://valleywag.gawker.com/334726/creative-commons-propaganda--the-1+slide-version [Retrieved Nov. 2009]

Open Education Movement

by Shaomeng Zhang on Nov 30, 2009

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