http://sched.co/AF02 The world’s nations have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG4 is about “Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” This session will explore how and why the global open education community can work with their national governments to mainstream Open Educational Resources (OER) in support of achieving SDG4.

1. SDG4 + OER:
Working Together to Mainstream
Open Education
Dr. Cable Green
Director of Open Education
Creative Commons
cable@creativecommons.org
@cgreen

2. Mainstream OER in support of achieving
SDG4 (& other SDGs)

4. Why connect OER
to SDGs?

5. OER can be the education resources to
teach the public about SDGs.
Connects education to solving SDGs:
Forms a new, positive connection
between governments and their
public education systems.

6. Global challenges / SDGs are constantly
changing.
OER can be updated in real time and are
continuously updated by working on SDGs.
OER can be local / contextual – more effective.

7. In US higher education alone, David Wiley*
estimates students spend 40 million hours
on “disposable assignments” annually.
What are the numbers in other nations?
This time / effort could be re-tasked to build,
revise, remix, and curate OER to work on /
solve SDGs.
* http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3941

8. Open practices: Shift to students and
teachers / faculty building, revising and
creating community around OER.
Students can contribute to improving
curriculum, work on complex and
authentic problems (e.g., SDGs), and
have their work be used in their fields.

9. Students want their work to make a difference in the
world.
Since this work is more meaningful and the stakes
are higher (e.g., climate action, zero hunger,
gender equality, no poverty), students are
motivated to work smarter, learn more deeply,
have an opportunity to contribute to society – by
producing, revising, and sharing OER about SDGs
- while they earn their degree.

10. Is this a good idea?
How can we create OER degree programs about
SDGs?
How would we work with Universities to adopt this
idea? Do we need to start a new University?
What strategies might we use to advance this idea?

11. SDG4 + OER:
Working Together to Mainstream
Open Education
Dr. Cable Green
Director of Open Education
Creative Commons
cable@creativecommons.org
@cgreen