Open Educational Resources: History and Future Potential
1. Open Educational Resources:
History and Future Potential
by Stian Håklev
University of Manitoba, Open Access Week 2013
Creative Commons BY 3.0
CC BY NC ND Smithsonian American Art Museum
11. Dimensions
gratis
/
libre
(or
free
as
in
speech,
free
as
in
beer)
accidental
/
intentional
defined-‐author
/
peer-‐authored
purpose:
direct
use,
reuse,
transparency
37. How
can
we
analyze
the
spread
of
a
norm?
Finnemore
&
Sikkink:
the
life-‐cycle
of
norms
Women’s
suffrage,
land-‐mine
ban
Realist
vs.
constructivist
view
of
international
system
Norm
entrepreneurs
Organizational
platform
Forming
vocabulary,
change
in
identity
and
motivation
Tipping
point:
1/3
of
all
participants
(states)?
Institutionalization
39. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Connecting with Your University’s Goals
—Recruitment
• A 2005 Poll showed that 50% of incoming MIT
students were aware of MIT OCW.
• 35% of those students based their choice of MIT at
least in part on their experience of MIT OCW
• By mid-October of their first year, 95% of
those students had visited the OCW site.
OCW Consortium Toolkit http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=33&Itemid=
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40. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Connecting with Your University’s Goals
—Recruitment
• Builds a prior academic relationship with
bright, motivated students, their families,
their teachers and their advisors
• Showcases key departments, faculty and
courses
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41. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Connecting with Your University’s Goals
—Reputation
An OCW site can showcase areas of excellence in
our university, such as name specific programs.
Heightened awareness of these programs not only
will attract talented students and faculty to our
school but also will increase the visibility of our
faculty within their disciplines.
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42. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Connecting with Your University’s Goals
—Retention
An OCW site provides students with the potential for
self-paced review of study materials before, during
and after taking a course. Such review greatly
increases a student’s chances of success in both
that course and subsequent courses which build
upon its teachings.
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43. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Connecting with Your University’s Goals
—Advising
The ability to view OCW materials prior to
enrollment allows students to make more informed
choices about which courses and majors are right
for them.
Likewise, advisors will be able to base their
recommendations on concrete information about
courses, their requirements and their benefits.
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44. How
can
we
analyze
the
spread
of
a
policy
innovation?
David
Phillips:
policy
attraction
more
likely
to
borrow
in
time
of
upheaval,
change
or
great
crisis
Mintrom
&
Vergari:
policy
networks
investigating
policy
on
school
choice
in
US
states
-‐
what
causes
similarity?
closeness
of
states,
or
similar
attributes?
no,
attending
the
same
conferences!
The
role
of
MIT,
and
MIT’s
faculty,
international
conferences,
organizations
(OCW
Consortium,
CCLearn/CC,
UNESCO
IIEP)
45. Purposes of OER
If we don’t know what the purpose of an
OER is, we won’t know what to consider
when designing, we can’t begin to evaluate
the quality, or measure the success
56. Features
of
the
Chinese
OER
project
selective
and
competitive
three
levels
(campus,
province,
national)
teaching
teams
both
content
and
method
financial
support,
requirement
to
make
course
available
online
for
five
years
three
kinds:
undergraduate,
vocational,
and
online
courses
57. Purposes
induce
full
professors
to
teach
undergraduate
courses
encourage
professors
to
use
more
technology
in
their
teaching
encourage
formation
of
teaching
teams,
rethinking
of
course
material
and
teaching
methods
courses
function
as
“models”
for
other
professors
(course
material
used
directly
by
students?)
92. Two (+1) historic trends in
technology and education
• intelligent/adaptive tutor systems
(behaviouralist?)
• systems supporting collaborative work
(constructivist?)
• content and communications