This document summarizes a best paper award about using open educational resources (OER) through social networking sites and multimedia e-textbooks to promote learner autonomy. It discusses challenges to adopting OER in higher education like technical issues, economic costs, and legal/copyright concerns. It then introduces CHiLO, a proposed architecture that uses a knowledge eco-cycle approach to generate, share and use OER through a community platform and digital textbooks. The document concludes by describing a pilot study conducted by the Open University of Japan to distribute e-textbooks on computers and Japanese language through online bookstores and Facebook, finding it facilitated widespread sharing and distribution of open content.

1. Best Paper Award
Learner Autonomy through Adoption of OER
using SNS
and Multi-media E-textbooks
NPO CCC-TIES Masumi Hori
28th Annual Conference
of the Asian Association of Open Universities

2. Index
1. The Challenges of OER for Higher
Education Institutions（ＨEIs)
2. CHiLO’s Architecture
3. Pilot study
4. Conclusion

3. Challenges of OER for HEIs
Technical
– Lack of broadband and Interoperability
the diffusion of broadband and development LTI and cliper
Economic
– Difficulties in covering cost
Social
– Unwillingness to share intellectual property
– Assuring quality in open content
Legal
The assessment and certificates such as MOOC
– Academics regarding copyright issues
the popularization of Creative Commons or GPL.
From paper commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning for OER Workshop
for Heads of Commonwealth Universities, 28 April 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
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4. From OER to the Knowledge eco-cycle
CHiLO Creative Higher Education Learning Objects
Learners
Higher Education for Everyone
Knowledg
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eco-cycle
Society
Transfer
K
Knowledge
Providers
Use
K
Generate
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5. Technology Components
CHiLO Book
CHiLO badge
Assessment & Budges
Authentication
SNS
LMS Forum
CHiLO Community
CHiLOs Analytics
CHiLO Lecture
one-minute nano lecture video clips
CHiLO Repository
LOM
Weko
Link center
Semantic Web
Google analytics
Facebook insight
Gakunin/OAuth
Read offline
EPUB3
Read easily online
WEB
Repository
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6. The OUJ MOOC
The Open University Japan MOOC
【How to provide】
• Download from CHiLO site.
• Online publishing on
Google and iBooks Store
From April 2014
How Computers work in Japanese/All 11 Volumes
Prof Yoichi Okabe(President of the OUJ)
NIHONGO STARTER A1 in English/All 10 Volumes
Prof. Tsuneo Yamada (the OUJ) & the Japan
Foundation

7. Track Record of Online Bookstore
How Computers work
From April to October, 2014
The 50 top free-of-charge eBooks
The total download number of all 11books
– Google play : 23,406 copies
– iBooks store： 14,029 copies
Google Play in Japan

8. Nihongo Starter A1 Facebook Group
1,491 Participants
from 94 countries

9. Results of the Experiment
• Wide variety of sharing
– Facilitate the promotion of content
distribution
– Willing to publish a (e-)book.
– The expansion and the distribution of OER
• Likelihood of resolution
– The production cost.
– The production effort .

10. Under Development
The reading apps
Automated CHiLO Book producer

11. Thank you