The document summarizes the closing session of the Third International Seminar on Open Educational Resources hosted by the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning. The seminar discussed the institutional challenges of open educational resources and featured case studies from the Open University UK and MIT OpenCourseWare. Key recommendations included informing stakeholders about open educational resources, adhering to standards, and overcoming remaining challenges to fully realize the potential of open resources for lifelong learning.

1. UOC UNESCO Chair in e-learning Third International Seminar Open Educational Resources: Institutional Challenges Closing session

2. Motivations (I) UOC’s mission: to provide people with training throughout their lives, overcoming barriers imposed by time and space O means open

3. Motivations (II) UOC’s UNESCO Chair in e-learning: to foster an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities on the positive effect that the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) represents for universities, and promote equal opportunities in accessing ICTs

4. UOC UNESCO Chair Activities: Instruction Diffusion: roundtables / seminars Cooperation: networks Open Educational Resources emerge from the new needs of lifelong learning scenarios

5. Seminar structure Two study cases: Open University UK OpenLearn (N. Sclater) MIT OpenCourseWare (S. Miyagawa) Six conferences: Institutional challenges (D. Wiley) Educational aspects (C.S. Burrus) Technological aspects (M. Sicilia) Economic aspects (P. Baumgartner) Legal aspects (R. Xalabarder) OER and virtual universities (S. D’Antoni)

6. OLCOS project Open Learning Content Observatory Services EU funded, 2006-2007 Main goal: building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe Main outcomes: Roadmap Tutorials OER diffusion and promotion More information available at olcos.org

7. We’ve been discussing… It’s about learning Learning is not just content But content is still behind: Activities Tutoring Assessment

8. Content is not a ‘closed’ issue Granularity: Assets Units Modules Lessons Courses Granularity determines: Pedagogical model Metadata for content description

9. Learning is changing Competency based Lifelong learning scenarios E-learning environments Personalization issues Content becomes “secondary”

10. Open Educational Resources Too many terms: content, educational resources, learning objects, … Open adds a new level of confusion: Free? Accessible? Usable? Modifiable? Can they be sold?

11. Challenges Those coming from LO’s plus: Quality issues Cultural issues Technological infrastructures Sustainability Licensing

12. Recommendations (I) Inform (and convince): Authors Publishers Instructional designers Teachers Users Top-down and bottom-up approaches Remove producer-consumer barriers

13. Recommendations (II) Stick to standards: IEEE LOM MPEG-7 / MPEG-21 IMS LD OpenCyC BPEL Creative Commons … and, unfortunately, so many others

14. So… what? We have the contents We have the pedagogical models We have the standards We have the technologies We have the licenses We have the will What else do we need?

15. Closing session We must give attribution to: Speakers OLCOS partners Audience All the used resources will be available through the post-seminar web site: Presentations Selected papers Video recordings Transcriptions

16. See you soon! Thank you for coming and participating in such a rich seminar! Post-seminar site available at www.uoc.edu/catedra/unesco/seminario/english