at JOCW conference 2015

1. 日本におけるOpen Educationの現状
Current Status of Open Education in Japan
重田勝介
Katsusuke Shigeta
北海道大学
Hokkaido University

2. 3 players (partly) conducts Open Education
Institutions
of Higher Ed.
Social
Entrepre-
neurship
Ed-tech
Companies

3. 1) Institutions of Higher Education
Institutions
of Higher
Ed.
• OpenCourseWare(2005-)
– JOCW (Regional Consortium)
• OER development and utilization
– By some universities
• e.g. Hokkaido consortium
• MOOC
– With providers or consortiums
• 1 Coursera / 1 FutureLearn / 5 edX
– JMOOC: Regional efforts

4. Hokkaido University Consortium
• Center for Open Education at Hokkaido U.
• Share liberal arts education through
videoconferencing and OER
– Share OER via Open edX based platform
– Open MOOC with translation on OECx
• International Collaboration
– Reuse OER from CMU OLI (translation and modification)
– Cooperation for learning analytics
• Joint industry-university research with Fujitsu
– Personalized learning for student success

5. JMOOC: Initiative to accelerate collaboration
between universities and industry
• Japan Massive Open Online Course
• MOOC providers under JMOOC
• Courses by universities, faculty and education
companies ( or MBA school etc.)
• Launched Oct 2013, open over 30 courses
• Over 150 thousands enrollments

6. Comparison of MOOC activities between
Japan and other regions
Services Players Business model
U.S.
Coursera, Udacity
Udemy, edX
For-profit or
Non-profit
organization
VC or
Membership fee
for organization
EU
Asia
FutureLearn
FUN
学堂在线 Edraak
TaiwanMOOC
Companies or
Government-driven
organization
Governmental
funding or
Foundation
support
Japan
JMOOC
(gacco, OUJ MOOC,
OpenLearning)
Universities and
Companies
cooperated with
general incorporated
association(JMOOC)
Membership fee
for association

7. Taiwan MOOC
• Over 100 courses
• Used for campus education
• Governmental funding by course development

8. Japan Univ. activities for MOOC
• Few university participate MOOC
– Recognition raises recently
• Lack of resources and support
– Funding
– Staffs for course development and management
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制作・提供
予定・計画
利用
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5
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2
1 寄付金
2 学内資金
3 政府からの競争
的資金
4 その他の外部資
金
5 不明
Yes
Planning
Using
No
Not sure
Donation
University
Government
Other funding
Other

9. 2) Ed-tech companies
Ed-tech
Companies
• MOOC providers
– For-profit companies
• Branch or project of existing
companies
– Aim to leverage online learning for
existing education system
• Pursuing business model for
sustainability (notes: my suspicion)
– Hosting service for universities
– Course development with companies

10. Gacco
One of JMOOC course provider
• Operated
by NTT
docomo
• Open edX
based
platform
• Part of
courses
include
offline
sessions

11. Jyuken-sapuri
(Supplements for examination)
• Operated by human resource company
• Learning materials for entrance examination
of universities for
high school students
• Pay 8 dollars per
month
• Pursue comprehensive
agreement with
schools
https://jyukensapuri.jp

12. 3) Social Entrepreneurship
Social
Entrepre-
neurship
• Promote social change
– By bold young challengers
• OER translation and dissemination
– E.g. Asuka Academy
• Pursuing business model for
sustainability (notes: my suspicion)
– Pursue public support including
government

13. Manavee
Voluntary activities by university students
• Learning materials for entrance examination of
universities to be used by high school students
• Operated by univ. students group activities
• Potential for sustainability

14. eBoard
• Learning materials for schools
• Offer knowledge map for learners
• Supported by VC,
company and
local government

15. Potential and challenges
• Continuous MOOC movement
• Consortium-based Collaboration
• Raise Ed-tech companies and entrepreneurs
• No governmental support
• Fragmented activities
• Beneficiary-to-pay principle
Institutions of
Higher Ed.
Social
Entrepre-
neurship
Ed-tech
Companies