- OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a collection of high-quality educational materials from universities made freely available online for anyone to use. OCW is not a distance learning program and does not offer degrees or credits. - The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) is a collaboration between universities to advance open education worldwide by sharing open educational resources, tools, models, and best practices. - The OCWC helps members through an expert community, conferences, technical recommendations, and collaborative tools to ensure continuity as technologies change.

1. Newcomers Breakfast September 23, 2008 Terri Bays — O CWC Program Manager Jenny Gray—OpenLearn Clay Whipkey—OCWC Technical Director Open Sharing, Global Benefits

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3. Context —What is OCW? An Open courseware (OCW) is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. OCW is not a distance-learning initiative: there are no degrees granted, no student/faculty interactions and no transcripts. OCW is a collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses. OCW materials are there for the taking (and for transformation).

4. Context —What is OCW? OCW is not a distance-learning initiative: there are no degrees granted, no student/faculty interactions and no transcripts. But OCW can complement a distance-learning initiative, taking content from and directing learners toward an existing e-learning curriculum. OCW has much to learn from e-learning methodology The Meta-University or “Pathways to Credit”discussion centers around the potential for credit-bearing OCW courses in the future.

5. Context —What is OCW? OCW is a collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses. Open Content Open Educational Resources OCW

6. Context —What is OCW? OCW materials are there for the taking (and for transformation). Reuse: use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found it Rework: alter or transform the work so that it better meets your needs Remix: combine the (verbatim or altered) work with other works to better meet your needs Redistribute: share the verbatim work, the reworked work, or the remixed work with others

7. FREE ≠ OPEN ≠ LIBRE

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9. Collaboration —What is the OCWC? “ Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware” Shared Tools Shared Models Shared Commitment

10. Collaboration —What is the OCWC? Shared Tools: Jenny Gray

11. The techy bit By Jenny Gray Lead Technical Developer OpenLearn, Open University, UK

12. Things to think about How to make stuff (production systems) Getting it out there (delivery systems) Getting people in (discoverability) Knowing who used it (metrics)

13. Questions to ask Do you have something already? Will you have dedicated staff for OCW? Can you extend an open-source system? Can you afford a paid-for system? Will you host it yourself?

14. Production systems What you want it to do Tracking Workflow Rights management Licence choice The big names (CMS, LMS) Plone, Drupal, Educommons XML?

15. Delivery systems The big names (CMS, VLE) Educommons, Moodle, Sakai, Connexions Embedding the CC Licence (RDF) Accessibility XHTML, WAI, WCAG, W3C Media formats GIF, JPG, PNG, FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP3, Real Sharing content (IMS CC)

16. Discoverability Search engine optimisation (SEO) Site map Keyword rich title tags and urls Feeds (RSS, OAI-PMH) OCW Search OER Recommender OERCommons Attract return visitors Metadata Dublin Core (DC)

17. Metrics Log analysis Big names Google Analytics Webalizer, WebTrends, Site Intelligence

18. How the OCWC can help Ask an expert At conferences http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ocwcforum/viewforum.php?f=4 Technical Committee Best practices and standards http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=Technical_Committee Toolkit http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=Software

19. Collaboration —What is the OCWC? Shared Models—Continuity of Experience within an Environment of Change. Collaborative Tools: Clay Whipkey Toolkit and Technical Workgroups

20. Collaboration —What is the OCWC? Shared Commitment Governance Process Board of Directors Standing Committees

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22. Community —What are we doing here? Networking Reflection Moral Support Regional Consortia

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24. Thank You! Visit The OpenCourseWare Consortium portal at http://www.ocwconsortium.org Contact the Consortium at: [email_address]