The document summarizes lessons learned from Wikiwijs, a Dutch program from 2009-2013 that aimed to promote open educational resources (OER) in education. Some key lessons included: 1) Creating high quality OER is complex and requires careful tool design and teacher training; 2) Working from complete courses and textbooks is important, not just standalone content; and 3) Involving all stakeholders and implementing supportive policies is needed to encourage OER adoption by teachers and schools. Overall the program showed that quality, communities, and complete resources are important for successful OER implementation.

1. Wikiwijs: from top down to bottom up
The role of quality, teacher-communities and complete courses
Darco Jansen
LangOER, 26 September

2. CPL http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/the-changing-pedagogical-landscape-pbNC0415435/

3. WHAT IS
WIKIWIJS?

4. What is Wikiwijs
• Program 2009-2013 - Initiated by Dutch Ministry
• Realized by Kennisnet & OUNL - Total budget €8M
Main Goals
• Mainstreaming use of OER in education
• Thereby:
• Enhance quality,
• Improve efficiency and
• Contribute to accessibility of education
•Threefold government responsibility
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5. Implementation Wikiwijs
• Platform
• Create – Share – Find
• Professionalization of teachers
• Open and closed learning materials
• Community-based
• More general: enhance awareness for OER
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6. State of affairs ultimo 2013
•~10,000 active user profiles
•mainly primary & secondary education
•> 1M downloads & referrals in 2013
•11,000 lessons and courses
•70,000 referrals to lessons and courses
•~635,000 OER available
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7. State of affairs feb-2016
•primary & secondary & higher education
•~1.293.000 OER objects available
•10,000 lessons and courses in Wikiwijs
•169,000 referrals to lessons and courses
• ~3500 HBO/WO
• ~8600 in Wikiwijs repository
• ~7500 “Wikiwijsarrangementen”
•~ 7570 with a quality mark (15 different quality marks)
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8. 8
HBO/WO ‘Keurmerk’
Arrangement
308.593 7571
4361
27
60
697179
1.292.775 Wikiwijs repository
5679
10.040
+

9. LESSONS
LEARNED

10. 10
Quality is important
Creating OER is a
collective activity
Existing OER
communities
do not join
voluntarily in Wikiwijs
Sharing OER has to
be encouraged and
should be made easy
Creating OER is a
complex task
One interface does
not fit all
Governmental
policies &
regulations are
needed

11. Lessons Learned
• Underestimating the complexity of creating and remixing OER will
cause demotivation of teachers to create and remix OER.
• Needed: carefully designed easy to use remix tools are key.
• Needed: training for acquiring the competences to create and remix
OER technically and didactically
•Working from complete open courses and open complete books
- Not only buidling content elements to complete courses
- But working from complete courses/ open books as well !!
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12. Lessons Learned
• Do not underestimate the role of quality of OER
• Do not assume that all OER have acceptable quality, so create some
form of quality control
• Quality of the elements VERSUS complete of the whole courses /
books
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13. Lessons Learned
• All stakeholders should be
involved.
• More prescriptive policies and
regulations are also needed to
avoid the current situation where
no sense of urgency is felt by both
management and teachers to
adopt an OER policy
Darco Jansen

14. Some resources discussion the history of open education are
• Peters and Deimann (2013) On the role of openness in education: A historical reconstruction
• Open Education Handbook (2014)
• M. Weller (2014) The Battle for Open

15. Open: means, not an aim!
Schuwer, R. & Wild, U. (2015). Beyond the pioneering phase: moving towards the adoption of open education. In: Baars, M.
et al (eds). Trend report open and online education 2015. SURF, Utrecht. 54-62
CC-By Robert Schuwer

16. Aim of open education:
• an approach to education that seeks to remove all unnecessary
barriers to learning, while aiming to provide students with a
reasonable chance of success in an education and training system
centred on their specific needs and located in multiple arenas of
learning.
Darco Jansen

17. Global strategies on
MOOCs:
Using MOOCs for
Opening up Education

18. Any questions?

19. Thank you!!!
Darco.Jansen@eadtu.eu
Coordinator
Coordinator