Presentation about the opportunities for the use Open & Online Education for Capacity Building, and the need for a new (Open) model to do so.
Presented at the NUFFIC/PIE seminar on november 25th, 2014.
Getting started with Open Education: Open & Online Education for Capacity Building
1. Getting Started with Open Education
Open & Online Education for Capacity Building
Gijs Houwen
25NOV2014
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Please attribute TU Delft Extension School
2. Overview
• Open Education @ TU Delft
• A Global Movement
• Getting Started with Open Education
• Towards an Open Model
13. Global Demand
• Demand estimates vary:
• HE students tripled in 2025
• Quadrupled in 2030
• We would need 4 new TU Delft sized universities,
every week
14. Global Demand
• Meaning:
• We can not teach like we did before
• Role of University changes
From: ‘Knowledge monopoly’,
To: Facilitating and accrediting institution
• We need to harness the power of ICT
• We need to harness the power of Open
15. The need for a new Model
"In the future,
the opposite of open isn't closed,
the opposite of open is broken.”
Cable Green, Creative Commons.
18. Getting started with Open Education
• Welcome to OE101x!
Image: CC By-SA, missrogue
19. Getting started with Open Education
• Defining Open Education
• Defining Open
• Open Licensing: Creative Commons
• Open Policies
• How to get started with Open Education
• Examples of Open Education in Capacity Building
20. Getting started with Open Education
Definitions
• Open Educational Resources:
• ‘’Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license.’’ *
• ‘’OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that
permit their free use and re-purposing by others’’ **
• Open Education?!
• Unesco: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
• ** Open Education Consortium
21. Getting started with Open Education
Definitions
• Open Education:
• Open Educational Resources
• OpenCourseWare
• Open Textbooks
• Open Software
22. Getting started with Open Education
Definitions
• Open Education:
• Open Educational Resources
• OpenCourseWare
• Open Textbooks
• Open Software
• ‘‘open’’
• Free, as in: free beer (i.e. no cost)
• Open:
• No cost + Permission to modify
• Meaning: Beyond the MOOC hype
23. Getting started with Open Education
David Wiley 5Rs framework: http://www.opencontent.org/definition/
Image CC By Sunshine Connelly. Original image CC By RecycleThis
• Free to Reuse
• Free to Revise
• Free to Remix
• Free to Redistribute
• Free to Retain
25. Where to Start with Open Education?
• Build support
• Publish open content
• Connect to OE networks
• Connect with teachers, early adopters
• Draft an Open policy, but only if you need one
• Integrate: Teaching, research, library, support staff
• Get funding
27. Towards an Open Model
We need a model that:
• Scales
• Sustainable
• High-Quality
• Meets HE demand
• Fulfills the potential of Open
• Empowers
28. Workshop Open & Online Education, UEM
(NICHE/MOZ/089)
• Use of Open & Online
• Course: CC license
• Open Model
29. Towards an Open Model
Prerequisites
• Open Content
• Open Licensing
• Awareness
• Information literacy
• Language
• Connectivity
• Open Software / Formats
30. Towards an Open Model
Don’t
• Closed content
• Deliver just content
• Rely on Technology alone
Do
• Open Content
• Teach skills + Integrate content
• Integrate Technology & Pedagogy
• Connect to OE Networks
• Teacher Training & Life-long learning
• Sustainable
• Empower