Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy
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Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy
- 1. Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- 2. OPEN BOOK PROJECT Educational Diplomacy 2013-2014
- 3. OER Exchange Program Promoting Open Educational Resources Middle East & North Africa 1- 21-March-2014 Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, USA Sponsored by: US State Department, Arab League, ALECSOOER Exchange Participants photo by Ismail Mekkaoui Alaoui CC BY 4.0
- 4. MENA Site Visits Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Paul Stacey Mary Lou Forward James Glapa-Grossklag October 2014 United States Central Intelligence Agency. Northern Africa and the Middle East. [Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010585096/. (Accessed February 24, 2017.)
- 5. OER Workshop Riyadh 27-Oct-2014 Introduction & importance of OER - Mary Lou Forward OER ecosystem - James Glapa- Grossklag Success factors for National OER framework - Paul Stacey
- 6. National OER Initiative Presented By Dr. Abullah Al-Megren General Manager Manager National Center for e-Learning and Distance Learning Saudi Arabia
- 7. Vision Establish the National level consortium for OERs, enriching teaching and learning, resulting in empowering the knowledge economy. OER – Open Educational Resources Mission • Propose the national level initiative for OER Consortium. • Invite institutions to form the OER Consortium. • Constitute a team for formulating strategies and policies for the management and sustainable development of the OER consortium. • Develop high quality OERs, meeting the demands of stakeholders, and facilitate them to produce SPOOCs and MOOCs
- 8. Proposed OER Initiative’s EcosystemSupportive Policy Educator Demand Quality Supply User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs. Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs. Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications. Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights Communities of Practices Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content Development Quality Assurance OER RepositoryReviseReuse Remix Redistribute
- 9. As an OER policy quick start we provided: an open policy rationale & open policy text for grant making These provide model language and text can be incorporated into grant programs
- 11. Multi dimensional approach in embracing e-Learning. Our effort is in progress to utilize the set of services and digital content in strengthening our OER movement.
- 14. Dr. Fengchun Miao Chief of the Unit for ICT in Education UNESCO Workshops & Seminars 2011-2015 Dr. Stephen Downs National Research Council, Canada Dr. Mike Smith OER Advocate
- 15. 2016-2017
- 16. Supportive Policy Educator Demand Quality Supply User friendly policies for developing, reusing and sharing OERs. Training and Awareness programs to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute OERs. Develop high quality easy to adapt OERs as per ISCED Classifications. Developer / Contributor IP PolicyUsability Rights Communities of Practices Existing Content Sharing Content curation New Content Development Quality Assurance OER Repository ReviseReuse Remix Redistribute Adapted from : http://www.hewlett.org/sites/default/files/The%20Open%20Educational%20Resources%20Ecosystem_1.pdf
- 17. Universities have started to share their existing e-Content About 1000 OER Champions are being trained from PE/HE/LLL across the country OER Policy is Being Developed Our OER Platform is in Beta Testing
- 20. “To remain human and livable, knowledge societies will have to be societies of shared knowledge.” – Koïchiro Matsuura Former Director-General of UNESCO
- 21. National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy General Points • Next step in the process… • Collaborative project with Creative Commons. • All three documents are DRAFT. NCeL is reviewing now. • All documents will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. – so other nations may reuse / revise / remix. • OER Team and University OER Teams to be created.
- 22. National Open Education Strategy • Saudi Arabia OER Strategy Key Points • Vision / Mission • Foundations, Guidelines and Principles • Open Education Goals • Scope • Implementation • Appendix A: OER Frequently Asked Questions • Appendix B: Ex. of Culture Impacting National Open Edu Strategy
- 23. National Open Education Strategy Vision • To enable creation, innovative use and sharing of quality Open Educational Resources that will ensure education is accessible for every citizen in the Kingdom, contribute to equitable lifelong learning opportunities, the creation of a knowledge society, and the efficient utilization of government educational funds, public services, infrastructure and resources in education.
- 24. National Open Education Strategy Open Education Goals • Access – Ensure all Saudi citizens, in every sector of society, have universal, accessible, free, and legal access to effective open education resources and learning opportunities. • Quality – Saudi teachers and learners have access to, use, create and iteratively improve quality OER. • Efficiency – Ensure all government funded education resources are openly licensed, and efficient utilization of other government provided education resources, services and infrastructure. • Sharing – Support collaboration and engagement of communities of educators and learners around OER to cultivate a culture of openness and sharing in education.
- 25. National Open Education Master Plan • OER Master Plan Framework – Funding – Open Education Goals, Actions, Outcomes and Timeline – Capacity Building – Monitoring and Evaluation – Advocacy and Awareness Raising – Incentives & OER Champions • National OER Team & University OER Teams • Appendix A: OER Policy Reports • Appendix B: OER Research • Appendix C: Resources to Teach People about Open Education • Appendix D: Definitions and Abbreviations
- 26. National Open Education Licensing Policy • Open Education Licensing Policies Explained • Saudi Arabia Copyright Law • Reason to Require Open Licenses on Government Funded Education Resources • IGO Support National-Level Adoption of Open Education Licensing Policies • Use Standard Open Licenses • Open Licensing Respects Copyright and Authors • Open Education Licensing Policies Adopted Globally • Appendix A: Open Policy Resources • Appendix B: Resources for Implementing an Open Education Licensing Policy • Appendix C: Definitions and Abbreviations • Appendix D: Playbook for Implementing Open Licensing Policies • Appendix E: DRAFT Ministry Level Open Education Licensing Policy • Appendix F: DRAFT Grant / Contract Level Open Education Licensing Policy
- 27. Come to the Creative Commons Summit! • summit.creativecommons.org • Toronto, Canada • April 28-30, 2017
- 28. Saudi Arabia’s National Open Education Strategy, Master Plan & Policy Abdullah Almegren, Cable Green, & Paul Stacey Except where otherwise noted presentation licensed using Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Editor's Notes
- Welcome and Introductions to panel. Paul leads off.
- Started with Open Book Project initiated by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. Educational diplomacy seeking to enhance US MENA relations. Open Book Project Objectives Build partnerships between the US and MENA region to make more learning materials open, free, and connected to Arab educators, students, and classrooms Lower geographic, economic, and gender-based barriers to learning Expand access to free, high-quality, open education materials in Arabic, with a focus on science and technology Implement open licensing in the MENA region that enables anyone to use, adapt, and share these education materials Deliver the benefits of open education to the Arab world Help Arab professors and intellectuals create their own open courses Explore the benefits of OER for governments, institutions, faculty, students and the public, specifically examining how OER affects teaching and learning practices including the inter-relationships and synergy of OER with open access, open data, open policy, open science Evaluate the impact of OER on education
- Organized as exchange program with selected participants from MENA region. Participants from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen came to USA for 3 week OER orientation and internships in March of 2014. Here they all are! Over the three weeks participants received help in crafting an OER initiative plan they would implement on return home.
- Second phase involved OER Exchange organizers going to MENA to do site visits with some of the participants. Assess progress, provide further assistance, and report out to State Department a set of recommendations.
- After going to Tunisia we travelled to Riyadh Saudi Arabia where we were hosted by Dr. Abdullah Almegren. Visited universities and gave OER Workshop to Directors of teaching and learning units from across Saudi Arabias higher education system.
- Workshop included Dr. Almegren’s plan for an OER Initiative in Saudi Arabia By 2018 the Saudi Arabian OER initiative seeks to: Create a sustainable and productive environment that supports emerging Open Educational Practices (OEP) for design, development and improvement of OER Translate and use the Creative Commons licenses for education (CC just released official Arabic translation of 4.0 license) Create opportunities to exchange of best practices, including collection of examples from different initiatives and using them to develop comprehensive guidelines Create a consortium of Arab Universities for OER, where all resources in every discipline will be in Arabic Engage faculty members and specialized content providers in use and production of OER Enhance credibility and reliability of OER produced through OEP by fulfilling needs of participating institutions Establish standards and a quality assurance process for OER Put in place a national repository for OER Create a dynamic, easy to use platform and framework that lays the basis of a real sustainable partnership Support and conduct research studies that improve overall OER system Create an award for best Arab or local OER initiative Form an OER initiative organizational structure with a board of directors, departments of different disciplines, and a logistics administration group.
- As an OER policy quick start we provided: an open policy rationale and open policy text for grant making These provide model language and text can be incorporated into grant programs
- The National Center for e-Learning and Distance Learning (NCeL) has emerged, under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education, as a leader, supervisor, and supporter of e-Learning at the higher education level. We aspire to become a melting pot of Saudi Educational Systems experience in the field of e-Learning, and to pave the way for a promising future through honest competition and widened horizons. NCeL has launched several programs/services related to e-Learning and Distance in Saudi Arabia. Now we see these programs/services contributing to our OER movement.
- With the launch of Vision 2030 Saudi Arabia(http://vision2030.gov.sa/en) ,NCeL under the patronage of Ministry of Education,is leading the e-Learning transformation under the National transformation plan 2020.Here we see the scope of e-Learning and OER movement making a major contribution.
- We see them as both, Evolution in terms of practicing openness. Revolution in terms of efficiency of sharing cost and resources.
- NCeL conducted regular seminars, workshops and international conferences between 2011-15,and lead international experts in the field of OER laid the foundation for OER movement.
- Our OER initiative which was started in early 2014,has now transformed into a complete program "SHMS" - Saudi OER Network. Organizations such has UNESCO, ISKME,and Creatives Commons are supporting us in this program. We intend to have more global strategic partnerships.
- Currently work is in progress to address Demand, Supply and Policy aspect of our OER program.
- As we speak, OER platform (shms.sa to be launched soon) is in Beta testing, we are piloting with 13 universities and few public education institutions. OER policy development is in final stages. About 1000 OER champions are being trained across Saudi Arabia. Universities have started sharing their existing e-content as OER.
- These are the common challenges we are facing and NCeL is geared up to address them through international and local support.
- Moving forward, we see that SHMS being the largest Arabic OER HUB, supporting the Arabic educational resources development.
- Welcome and Introductions to panel. Paul leads off.