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An example on new action oriented policies.
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Managing active research in the university – Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh
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Workshop organized by LangOER network (presenter: Ioannis Lefkos) during the Scientix/EMINENT conference on science education; Barcelona, 20-21 November 2015.
Check also the blog post: http://blogs.eun.org/langoer/2015/12/02/a-langoer-workshop-at-the-eminent2015-scientix-conference-in-barcelona/
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An example on new action oriented policies.
Open Educational Resources: Building a Culture of SharingCatriona Savage
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Active research from lab to publication – Simon Coles, University of Southampton
Managing active research in the university – Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh
Making research available: FAIR principles and Force 11 - David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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Incentives to innovate – Joe Marshall, NCUB
Incentives in university collaboration - Tim Lance, NYSERNET
Giving researchers credit for their data – Neil Jefferies, The Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS)
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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University of California and university digital library costing models – MacKenzie Smith, UC Davis
Total cost of ownership and flipped OA – Liam Earney, Jisc
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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Digital scholarship centres – Harriet Hemmassi, Brown University and Joan Lippincott, CNI
Software carpentry and software skills and practice – Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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3. OER refers to any educational resources (including curriculum maps, course
materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and
any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning)
that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an
accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees (Butcher, 2011).
OER can exist as smaller, stand-alone resources (reusable learning objects), that
can be mixed and combined to form larger pieces of content or as larger course
modules or full courses.
OER can also include simulations, labs, collections, journals, and tools. These
materials are considered open if they are released under an open license such as
a Creative Commons license.
OER definition
4. Armenia Latvia
Azerbaijan Lithuania
Belarus Moldova
Brazil Mongolia
China Poland
France Russia
Japan Turkey
Kazakhstan Ukraine
Kenya Uzbekistan
Kyrgyz Republic Vietnam
UNESCO IITE project
“OER in non-English-speaking countries”
7. Internal motivations of producers and users of OER
• An interest in innovative teaching methods and resources
• A willingness to expand the access of students and colleagues to their materials
• A desire to enhance the visibility of the university
• An opportunity to gain additional recognition and scores during appraisal
Benefits
1. Potential financial saving due to eliminating the duplication of efforts in the
development of teaching materials
2. The use of OER can have a positive impact on the quality of the education being
offered.
Findings of UNESCO IITE project
“OER in non-English-speaking countries”
8. • National/institutional strategies for the ICT use in education are mainly oriented
towards infrastructure and seldom encourage the development of educational
content
• Educators often lack awareness about the availability of OER and the opportunities
they provide
• Most people are not familiar with intellectual property rights; national IPR
regulations are often incompatible with open licenses
• Emerging pedagogical approaches suggesting the use OER are yet to be adopted by
educators and HEIs
• Quality assessment and assurance provisions for ensuring OER to be academically
and/or pedagogically sound do not exist
• The reward/encouragement system for introducing OER into educational practice is
non-existent and the provision of OER is not considered during performance
evaluation
Barriers to the development and use of OER
9. Language barrier
Technological Barriers
• The ICT infrastructure has developed unevenly within the surveyed countries,
and is often insufficient to support the widespread development and sharing
of OER. Despite considerable progress in recent years, access to and use of
ICT is often low.
• Although in recent years much effort and money have been invested in
computer literacy training for teachers, their skills in some countries are
insufficient to use open source software and OER in their professional
activities on an everyday basis. In many of the surveyed countries, the
development and adaption of OER is inevitably restricted by the shortage of
faculty having the necessary orientation, motivation, knowledge and skills.
Barriers to the development and use of OER
10. Economic Issues
Most of the surveyed countries belong to the categories of developing or transition
economies, thus national governments have to take sensitive decisions on
prioritising certain items in their budget expenditures. For most of them, education
is a priority, but currently there is an excessive skew towards infrastructure.
Legal Barriers
Electronically concluded contracts and licenses are not valid in some countries,
waiving some of the rights granted by existing copyright law is perceived as legally
impossible. In many cases, the resistance to adopting open licenses was not always
related to the fact that national IPR legislation contradicted the terms of CC licenses.
Most, if not all, current legal problems with CC licensing can be overcome through
the changes to the relevant laws in the short to medium term.
Barriers to the development and use of OER
11. Lack of knowledge-sharing culture, particularly around sharing and reusing
learning materials
The biggest barrier for teachers is a cultural one around teaching practices and
overcoming academic practices surrounding using, reusing or remixing other people’s
material for fear of infringing copyright or being accused of committing plagiarism;
or of believing that it is inappropriate for local needs or poor quality. (Andy Lane,
2010)
In many institutions research or producing your own content is valued higher than using
other people’s content.
Teachers (in primary and secondary education) may be more interested in pre-developed
educational resources that directly help them in their teaching than in adapting
resources themselves.
OER development is still rooted in the “publish for use as is” mode, where the sharing is
one-way rather than reciprocal.
Barriers to the development and use of OER
12. Regulatory Barriers and Pedagogy
• Formal primary, secondary and tertiary education is heavily governed by
national policies and laws. Institutions and teachers are cautious about
changing their policies and practices, including sharing educational resources
and adopting and adapting resources from outside.
• There is a tension between the academic values of sharing knowledge and
the “commercial” values of selling educational content/services and/or
competing for fee-paying students both nationally and internationally.
• Pedagogy still favours face-to-face presentation by a lecturer rather than
flexible, resource-based, student-oriented learning.
• A lack of support staff to help teachers adopt new practices is also a serious
problem in promoting OER.
Barriers to the development and use of OER
13. • Awareness raising and promotion of OER and open licenses
• Education strategy with adequate provisions for open education practices
• Allocation of public funding for ICT infrastructure and production of educational
content, maintenance of OER repositories, and acquisition of adequate ICT skills
appropriate to producing and sharing OER
• Revising pedagogical approaches, curriculum and quality standards
• Assessment and credentialing
• Fostering the concept of “openness” — the philosophy of sharing, reusing,
adapting, readapting, translating and localising educational resources — amongst
educators, learners and the general population by governments and institutions
alike
Recommendations for the main action lines
and measures to be taken
14. • Government strategy and government-supported initiatives are needed.
Governments should encourage publicly funded HEIs to collaborate in sharing
their educational resources and to provide the necessary infrastructure and
support.
• Governments need to take immediate steps to align national copyright and IPR
legislation and regulations with open licenses.
• In line with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
recommendations formulated in Giving Knowledge for Free (OECD & CERI,
2007), it is important to ensure comprehension, at all levels, that academic and
research output, as well as the national cultural heritage, made available in
digital format with the use of public funds should also be available for
education, at no cost.
Recommendations for the main action lines
and measures to be taken
15. Governments are encouraged to:
• support national OER initiatives (Netherlands Wikiwijs or the UKOER programme)
• establish national consortia (e.g., the China Open Resources for Education, the Japan
and the Turkish OCW Consortia) or encourage institutions to join the global Open
Education Consortium
• revise policies and standards regulating higher education,
• provide financial mechanisms for the production and use of OER
• invest in capacity-building and awareness-raising on OER issues
• recommend wider use of open licensing and open format standards
• rethink curriculum design
• take measures aimed at ensuring the adoption of new pedagogical approaches
Recommendations for the main action lines
and measures to be taken
16. • Institutions and teachers need to promote and support learner-centered
pedagogical approaches that rely on educational resources as much as direct
teacher instruction.
• Institutions need to provide training and development for their teaching staff, and
both recognize and reward teachers who develop and publish good OER.
• Teachers need to adopt new teaching practices that encourage learner-centered
pedagogical approaches which use new technologies and require greater co-
operation.
• To ensure that the open educational content meets the quality standards required
by the institutional users, without the quality control process restricting the spirit of
creativity, alternative evaluation practices could be put in place alongside the
existing practices that encourage a participatory culture of open peer review.
• OER should be developed in national languages (including minority) other than
English.
Recommendations for the main action lines
and measures to be taken
17. Online survey: 147 respondents from 54 countries: Europe (39%), Asia and
the Pacific (19%), Africa (11%), North America (7%) and Latin America (5%)
Foresight project “Access, Equity and Quality: Envisioning
the Future of Higher Education in a Digital Age”
18. Findings
• The need for curriculum reform is due to such changes as the availability
and development of OER
• Varying readiness to acceptance, use and recognition of learning outcomes
for OER and MOOCs
• The impact of these developments on the change of the roles of teachers
and institutions and the urgent need to (re)train teachers
• The consequences of these developments for the way in which informal/
formal learning results are translated into credits and can be transferred
and used
• Price and quality expectations vary for the production of resources and
delivery of education services, including those for people with disabilities
Foresight project “Access, Equity and Quality: Envisioning
the Future of Higher Education in a Digital Age”
19. Unbundling of content
In 2003, the iTunes Store unbundled the CD. For the first time, consumers could
purchase the songs they wanted rather than the bundle designated by the artist and
label. Sales of digital singles soared but overall revenue fell 50 percent in a decade.
Prior to this transformation, the business model for the music industry relied on
bundling the music that consumers wanted (singles) with the music that they didn't
want (the rest of the album). That meant the music industry made money it wouldn't
have made without the bundle.
• "Unbundling” content is the future of education: Anant Agarwal, CEO, edX
Bundling has been central to the higher education business model for centuries.
Colleges and universities combine content and a wide range of products and services
into a single package, for which they charge "tuition and fees."
New Forms of Content Presentation and Credentialing
20. Digital badges and micro-credentials
The latest trend in higher education is micro-credentialing, the non-traditional
education path where students gain skill sets in a specific area and receive a credential.
This trend is very promising for life-long learning.
Micro-credentials are take the form of a digital certificate, which may be a document
or image file, or other official evidence that you've completed the necessary work. The
organization that grants the micro-credential decides what they will provide, so be sure
to check it's what you need before you begin.
In 2015, Udacity announced a new nanodegree (nanodegrees are ‘curriculums
designed to help you become job-ready)’— the Android nanodegree in partnership
with Gooogle.
Penn State’s College of Business launched an online bootcamp course, ‘Supply Chain
Leadership Academy’, to educate “supply chain leaders of tomorrow in leadership and
best practices in holistic supply chain management”.
http://bostonbeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Digital_Badging_Paper_NMEF.pdf
New Forms of Content Presentation and Credentialing
21. Jill Downie (2015).
Foresight in ICT in Higher
education. Presentation at
the expert
meeting “Access, Equity
and Quality: Envisioning
the Future of Higher
Education in a Digital Age”
(April, 2015), Paris)
http://iite.unesco.org/files/news/639
201/Jill_Downie_Australia.pdf
New Forms of Credentialization (Curtin University)
22. THANK YOU!
Dr. Svetlana KNYAZEVA
UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
s.knyazeva@unesco.org
http://iite.unesco.org/
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