Improving Trust in Open Educational Practices – Towards Knowledge and Resource Exchange Across Borders

1. Improving Trust in OEP –
Towards Knowledge and
Resource Exchange Across
Borders
Jan M. Pawlowski
28.11.2012

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3. Jyvä skylä , Finland
Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]

4. Global Information Systems
at the University of Jyvä skylä
Focus areas Projects
Global Information Systems OpenDiscoverySpace: Open
Supporting globally distributed Content and Scenarios for Schools
workgroups OpenScout: OER for Management
Open Educational Resources TELMAP: Technology Forecasting
Reference Modeling NORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network
for Learning, Education and
Training
E-Learning
COSMOS: Open Science
Supporting international
Resources: Exchange of Scientific
education settings
Content
Cultural adaptation
ASPECT: Open Content and
Standardization & Quality standards for schools
Management
iCOPER: New standards for
Mobile & Ambient Learning educational technologies
Innovative tools and solutions

5. Key Question
How to exploit the enormous potentials of
Open Educational Resources?
How to improve the re-use and sharing
process?

6. Experiences from our Case Study:
Sharing of materials made by
others
Whose Materials would you use?
100,00 %
80,00 %
60,00 % Finnish Teachers
40,00 % European Teachers
20,00 %
0,00 %
Colleagues at Colleagues from Colleagues from Colleagues from
the same school the same elsewhere in my outside my
geographical country country
area
Clements, K., Pawlowski, J.M. (2012): User-oriented quality for OER: Understanding
teachers' views on re-use, quality and trust, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning,
2012.

7. Sharing: Who would you give your
materials to?
Who would you give your materials to?
100,00 %
90,00 %
80,00 %
70,00 %
60,00 % Finnish Teachers
50,00 %
40,00 % European Teachers
30,00 %
20,00 %
10,00 %
0,00 %
Colleagues Colleagues Colleagues Colleagues None of the
at the same from the from from outside above
school same elsewhere in my country
geographical my country
area
Clements, K., Pawlowski, J.M. (2012): User-oriented quality for OER: Understanding
teachers' views on re-use, quality and trust, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning,
2012.

8. But…
Overall, the willingness to share
materials with other teachers is
high
Willingness to share across
Europe countries is high, the
context seems positive
But: It still does not work…

9. I Trust Resources...
if the resource has a full metadata attached to it
can be integrated in my Learning Management
Systems / my web page
from an organization which has a Quality
Certificate (e.g., ISO 9000)
from an organization with a good reputation
(e.g., CERN, Harvard, Nasa)
which have received good rankings
which have been used very often
have been reviewed by colleagues / scientists in
the field
if I’ve seen a preview of the resource
if the resource is in my own language
only if I have reviewed them myself
0 % 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
% % % % % % % % % %

10. The solution? Preparing a new course
– finding appropriate
Finding resources! materials for re-use
Usefulness?
Quality? Rights?

11. The solution? Preparing a new course
– finding appropriate
Finding people! materials for re-use
Trustworthiness?

12. Usefulness: Parameters
Content People
Topic Proximity
Context – Geographical
Type
Didactical setting
+ – Cultural
– Personal
Quality… Trustworthiness
– Experiences
– Recommendations
–…

13. Collaboration network construction
Efficient network
organization is the
First degree
key to success
trusted network Tools are needed to
Topic / Context
facilitate the
A process
Open Issues:
– Factors?
Topic / Context
B
– Organization?
– The right
network?
Second degree
trusted network

14. Building collaboration networks
Building networks of colleagues
– By topic
– By trust
– By proximity
Manually…or automatically…
Using collaboration networks
– Social networks
– International communities
Collaboration competency as the key success
factor for future teaching!

15. Next steps
Re-Use and Educational Collaboration will not
work based on simple search mechanisms
Organize networks based on trust and interest
Refine friend-mechanisms in social networks
(interest and trust circles)
Start sharing and re-using in trusted networks,
then start to broaden your community
Research challenges
– How to facilitate trust building
– How to create intercultural, trusted
relationships in culturally diverse
environments
– How to outreach from the initial circles?

16. Starting Questions
With whom have you shared / re-used /
collaborated?
Would you use social network functions
allowing trusted sharing?
What other relationships do you consider
important?

17. Contact us…
Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski
jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi
GLIS on the web…
http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow
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