Open Education Takes Flight:

DL, OER, OCW, and MOOCS

Prepared for the African Virtual University

17/05/2013

Nairobi, Kenya

Massification

(From Elite to Mass Institutions)

THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM CANNOT

ACCOMMODATE THE CURRENT QUANTITY OF

STUDENTS SEEKING HIGHER EDUCATION

Massification of Education

“The need to respond to the demands of massification has

caused the average qualification for academics in many

countries to decline.”

“Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic

Revolution,” UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

Altbach, Reisberg and Rumbley

Massification of Education

Demand for higher education creates

demand for additional higher education

spending.

Revenue Enhancement

Globalization

Revenue

Enhancement ->

Globalization ->

Massification ->

Cost reduction

New markets

Baseline

instructional

quality

Open Education,

like distance education,

seeks to lower

the cost of delivery

of Higher Education

Open Education corresponds to

the historic mission of

universities to share knowledge

Open is free of cost to the user

Open is efficient. No need

to ask for permission.

OER?

OCW?

MOOCs?

License Scope Tech

OER Creative Commons

Material-level content

File Formats

OCW Creative Commons

Course-length content

File Formats

MOOC Mixed Copyright and Creative Commons

Course-length Instructional path

LMS + Video + Quiz Feedback + Peer Assessment + Learning Analytics

Advantages Uses

OER Reuse Material-level content suits integration in other learning environments

OCW Reuse + Course-length Collection

Concurrent learning Self-learning Self-paced

MOOC Instructional Path + Feedback + Analytics

Course replacement Self-learning

Disadvantages Reasons

OER Difficulty of assembly of OERs for reuse

Learning is contextual. It is hard to adopt OERs as they are when the scope is smaller than a full course.

OCW Typically does not include a learner-centric instructional path

It is well-known that learning with feedback is more effective than a content-only approach

MOOC Typical pedagogy is short video followed by a quiz

Peer assessment, while promising, does not work very well currently.

Beyond MOOCs

Next Steps

Analyze learning engagement

Trend 2: Learning Analytics

Next Steps

Machine scoring of essays

http://www.kaggle.com/c/asap-aes/details/team

Next Steps

Certify Competencies

Next Steps

Build Peer Learning Networks

Next Steps

Adaptive Learning for STEM Subjects

Next Steps

Open, Articulated Curriculum

Thank You

Larry Cooperman President, Board of Directors

OpenCourseWare Consortium

http://www.ocwconsortium.org

Member, Board of Directors

African Virtual Unviersity

http://www.avu.org

Contact Information Email: ljcooper@uci.edu

Twitter: openeducator

Blog: http://thefuture ofhighered.com