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Introduction to OpenCourseWare
28 November 2012
OpenCourseWare in the European HE context
Willem van Valkenburg
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Agenda
• Introduction• OpenCourseWare Consortium• Why should we do this?• OpenCourseWare in Europe• Questions
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What is “Open”?
• Free• Shared• Choices• Ability to adapt• Cost effective• Ability to tailor & build
your own• Creative Commons• Freedom of info and use
• Quality assurance• Varied availability by
disciplines• Available to anybody• Digital• Often multimedia• Accessibility—more
accessible to some and less to others
CC-BY Brandon Muramatsu: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oex
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OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content
Open Educational Resources
OCW
• OCW is only one type of Open
Educational Resource (OER).
• OERs are only one type of
Open Content.
• We have much to share with
each other.
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What are Open Educational Resources?
• Shared educational materials• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification • Available to anyone via the internet (and often
other means)David Wiley 4R’s:Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with othersRevise – adapt and editRemix – combine with others
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What is OpenCourseWare?
• High quality educational materials organized as courses
A course is package of educational materials starting a particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and modification, available to all on the internet
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What are OpenCourseWare projects?
• Institutions that have committed to sharing some of their educational materials with the world
• Can be text only – reproduction of materials used for classroom lectures
• Can include video, recordings, materials developed especially for internet learning
• Can be translations of courses already on OCW sites• Can be remixes of materials from various courses and
local contexts
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What is Open Education?
• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:
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Why Be Open?
Education is Sharing
Paradox of Free
Buy One, Get One
Facilitate the Unexpected
Content is Infrastructure
Continuous Improvement
The $5 Textbook
Do the Right Thing
Based on David Wiley’s presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-arguments-and-examples
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Why be Open? Global Benefits
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Washington’s Open Course Library
A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses
a worldwide community of hundreds of institutions committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. >20k courses published
TU Delft content is used at ITB Bandung to educate students about water
Watermanagement
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advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
to advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
Our mission
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• ~280 members• >170 live OCW sites• >20,000 courses
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
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OpenCourseWare in Europe
• Situation in Europe:• Many different countries• Already have the brick-and-mortar universities• We educate students for more than 2000 years• Very conservative in regards to education• Universities face budget cuts due to the eurocrisis
• Consequences:• Europe is lacking behind• Eurocrisis gives opportunity to change
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OpenCourseWare in Europe
How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility
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Objectives
Facilitate virtual mobility• Create of preconditions for a strong European
OCW-framework• closer cooperation between European
institutes• mutual use of material and even joint degrees• enhance quality and increase the usage of
online courses
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Partners
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Phases
• Pedagogic and cultural issues
• Models for sustainable cooperation between HEI on OCW
• Educational innovation with OCW
• Comparing and assessing national policies and the role of governments
Phase 1Research
• Workshops for dissimination and input of experts
• Final results, based upon research and the outcomes of the workshops.
• Results: publications end 2013 through different channels cited by major organizations active in the field of OER.
Phase 2Workshops
Phase 3Final
Reports• Foundation for a
European branch of the OCWC has been initiated towards the end of 2013.
Phase 4OCWC Europe
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Research deliverables
• Analyses of existing research and best practices
• Models for sustainable cooperation between HEI on OCW
• Student Mobility Handbook • Comparing and assessing national policies
and the role governments– Combined with other initiatives
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Call for Partners
Academic Network for STEM Courses• STEM = Science Technology
Engineering & Math• 25 partners from 25 countries in Europe• Deadline January 2013• Grant to maximum of k€ 600• TU Delft will coordinate
• More information: http://opencourseware.eu/STEM
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More on OpenCourseWare
Thursday 11.45 to 13.00 in Potsdam III• Meena Hwang, OpenCourseWare Consortium, USA
Creating Impact Inside and Beyond Classrooms: Opening and Sharing for Global Benefits
• Willem van Valkenburg, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsOpenCourseWare in Europe: How to Make Use of Its Full Potential for Virtual Mobility
• Frederik Truyen, KU Leuven CS Digital, BelgiumStudents' Agency in Open Courseware: Perspectives of Students in Taking Responsibility over Open Courseware
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Credits
Partners• Delft University of Technology• Universidad Politécnica Madrid• Universitat de Barcelona• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup• OpenCourseWare Consortium• Creative Commons
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