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Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Opening Doors to Knowledge and Education Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Catherine M. Casserly The Hewlett Foundation July 17, 2007 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2. 5 License

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Amartya Sen The elimination of “unfreedoms” – with respect to knowledge, education, health, etc. Investment in human capital creates positive multiplier effects on family and next generation. Photo by Tikkun. Ger via Flickr, cc license

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education A Challenge: Too Many on the Outside, Looking In Photo by Shavar via Flickr Photo by joepub via Flickr Photo by Felipe Pimentel via Flickr Photo by kawaface via Flickr Photo by mathew ramsey via Flickr

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Promise The Progress The Obstacles The Future

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Promise

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education What is OER? • • • High quality educational content and tools Open on the Web All languages Usable and re-usable Available on any device

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Vision: • Equalize access to knowledge • Dramatically improve teaching and learning Photo by Forest. For. Trees via Flickr, cc license

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Types of OERs Open… Course. Ware…courses…books… journals… images…video lectures… textbooks…podcasts…lesson plans encyclopedias Efforts in… India, Vietnam, China, Europe, Africa, United States, Canada, Brazil Universities, K-12, libraries, publishing

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Added Value of OER • Free, available to all any time, any where. • Creates opportunities for use and re-use • Allows localization (translations, changes for different audiences) • Allows corrective improvement and other feed back (fast feedback loop leading to rapid development)

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Progress:

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education global OER repository: open to contributions from authors worldwide XML technology enables remix into customized web courses and inexpensive print textbooks peer review for quality control Creative Commons attribution license enables commercial use and sustainability

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Place exemplars into a “remixable” space to seed the creative process Open University UK sandbox for educators and learners

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Obstacles

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Some of The Obstacles • • Intellectual Property Localization and Translation Interoperability Sustainability

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Sustainability: Leveraging the “Long Tail” “Big Hits” Example – Prelinger Videos, Eve Gray from HSRC in South Africa

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Translation: CORE, OOPS and Universia

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Future

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education A Revolution in Learning

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education More bandwidth, increasing processing power, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid growth of mobile devices, decreasing costs… Increase capacity to access, collaborate, personalize, and create

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Create, Share and Improve High Quality Materials Fast feedback loops that engage rapid cycles of improvement of teaching materials: textbooks, lesson plans

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Learn by Doing To become a scientist, architect, or computer programmer…must learn to think and practice like one MIT i. Labs Discover Babylon Surgery Simulator

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Accelerated Learning: Cognitively Informed Web- based Instruction

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Immersive Teaching and Games Learn through structured play UN World Food Program: Food Force Federation of American Scientists: Immune Attack Carnegie Mellon: Peace. Maker

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Current Thinking Teaching & Learning Examples Infrastructure

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Infrastructure – Possible Components • Support organizational arrangements (e. g. ) OCW Consortium • Supporting standards setting efforts • Creative Commons – IP issues • Convening and network building • Communication

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Concrete and Significant Examples of How OER can be Used to Accomplish Teaching and Learning Goals

Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Criteria for thinking about Examples • • • Maximize use Sustainability Use and re-use Quality – different ways of ensuring Addresses a social problem Substantial significance – both the problem and the demonstration

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