Role of OCW in Open Education Era

Haruo Takemura

Cybermedia Center, Osaka University

President, Japan OpenCourseWare Consotium

Board Member, OpenCourseWare Consotium

Outline

What is OCW Current status of JOCW Current status of OCWC OCW in relation to OER OCW and Globalization in Education

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OUTLINE 2

OCW ⊂ OER OPEN 　≠　 FREE OPEN ≠ Reusable

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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.

What is OpenCourseWare?

An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.

OCW 　≒　 Free Textbook + α 　？

What is OpenCourseWare ?

Collection of course materials used for university courses published by individual universities.

Text book, PPT slides, Hand out, video etc.

Not always designed for on-line learning.

Not all courses of participating universities are published.

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Japan OpenCourseWare consortium

Started on May 13, 2005 as Japan OpenCourseWare Alliance.

In year 2006, JOCW officially established.

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会員数

43 organizations43 organizations （（ 23 univs.23 univs. 、、 4 NPOs4 NPOs 、、 16 companies16 companies ））

Members of JOCWMembers of JOCW

Courses from JOCWCourses from JOCW

Visitors to all JOCW sitesVisitors to all JOCW sites

OCWC Global 2011

Courses from JOCW

Most of them are in Japanese (2,500 out of 3,000) Because most of courses taught in Japanese Universities

are in Japanese. Is this good or bad?

Global point of view Little impact on learners who do not understand

Japanese

Local point of view Good for Japanese learners

In Japan, Life long learning or recurrent education are not popular yet. Nice show case of university education.

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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.

OpenCourseWare Consortium

The OCW Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. We serve as a resource for starting and sustaining OCW projects, as a coordinating body for the movement on a global scale, and as a forum for exchange of ideas and future planning.

Over 250 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education

21%

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22%

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32%7%

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OCW growth

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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.

What is Value of OCWWhat is Value of OCW

• For Universities• A show case of their education• Contribution to the society

• For Students• Resource for deciding which classes to take.• Self-learning materials.

• For Faculty• Resource for Faculty Development

• For Prospective Students• Recourse for deicing which university to study.

• For Alumni

• For General public

Discussions

OCW v.s. OER Is OCW Ready for Open Education ? QA issue of OCW Emerging O.E. markets Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher

Education? The role of IT in OCW/OER MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities

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Discussions

OCW v.s. OER OCW is designed based on University courses. OER has no such a restrictions.

OCW is usually maintained by a single contributor OER may have different strategies

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Discussions

Is OCW Ready for Open Education ?

OCW based on a face to face lecture contents lacks in teaching.

OCW based on a face to face lecture video lacks in feedback or bi-directional communication between a instructor and students.

OCW is not modular based contents. Meta Data is missing

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Discussions

QA issue of OCW

Publishing courses under the name of a University self-regulate their quality.

There is no formal review process in many cases Connexions or MERLOT may have better strategies ?

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Discussions

Emerging O.E. markets

Open Education in many cases are not Free Education. Who is going to pay costs for Open Education?

Government ? Students ? Course providers ?

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Discussions

Cost effectiveness of OER and OCW

ICT serves to reduce the cost for delivering courses Cost for copying Cost for delivering Cost for producing

How about cost for teaching, testing and communicating?

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Discussions

Will OCW/OER speed up advancement in Higher Education?

Have Open Source Software speeded up advancement in Software Development ? -- Yes or Maybe

This may not true for OCW/OER, because Revising curse contents is much more complicated than

programming. Programming has less cultural issues than education. Programming is much more self-descriptive than course

contents.

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Discussions

The role of IT in OCW/OER Course publication

LMS, CMS integration. Use of cloud base services

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Discussions

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) v.s. Universities

Are MOOCs Open Education? Yes, they are open to public but not always free.

Why many top level universities are interested in MOOCs Large test bed for pedagogical study. Good way to find out potential students.

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ConclusionConclusion

OCW contents needs to be redesigned so that the

contents can be reused in various forms. Use of IT from the design of a course may improve the

situation. Module based course design can be achieved with help of good authoring software.

Lecture capture with automated caption and translation may help a lot to reduce production costs of OCW.

Pedagogical approach is essential for success. Technology oriented strategy may stall at some point.

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