Knowledge Exchange Across Borders – Internationalization of

Open Education

Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski

Seoul, 07.09.2011

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Global Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä (JYU) - The Team

Kati ClementsDenis Kozlov

Jan M. Pawlowski

Philipp Holtkamp

Henri Pirkkalainen

My backgroundPh.D. Business Information Systems, University of EssenHabilitation “Quality Management / Integration of Knowledge Management and E-Learning”Professor in “Global Information Systems”Chair CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning TechnologiesISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Project Editor

JYU: Global Information Systems

Focus areasGlobal Information SystemsSupporting globally distributed workgroupsOpen Educational ResourcesReference Modeling

E-Learning

Supporting international education settingsCultural adaptationStandardization & Quality Management Mobile & Ambient LearningInnovative tools and solutions

ProjectsOpenScout: OER for ManagementTELMAP: Technology ForecastingNORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and TrainingCOSMOS, Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific ContentASPECT: Open Content and standards for schoolsiCOPER: New standards for educational technologiesLaProf: Language learning in ICT and agriculture

Contents

Barriers of OER use

Case Study Results: How does it work in the real life in Finland?

Recommdation Systems in the Future: Building your networks

Open Educational Resources…

Resources: Learning materials, courses, simulations

Tools: LMS, collaboration tools, …

Practices and experiences!

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Sample contentsOpenScout: Open Content for Management– http://www.openscout.net

Mace Project (technology base)– http://www.mace-project.eu

ITunes University– http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

OpenLearn (Open University UK)– http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Globe Network (Federation)– http://www.globe-info.org/

Ariadne Foundation (Europe)– http://www.ariadne-eu.org/

The starting point…

Waste amount of content is available in repositories, a large number of experts and users are active in social networks

Great potentials for collaboration, sharing and social innovation

European teachers find resources…

by searching using keywords 95 %

by browsing by topic / subject / age 84 %

by recommendations from colleagues 84 %

by recommendations from friends 75 %

with good ranking 61 %from an organization with a good reputation 55 %

I Trust Resources...

0 % 10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

only if I have reviewed them myself

if the resource is in my own language

if I’ve seen a preview of the resource

have been reviewed by colleagues / scientists inthe field

which have been used very often

which have received good rankings

from an organization with a good reputation(e.g., CERN, Harvard, Nasa)

from an organization which has a QualityCertificate (e.g., ISO 9000)

can be integrated in my Learning ManagementSystems / my web page

if the resource has a full metadata attached to it

The solution? Finding resources!

Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use

Usefulness? Quality? Rights?

The solution? Finding people!

Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use

Trustworthiness?

Experiences from our Case Study: Sharing of materials made by

othersWhose Materials would you use?

0,00 %20,00 %40,00 %60,00 %80,00 %

100,00 %

Colleagues atthe same school

Colleagues fromthe same

geographicalarea

Colleagues fromelsewhere in my

country

Colleagues fromoutside my

country

Finnish Teachers

European Teachers

Conclusion: Finnish teachers are more willing to use materials made by others than European teachers

Sharing: Who would you give your materials to?

Who would you give your materials to?

0,00 %10,00 %20,00 %30,00 %40,00 %50,00 %60,00 %70,00 %80,00 %90,00 %

100,00 %

Colleaguesat the same

school

Colleaguesfrom thesame

geographicalarea

Colleaguesfrom

elsewhere inmy country

Colleaguesfrom outsidemy country

None of theabove

Finnish Teachers

European Teachers

Conclusion: Finnish teachers are less willing to give materials to others than European teachers

But…Overall, the willingness to share materials with other teachers is high

How far the teachers sharing materials from each other are – doesn’t seem to matter!

→In our world in 2011: Physical distance to a colleague does not affect trust???

Usefulness: Parameters

ContentTopicContextTypeDidactical settingQuality…

PeopleProximity– Geographical– Cultural– Personal

Trustworthiness– Experiences– Recommendations– …

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Collaboration network construction

Topic / ContextB

Topic / ContextA

First degree trusted network

Second degree trusted network

Efficient network organization is the key to successTools are needed to facilitate the processOpen Issues:– Factors?– Organization?– The right

network?

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!

Predictions

Strong worldwide networks will be built (e.g. GLOBE Initiative)Trusted communities should be established, e.g., initiatives between partner countries with similar or mutually beneficial backgrounds (Korea – Finland?)No one fits all (facebook-alike) community but sub networksStarting point: The large social business & leisure networks as well as special interest sites

Predictions

Organized by location, interest and trust-levels

No more than 3 networks

Connections to various open content sources

Integration of tools & support

Challenges

Internationalization strategies and tools in global, in particular global cooperationsBusiness models: Add-on services and commercialization strategiesTrust awareness and specification mechanisms

Getting started…

Join our networks…

Work on shared teaching and development

Use, add, discuss contents

Find people and materials

Develop the idea of open education

Contact us…

Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowskijan.m.pawlowski@jyu.fi

GLIS on the web…

http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow

NORDLET OpenScout

http://www.nordlet.org/ http://www.openscout.net