Mapping OER, MOOCs, Open Education and Other Kinds of

e-Learning – implications

Paul Bacsich, Sero

Online Educa BerlinGermany

5 December 2014

POERUP Achievements 2011-2014

• Inventory of 501 OER initiatives worldwide (and 200+ in queue)

• 33 country reports – EU countries, Commonwealth, Mexico, Middle East…

• 8 case studies including Wikiwijs, ALISON (Ireland), OER U (global) and FutureLearn (UK-based)

• 3 EU-level policy documents for universities, VET (FE colleges) and schools

• 8 policy documents for UK (England, Scotland, Wales), Ireland, France, Netherlands, Poland – and Canada

Reported in October 2014

KA3 ICT

In the context of…

• Studies from OU days (1996) of distance learning providers

• Re.ViCa – virtual campuses (post-secondary): 2007-09

• VISCED – virtual schools and colleges (ISCED 2,3,4): 2011-13

• Ongoing market and competitor research studies for universities and e-learning companies

• SharedOER, reporting this month, with case study of Common Core OER

• UK study on flexible learning barriers

• new studies e.g. Adult Education, more market research

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Search/Map

Is easy now!

Custom Map Tool – OER in lots of countries

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Mapping is easy with Google Map Engine– and interactive if you use Semantic MediaWiki!

• Set up a database

– Excel (or GoogleDocs, LibreOffice…)

• Collect names and addresses of the entities

• Find addresses via e.g. mygeoposition.com

• Decide on what other fields to collect

• Map! Examples at poerup.referata.com/Maps

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Google Maps (EUMENA, part of)

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On next page:

Two versions of the dynamic Semantic Map on the POERUP Semantic Mediawiki site, using the

dynamic version (i.e. the wiki version, incorporating all editor changes) of the Sero OER

Map database

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But what About Open Access?

(I hear you say…)

Harvested OpenDOAR dataset displayed on the POERUP wiki in OpenStreetMap

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General Reflections

EU’s Opening Up Education

“Innovative teaching and learning for all through new Technologies and

Open Educational Resources”

“Opening Up Education”: a hierarchy

• Open Access (general use and research) [basement]

1. OER “stricto sensu” (UNESCO/COL) [no time to deconstruct]

2. Freely available resources (but wrong license)

3. Free to closed communities (students, teachers, MOOC registrants)

4. Real value is charged for (freemium) – e.g. ALISON, MOOCs

5. Lower-cost (or price?) – e.g. €3000/year degree (accredited)

6. “Commercial” cost (e.g. UK MSc online) – circa €15000, maybe double for non-EU students

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The Iron Triangle – bring it back!

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Quality

CostAccess

The cost subhierarchy

• Free content and access (or other services) subsidised

1. Free (but is that cheap enough? See above)

2. Free content but rest paid for

3. Very low monthly cost (e.g. Spotify, Mendeley, etc) – around 10 $/£/€ per month

4. “Credit card job” degree (roughly £3000/FTE/year in UK)

5. Lower cost degree (comfort level for many OUs?)

6. Usual UK (actually England) pricing for EU students

7. And even more (why not less?) for non-EU students…

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Thoughts (not Recommendations)

• It’s ten years since UKeU died and a dream died: time to move on, not dream more drOOMs

• Focus much more on the audiences for your proposition (if they are markets, call them that)

• Be honest with your “mainstream” students on what you are doing and why, and how it will benefit them(and if not, make sure it does)

• Start really working on reducing the system and life-cycle cost of producing graduates – an end to grand gestures?

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Thank you for listening – and for contributing!

Now check out

http://www.poerup.info (PR) and

http://poerup.referata.com (wiki) and

http://www.poerup.org.uk (map)

Paul Bacsich: paul.bacsich@sero.co.uk