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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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