Open Educational Resources (OER) in Asia in a Digitized World Grace J. Alfonso, PhD., UP OPEN...

Open Educational Resources (OER) in Asia in a Digitized WorldGrace J. Alfonso, PhD., UP OPEN UNIVERSITY

Open Educational Resources (OER) in Asia in a Digitized World

Grace J. Alfonso, PhD.Chancellor

University of the PhilippinesOPEN UNIVERSITYwww.upou.edu.ph


In 2010, UPOU produced a community television program on science and technology (S&T) issues and technologies produced by R&D institutions in Los Baños

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The UPOU offers mostly graduate programs through open and distance e-learning.

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Panel discussion of S&T issues by local experts and citizens, feature stories on technologies developed by the agencies, trivia, and other information about the town’s history, culture, and tourism.

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Produced through the efforts of volunteers from the UPOU and the R&D agencies.

Aired on local cable operator offered for free

To be uploaded in UPOU’s web-based station called UPOU Networks

Covers local issues with universal themes

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Received positive feedback from local citizens

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Open Educational Resources in Asia and the Digitized World.

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Benefits of OER to education has long been heralded

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The proliferation of educational resources leading to user confusion

Learner confusionNeed for teacher’s guidanceAcademics’ involvement in OER development & deliveryNew conception of quality assurance

ISSUES CONFRONTING OER


Popularization of complex scientific ideas

Academics’ disdain for popularizationRisk of oversimplification



Difficulty of pinning down authorship in a multimedia environment



OER suited to the Asian context Western “object” view vs. Asian “flow” view of resourcesOER in Asian languagesGreater contribution from Asian academics in OER creation



Universities are crucial in OER development

What roles can universities play in this environment?

How do academics hold on to their mission in the midst of these changes?

OER AND UNIVERSITIES


OER and the “universitas” (the larger community of scholars, the state that has given us the mandate to operate, as well as the citizenry from which we draw support)



Education is a Social Contract



Universities and Social Transformation

developing competent professionals

nurturing innovative ideas, facilitating discourse on important social issues

developing useful technologies

Free exchange of ideas



E-learners and teachers embedded in ‘universitas’ values:

• Academic freedom (Henkel, 2000; Kogan et al., 2000)

• Humanism (Veugelers 2001)• Intellectual pluralism (Parker 2009)• Cultural diversity (Berger and Huntington 2002)• Academic excellence (Askling 2009; Jung, n.d.)• Democracy (Fallis 2005)• Service to society (Brennan and others 2004)



OER Values:Freedom (Tuomi 2006)Inclusivity (Hockings 2011)Access (Geith & Vignare 2008)Resource sharing (White and

Manton 2011)Learner-centeredness

(Ngalande 2011)Flexibility (Bartlett 2010)Reflection (Demimann 2011)

OER and Universities


OER and Universitas values are supportive of each other



ICT

Access

Freedom

Resource sharing

FlexibilityLearner-centeredness

Inclusivity

Reflection

Open Knowledge

Intellectual Pluralism

Humanism

Academic freedom

Democracy

Excellence

Service to Society

ETHOS Social Transformation

NETWORKED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

CulturalDiversity

OER values

WORLD VIEW


This is more of a world view, an expression of values, a construction of how open

knowledge can be enacted in the context of the

‘universitas’.



Plurality of ideas Participatory and

multi-perspective Resources with

Asian perspective

ISSUES FOR UNIVERSITIES


Production of scholarly texts in a networked world

Involvement of academicsUse of multimedia for research and dissemination



Collaboration in OER production International collaboration Collaboration with learners

and communities of practice



Non-linearity of the medium‘Orality’ in the online environment Teachers’ proficiency in new mediaCapacity building systems



Instilling the ‘universitas’ ethos in the electronic environment

Instilling values among highly dispersed learners

New rituals for the online environment



Digital divideICT infrastructureCognitive divide

ISSUES IN ODeL


Who pays?New business modelsAdvocating for public

funding

ISSUES IN OER


Maki-Makiling was an act of volunteerism and public service… an expression of plurality of ideas, access,

and quality – the same values that cut across OER, Open knowledge, and the

universitas.

FINAL WORDS


Future plans in OER and open knowledge:• MOOCs on e-teaching world

languages and technopreneurship

• OERs on Filipino cultures and institutions

• OOCs for the out-sourcing industries

FINAL WORDS


OER offers a lot of opportunities for

experimentation and innovation.

FINAL WORDS


Thank You.

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