Recent Activities and Future Challenges of OpenCourseWarein Hokkaido University

Hokkaido University OpenCourseWare

Masashi Sata, Izumi Fuse, Shigeto Okabe

January 22, 2013

2OpenCourseWare in Hokkaido University (HU-OCW)

●Starting from 2006

●Purposes: 1. Fulfill the social responsibility as a university

2. Raise the visibility of Hokkaido University

3. Improve teaching quality

Hokkaido University OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp

●More than 300 courses have been published

3Organization Structure

Link with their institute

Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education

Information Initiative Center

Administration Bureau

OCW Liaison (27)OCW Management

1. Collect educational materials2. Handle intellectual property rights3. Edit and publish

Operating team:

4Web Systems

Main Servers(Sapporo, Japan)

1. A web server2. A flash streaming server (without limitation)3. A wmv streaming server (with limitation)4. A test server (development, backup, etc.)

5. A web server

A Mirror Server(Beijing, China)

Delivering features of Hokkaido University to foreign public

5Publishing Channel

1. Web

4. iTunes-U

2. Flash streaming

3. mp4 podcast for iTunes

“Information Theory”Assoc. Prof. Jun-ichi INOUE http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/Course/Faculty/Engineering/InformationTheory/2005/

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Monthly AccumulationVisit

6Access Statistics (Total)

Monthly-averaged visits: 47,000 Visits (or 570,000 Page views)

Figure 1. The monthly and accumulated numbers of visits of HU-OCW (~Nov, 2012)

Several publishing channels could be an effective way to disseminate the educational materials

mp4 podcast

iTunes-U

7Access Statistics (Within campus)

Figure 2. The monthly and accumulated numbers of visits from Hokkaido University (~Nov, 2012)

Access increased at the beginning of semester

Contributed for students to search course information

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Monthly AccumulationVisit

8Access Statistics (Within campus)

Figure 2. The monthly and accumulated numbers of visits from Hokkaido University (~Nov, 2012)

Monthly-averaged visits: 1,200 Visits (< 3%)

Getting integrated with LMS to be more useful

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Monthly AccumulationVisit

9Publication Process

● To be sustainable

● To avoid too many defocusing / cut-editing

● More than 90% of HU-OCW become to be video materials

Establish an effective policy of handling intellectual property rights

Too many defocusing degrades quality of videos

● Defocusing / cut-editing on works of others

10Handling Process of intellectual property rights

start

Defocusing / Cut editing

Search source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

PHP67%

PDF19%

MP410%

Others4%

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

11Results of Handling Process

848

200/848 (24%)

58/200

69/200 47/58

2+9/58

116/200 (58%)

start

Defocusing / Cut editing

Check source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

start

Defocusing / Cut editing

Check source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

12Problem 1: Many unknown works of others

73/200 (37%)

Source is Unknown

848

200/848 (24%)

More effective way to get a reference list from faculty member is required

Unnecessary search, etc.

13Problem 2: Handling process is time-consuming

start

Defocusing / Cut editing

Check source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

● Time-consuming– Check– Search– Request / Inquiry

14Our Proposal 1

1. Unnecessary jobs should be reduced:– Non-related works to the lecture

is forced to be defocused – Simple graphs published by ministries

can be used without inquirystart

Defocusing / Cut editing

Check source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

Effect on reducing time– Check source and policy– Search source information

15Our Proposal 2, 3

● For each consortium– An umbrella agreement with publishers– An approach to change copyright law

2. Make a “permission list”3. Handling process be common

– Sharing information about "permission list“start

Defocusing / Cut editing

Check source information

Check copyrights policy

Permission request

Give a suitable credit, etc.

Check author

Permitted explicitly?

Accepted?Yes

No / Unknown

Yes

No / Unknown

Is source confirmed?

Yes

Works of others?

Pick up materials

Yes

Effect on reducing time– Check policy– Request / Inquiry

16Summary

●The number of access is increasing with that of publishing channel

● the access from inside the campus is still low

Getting integrated with LMS to be useful

● Handling process of copyrights is time-consuming

Information should be shared among members of OCW

Intellectual property rights

Recent status of HU-OCW

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18Hokkaido University @ Sapporo, Japan

19Introduction

OpenCourseWare

Targets Merits

Faculty members

● Sharing them with colleagues around the world ● reflecting on their lecture (Faculty Development)

Lifelong learners

● A fair opportunity to access to interested information and knowledge● Free of charge ● Whenever and wherever they are

Students ● Preparing and reviewing lessons● Searching the course information

20Contents

1. Educational materials created by faculty members

2. Movies filmed by the operating team3. Historical notes written by students

in the 19th century

21Educational text materials

Educational text materials created by the faculty members have been published.

“Information Theory”Assoc. Prof. Jun-ichi INOUE

http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp/Course/Faculty/Engineering/InformationTheory/2005/

22Video materials

The movies are:– Used in the guidance of

experimentation courses.– Helpful for students to choose

subjects.

We support flash streaming and mp4 podcasts.

23Historical lecture note

Some notes written by students in the 19th century are archived in Hokkaido University Library.

Some of the notes were converted into machine-editable text.

Lectures on Agriculture (1877)Inazo NITOBE

Inazo Nitobe, one of the Under-Secretaries General of the League of Nations, became a founding director

of International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, the

forerunner of UNESCO.

24Summary

Getting integrated with ELMS (Education and Learning Management System developed by Hokkaido University)

●Syllabus information has been uploaded to ELMS●Faculty members can upload educational materials by themselves●interaction between teachers and students