20100608 Presentatie OpenCourseWare

10-04-23

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

What is OpenCourseWare?Best practices worldwide

Willem van Valkenburg

2OCW Seminar TU Delft

Who am I?

• e-learning consultant for Shared Service Centre ICT

• Projects I am involved:• Blackboard (Administrator and project leader)• Educational Repository• Social Software (mainly weblogs and wikis)•OpenCourseWare

• Blog on www.e-learn.nl• Twitter on twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg


Content

• What is OpenCourseWare?• OCW-models• How to create a OCW-website?


1.What is OpenCourseWare


What is OpenCourseWare?

•MIT started in 2001 with two main objectives:•“Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's

course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.“

•“Create an efficient, standards-based model that other institutions may emulate to openly share and publish their own course materials."


What is OCW?

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

• An ocw is a collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses

• An ocw is not a distance-learning initiative: there are no degrees granted and in most cases no student/faculty interactions

• OCW materials are there for the taking and for transformation.


OCW part of the Open Movement

• 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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Open Content

Open Educational Resources

OCW


2.OCW-models


multiple institutions

Different OCW-models

content focus

community focus

single institution


Content centered – single institution• Original model introduced by MIT• Publish mainly existing material• Publication takes time• All content is approved

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Content centered – multiple institution• Model used by nationwide initiative• Differences:

• Only promoting OCW• Funding and facilitating• Aggregate all the local websites

• Examples:• EduNet Vietnam• Japan OCW• Turkisch OCW Consortium

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Community centered – single institution• Not all the content is owned by the institution• Individuals can contribute and remix

• Examples:• LabSpace from OpenUniversity UK• Connexions (although this is more OER-focused)

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• Multiple institutions working together with learners in a community creating courses

• Examples:• OCW Consortium?

Community centered – multiple institution


3.How to create a OCW-website?


What technology to use?

OCW Platforms available• Open Sources

• eduCommons• Moodle• Sakai• Connexions

• Proprietary LMS• Content Management

System

• Or your own flavor

Factors to include

•Your publishing goals•Existing systems

infrastructure•Existing publication

processes•Number of end users•Budgets

OCW Platform Comparison


Interoperability

• OCWFinder.org is a search engine for OCW-courses

• To aggregate all the courses we use RSS-feeds (more info)


Translations

• Translating other courses to own language • eg. CORE

• Translating own courses to other languages

• eg. Universia


“In order for open education to reach its varied potentials, openness must become a core cultural value for each and every faculty member.” David Wiley


OCW.tudelft.nl

OCWconsortium.org

Willem van [email protected]/wfvanvalkenburg