advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. OER and its Impact on Teaching Practices Meena Hwang, Director of Community Outreach OpenCourseWare Consortium UNESCO IITE Conference Nov. 16 th , 2010
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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.
OER and its Impact on Teaching Practices
Meena Hwang, Director of Community Outreach OpenCourseWare Consortium
UNESCO IITE Conference Nov. 16th, 2010
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
I. What is OCW
II. Impact on Teaching Practices
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
Open Educational Resources
“digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research”
UNESCO’s 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the Hewlett Foundation
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
Examples of OER “collections”
• Open Textbooks• Open Journals• Videolectures.net• Open Learning Initiative • Connexions• OpenCourseWare
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
So, what is OpenCourseWare?
• A particular kind of Open Educational Resource, a particular kind of “collection”
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
So, what is OpenCourseWare?
• High quality educational materials organized as courses
• Openly licensed for distribution, re‐use and modification, available to all on the internet
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
Open TextbookPeer review/evaluationFaculty feedback
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Collaboration : Inter-institutional
Jasper Verberk’s OpenCourseWare videos on water management course-Collaborative project with ITB Bandung of Indonesia to develop the core curriculum to be used in Indonesia. -Local lecturers contribute to the course with local contents
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Collaboration : Inter-institutional
OER Health University of Michigan OER Africa
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Ghana
University of Cape Town University of the Western Cape
University of Malawi’s Kamuzu College of Nursing University of Botswana
Health Education and Training in Africa Project of the Open University
University of Nairobi
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Collaboration : Inter-governmental
African Virtual University- Open and Distance eLearning Centers- Teacher Education Project- OER Repository
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Collaboration
Decrease faculty time on materials developmentEvaluate curriculum and teaching stylesIdentify ‘general’ lessonsStrengthen teaching and curricular alignment
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Offering more to the students
UC Berkeley Webcast
- supplement to learning- grassroots initiative
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
November 24, 2010 OCW Consortium
Re-purposing the material
APTIKOM : an association of 700 computer science departments
NEXXUS: collaborative project with the Ministry of Education to translate and repurpose OCW materials to meet the needs of lifelong education
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.
OER philosophy
“Resources that are to be shared, built upon, re-shaped, re-purposed – and then returned to the commons to be available for the same exercise to take place over again”.
Susan D’Antoni, UNESCO OER programme Cambridge International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, 2009
advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.