Wikiwijs, A public OER initiative as driver for educational innovation

10th of March 2017

Introductions

Jan-Bart de Vreede

Domain manager Learning Materials and Metadata of the Kennisnet Foundation.

Served on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees for 9 years.

Disclaimer

The Netherlands is fortunate in that our government has been investing in ICT in education for a long time (and also in that we have had the financial ability to do so)

And not just focusing on technology, but also adoption and effective use.

Allowing us to build the infrastructure that serves as a strong foundation for use of ICT in education.

About Kennisnet

The Dutch public foundation charged with ensuring effective use of ICT technology within Primary, Secondary and Vocational Educational Institutions.

Both facilitating the educational process as well as the other (administrative) processes within the institutions.

Two branches:

1) Expertise

2) Services

A little background

• Primary and Secondary Education is mostly “method-driven”.

• Public schools have ”Freedom of education”

• Dominated by a few (relatively) large players

• Small market = no large budgets for innovation

• Methods leave little room for teacher ownership

• Vocational institutions often have their own (open) methods

A Market in Turmoil

• Changing Education

• Changing roles of existing players

• New Players

• Adaptive Learning Technology

• Student Dashboards

Our challenge: facilitate innovation

It is not Open versus ClosedRealistically the mix between open and closed content is the biggest opportunity in the Netherlands

This allows both to become more effective in meeting the individual students needs.

Using open standards for all components to make the content easily available to (commercial) partners.

Importance of OER for Dutch Education

Serves the students better

Teacher Ownership

Not Cost!

Better Variety of Content

And Innovation

Innovation

Educational Chain of Educational Materials

Classic version

Publisher Book Distributor Student

Teachers

Educational Chain of Educational Materials

Changing Landscape

StudentsPublishers LMS/ELO

TeacherOnline Resources

LINK!

LINK!

LINK!

Educational Chain of Educational Materials

What we are working towards

StudentsPublishers LMS/ELO

Teacher

Online Resources

OER Platform(Wikiwijs)

LINK

Links

Results

Content

Content & Feedback

TeacherCommunity

OEPCommunity

What infrastructure?Primary Elements

Supporting Elements

Authoring Sharing Labeling Discoverable Remixable

Wikiwijs Create WikiwijsReposittory

Metadata Tools EdurepSearch Portals

If open then downloadable in open standard

Authentication Resultsfeedback

Metadata Devices in the classroom

CommunityBuilding

KennisnetFederation

Open Standardexchange of learning results

Standards for learning goals&API

Expertise Support for (OEP) community with their own quality benchmarks

All these are “plugable” pieces of the chainWhich can be used individually

Labeling

Creation

(Access/Identity)

Discovery/SearchMetadata

Use(Re-use)

Some examples of innovation in the landscape

VO-Content• Content Creation for secondary schools using CC-BY-SA

license on Wikiwijs Platform

• 7 euro’s per student per year to be a participating school

• 102 school years of materials currently available

• Actively working with Online Learning Environments

• Core lessons

Mixing open and clopsed• First collaborations between the closed and open space

for working together on making more content available.

• (part of a dutch breakthrough project funded by the ministry)

• The challenge is clarity of learning goals

Fort Europa

A cross publisher dashboard(uses open standard for result exchange but it is a closed platform)

Multi-Challenged Students• An example of a portal for a very niche branche.

• For the first time teachers are exchanging not just links, but entire lessons

The Holy Grail

When schools are able to create their own “Learning Lines”, combining open and closed by being able to buy only those parts that they need from commercial publishers and combine it with open material while having clear insight into the learning goals.

Thank you!J.devreede@kennisnet.nl