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2009/HRDWG31/071 Item: Plenary 4.4

Open Educational and Training Resources

Purpose: Information Submitted by: United States

31st Human Resources Development Working Group Meeting

Chicago, United States 22-25 June 2009

Open Educational and Training Resources

APEC HRDWG: June 22, 2009

Marshall S. Smith

What is OER?• High quality educational content and tools• Open and free to all on the Web• Usable and reusable• All languages – all devices• Part of a growing culture of openness and sharing

Three great strengths of OER

• Open (Free) for all on the web. ACCESS. 

• Open for downloading, using and sharing. USE 

• Reuse: modify, build, collaborate: CREATION

–Personalization, cooperation, cultural and linguistic appropriateness

ALL LEAD TO IMPROVED ACCESS, INSTRUCTION, AND LEARNING.  

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Examples of OERs

Open…CourseWare…courses…books…simulations..journals… images…video lectures…gamestextbooks…podcasts…lesson plansencyclopedias..heavens..portals 

Efforts throughout world…Vietnam, China, India, Europe, South America Africa, United States, Canada, Brazil, …

Universities, K‐12 schools, libraries, publishing companies, governments, public television, hi‐tech companies, museums, individuals …

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Teaching and Learning Innovation–Phase 1

Carnegie Mellon: Accelerating learning with 24/7 personalized 

cognitive tutors.

“MIT OCW opens up knowledge across the world…and it allows universities like ours to benchmark our teaching assures the students that they are receiving high-quality instruction.”

- François Viruly, South Africa

• 90 universities publish OCW: 70 affiliates organizations• 7800 courses, 1000 translated into 9+ languages• 2.5 ‐ 3 million visits/month

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Accelerated Learning: Cognitively Informed Web‐ based Instruction

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Phase II: USE, Reuse and Create, Maintain and Share High Quality Materials

Fast feedback loops that engage rapid cycles of improvement of teaching materials

ContentJ

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Open, dynamic textbooks

• Imagine textbooks constructed by professionals on line for free and open for use on line, partial and full printing and use.  

• Reuse and improve.  Teachers could  update, modify, amplify, embed original materials and challenging tasks, link to related subjects.  

• Teachers could provide feedback to developers about strong and weak parts of the textbook generating a continuous improvement cycle for all users. 

Can become course software

• At some point on‐line, open textbooks that are actively adapted become learning programs. 

• Embed formative assessments and feedback loops creating the beginning of a cognitive tutor. 

• Embed communication tools for connecting students working on same material and study groups emerge.

• Teachers focus on coaching, tutoring, challenging!

• Keep track of what works – modify to improve and create a powerful learning experience.  

Open Materials for Supplemental & Lifelong Learning

Give choices and control over when, where, and how to learn – credit for performance!

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• Open access to a massive library of knowledge for all• Learn structured education material anytime, 

anywhere, and on any device• User‐centric improvement of education materials  • Accelerate learning  ‐‐ learn 2 – 3 times faster• Provide credit for performance on examinations to anyone. 

• Motivate students by learning to be professionals  • Promote creativity, problem solving, control of learning  through 

games, immersive environments

Learning = f(Content, Motivation, Time) x Technology

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lifelong learning/adults

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A new Challenge

• How do we make some of these changes?

Open Education/Training Project

• The US proposes a self‐funded project to: – Begin building an APEC library of very high quality higher education and training OER courses in the priority areas:

• Vocational Training

• Language Learning

• Math and science

– To examine the effects of OER on educational practices from participating Economies

US Self‐Funded Project Design

global OER repository:high‐quality materials available free to anyone, anywhere, at any time

open to contributions from authors worldwide

XML technology enables remix into customized web courses  and inexpensive print textbooks 

peer review for quality control

Creative Commons attribution license enables commercial use and sustainability