Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCW
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Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCW Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D., Dean of Continuing Education, University of California Irvine OCWC Global 2010
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Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes. The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
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Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCW
Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D., Dean of Continuing Education, University of California Irvine
OCWC Global 2010
INCREASING DEMAND & THE “IRON TRIANGLE
ACCESS
QUALIT
Y
COST
INCREASING DEMAND & THE “IRON TRIANGLE”
ACCESS
QUALIT
Y
COST
More Rigorous Standards
Higher Levels of
Accountability
More Transparency
Greater Consumer Demands
MORE RIGOROUS STANDARDS, INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY OER and OCW will serve the demand for
greater accountability in higher education
MORE RIGOROUS STANDARDS, INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY
ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE REQUIREMENT FOR OCW Texas State Law
H.B. No. 2504: Section 51.974. “Each institution of higher education, other than a medical and dental unit, shall make available to the public on the institution’s Internet website the following information for each undergraduate classroom course offered for credit by the institution.”
MORE RIGOROUS STANDARDS, INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY
Content Management System
DigitalRights
Management
Course Authorin
g Tool
Learning Assessmen
tData
Sources of Content
1. Material from Content Management System
2. Teacher Created• VOP• Flash• Print
3. Open Material
4. Proprietary Material
5. University Owned Material
Course(Learning Object)
Students
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CYCLE
ImprovementContinuous
OER AND OCW AS NATIONAL POLICY
OER AND OCW AS NATIONAL POLICY
OER AND OCW MOVEMENTS HAVE ACHIEVED THE “TIPPING POINT” OCWC course inventory exceeds 13,000 Video lectures/materials on iTunes have
been downloaded over 100 million times YouTube has recorded over 300 million
downloads
Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D.Dean, Continuing
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