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UNESCO/COLChair in Open Education Resources
Elearn AfricaMay 2011Rory McGreal
Sponsors
CommunityAdjustmentFund
Partners
Rory McGreal Fred Mulder
UNESCO Chairholders in OER Partners
OER in Africa
Gender Equality
Youth
Networking
Capacity Building
Research
Rural & remote communities
Susan D’Antoni
OERs for Development Goal of developing together a universal
educational resource available for the whole of humanity… hope that this open resource for the future mobilizes the whole of the worldwide community of educators”
UNESCO 2002
+2 billion Internet connexionsWorld population: 6.8 billion
¼ of the world’s population
http://www.soil-net.com/album/Places_Objects/slides/Globe%20Planet%20Earth%20NASA.jpg
4.5 billion mobile device subscriptions
1.5 billion mobile internet users
1/3 only access internet via mobile
90% of world population is covered by cellular
Mobile Learning
The world is going mobile
OER Quality measures• brand or reputation• peer review• user ratings• use indicators• validation,• self-evaluation
OER Quality measures• Sharability• Timeliness• Reach (number of users), • Usability (license restrictions), • Accessibility.
OER Quality: Cost sharing
• Cost sharing
OER Quality: Timely Updating
OER Quality: Accessibility
OER Quality: Type of Licence
GNU
OER Quality: Number of Learners
20 or 2 million?
Quality: What to measure?
• Materials?• Context?• Outcomes?• Competencies?
Culturally Appropriate OER’s
• “e-learning courses are cultural artifacts, embedded with the cultural values, preferences, characteristics, and nuances of the culture that designed them, and inherently creating challenges for learners from other cultures.” Edmunsdon, 2009
UNESCO OER Community
• OER Wiki• OER Discussion
group• International
Wayne Macintosh
OER University Concept
Jim Taylor
California?Washington?
Jim Taylor
Student mentors?
• Social networks• Students could get 2
credits for a course instead of 3
• Then get 1 additional credit for mentoring the course
Open Curriculum
Students choose what is of interest to them and what meets their professional development needs from the “smorgasbord” of available open courses
designed and based solely on OER
Jim Taylor
• To guarantee the credibility of open scholarship for academic credit, the assessment process must be strictly equivalent to that for mainstream students
• “Open” Assessment must therefore involve payment of a fee (cost recovery only) or a scholarship scheme
“Open” Assessment Services“Open” Assessment Services
Jim Taylor
• Participating institutions willing to grant academic credit for open scholarship must have credible local accreditation
• The overall quality of the “OER University Network” could be enhanced by the endorsement of the
International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education
(INQAAHE)
Open Credential Services Open Credential Services
Jim Taylor
Open Student Support
Internet domain names have been registered for
Academic Volunteers International
Jim Taylor
Funding Models (from Downes, 2007)
• Endowment • Membership • Donation • Producer
• Sponsorship • Govt. funding • Institutional
Internet is the biggest commons
Public domain is a priceless, shared heritage wikimedia
The law locks up the man or womanWho steals the goose from off the commonBut leaves the greater villain looseWho steals the common from off the goose.
Anonymous 1764 or 1821?
Stealing the Goose
turtlemom4bacon
US Bullying
• Intense lobbying • Gunning for
Canada
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=168
Statute of Queen Anne 1710
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning
USA: Copyright Act 1790An Act to Promote the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts
Wedemeyer Award OER texts from Athabasca University Press
www.aupress.ca
Mohamed Ally Ed.
Terry Anderson Ed.
Dietmar Kennepohl & Lawton Shaw
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffer
Mcilvanity
[email protected] Ashanti