open education consortium - advancing openness in education worldwide

Open Education Consortium – advancing

openness in education worldwide

Presentation at OER: Impact and Outcomes Conference, 8-9

December 2014, Paris, France

igorlesko@oeconsortium.org

Twitter: @igor_lesko

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by Igor Lesko is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Nelson Mandela(1918-2013)

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to

change the world.”

Worldwide Participation in Higher Education is

Expected to Grow ~60% by 2025…

2011 2025

Worldwide Participants in Tertiary Education, 2011 and 2025 Projected

In order to

accommodate these

98 million new

students, four major

universities of

30,000+ students

would need to open

every week for the

next 15 years

Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-world/2001128.article; OECD indicators Education

at a Glance 2012 and Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution, UNESCO 2009

165M

263M

Rising Cost of Education/Decreasing Public

Funding

By mrchrisadams (CCBY-NC) By marsmet471 (CCBY-NC-SA)

However…

Since 2001 Advancements through:

- OER Movement

- OA Movement

- Open Education Movement

- and others…

Coupled with developments in ICTs – access to resources anytime,

anywhere

However…

Changing realities and Creating opportunities for innovations in

Teaching & Learning, new forms of assessment/validation of learning,

improved quality, retention and more...

Not just in formal higher education

- Life-long learners

- Unemployed/working professionals

- Self-learners

Opening up Education firmly on the agendas of

International Organizations

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1389115469384&uri=CELEX:52013DC0654

http://goo.gl/OVHiF

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/implementing-the-paris-oer-declaration/

http://goo.gl/44G4Thttp://www.francophonie.org/

…and Governments

http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/ai1ec_event/openingupslovenia/?instance_id=446& http://www.ouslovenia.net/

www.openscot.net

http://www.che.ac.za/media_and_publications/legislation/white-paper-post-school-education-and-training (p. 54).

http://goo.gl/2LBFD

http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/province-offers-money-open-textbookshttp://www.universites-numeriques.fr/ocw/index.html

Name Change: OCWC - OEC

What is Open Education?

Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that

employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access

and effectiveness worldwide.

Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and

creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly

shared educational resources, while harnessing today’s collaborative

spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to

learner’s needs.

http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/

Who We Are

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of

higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to

advancing open education and its impact on global education

http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/

Members in France

More than 30 000 OER/OCW produced by OEC members

since 2006

http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/

Why Focusing on opening up access to content as

OER/OCW?

OER = important foundational block upon which innovations can be

built

Examples of Impact

User Feedback Survey

Source: OCWC Feedback Survey March 2011 - May 2013

Responses received from 1773 respondents (90 countries). Nearly 50% of respondents

were students undergoing secondary or university-level education. Working professionals

represented 22% of all respondents.

http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/surveyresults/

Examples of Impact

FGV Online Open & Free Courses

Source: OCWC – FGV Online Survey March 2013

• Initiated in 2008: 43 open courses

• Research project (OCWC – FGV Online) with respondents having completed courses between

2008-2012

• 7671 responses received

Examples of Impact

Impact of Openness on Institutions

What we do online is starting to be used in the classroom on campus. For the first time,

professors are starting to think about concepts like flipping the classroom and applying it. We

want to better use online materials in our regular Education and we want to offer our program

to lifelong learners (LLL) (Anka Mulder, TU Delft).

OCW was definitely a huge paradigm shift. In fact it is part of our mission to share what we

have produced with the rest of the world. (Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT).

People who have contributed to the open content have benefitted themselves by being visible

on an international platform. Also the Higher Education Commission recommends that, in case

of shortage of qualified manpower, institutions should use the VUP courses to supplement

their offerings. For example, there is one institution that uses 14 VUP courses in their Bachelor

program (Naveed Malik, VUP).

http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/impact-of-openness-on-institutions/

Advocacy and Awarennes: Open Education Week 20159-13 March, 2015

Call for Participation is open: http://www.openeducationweek.org/

CFP closes: 10 February 2015

Advocacy and Awarennes: Open Education Global

Conference 201522-24 April, 2015

Call for Proposals is open: http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

Deadline: 10 December 2014

Special Projects:

• Open Education Information Center:

– Central place for information on open education including links to resources,

how-tos, reports, discussion areas, calendar of open education events worldwide

and more (to be launched in January).

• Open Education Professional Directory

– A searchable index of experienced professionals in open education.

• OpenMOOCs – OECx through partnership with edX (Opportunities

for OEC members)

– Conditions: MOOCs must be created from exiting open content, openly licensed

and downloadable from institutional websites. Objective to see how OER can be

used to create MOOCs more efficiently. Webinars will be run next year on this

topic. Next series of MOOCs (2015) - around specific topic areas such as

teacher training.

Open Education Professional Directory

http://www.oeconsortium.org/directory/

OpenMOOCs - OECx

https://www.edx.org/school/oecx

Consultancies

OER Professional Fellows

• The US State Department and the Arab League partnered to form the Open Book

project

• Objectives: to localize OER for the MENA region and encourage Arab language OER

production

• OEC one of the organizations asked to help coordinate and participate in the Project.

OER Professional Fellows exchange, set up in support of the Project,

involves 3 phases:

Phase 1: 14 professors and administrators from across the MENA region

selected to participate in a 3-week visit to the US to learn about OER and

participated in short internships. OEC coordinated the visit.

Consultancies

OER Professional Fellows

Following return to their countries participants took various steps to

promote OER in their countries – workshops, trainings, conference

presentations or creating national OER plans.

Phase 2: OER professionals (2 out of 3 affiliated with OEC) going to the MENA

region for meetings with ALESCO, universities, educators and ministries to

promote participation in open education. Workshops in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia,

Jordan, Qatar.

Consultancies

OER Professional Fellows

Outcome of Phase 2: Working closely with ALESCO to support their OER plan

for the region and working with various universities to help them get started

on OER. ALESCO is planning to attend Open Education Global Conference

2015 in Canada to present their OER plan.

Phase 3: OEC, Creative Commons with representatives from Saudi Arabia and

Jordan to give a workshop and discuss OER during ALESCO Forum in Dubai

(18-22 December 2014).

For more information contact Mary Lou Forward: mlforward@oeconsortium.org

Consultancies

Saudi Arabian eLearning professional training

OEC will be coordinating a yearlong comprehensive training program in open

and technology enhanced learning for 50 female Saudi professors and

administrators. The training will take place during face-to-face workshops in the

US and Saudi Arabia, during online webinars and will incorporate internships in the US.

For more information contact Mary Lou Forward: mlforward@oeconsortium.org

Campus Virtual de las Americas (CVA)

CVA was created by the Organization of American States (OAS) through their

Foundation Virtual Educa & collaboration with OEC. It aims to offer high quality

educational resources in Spanish (OER); develop pathways for topics of

common interest in the LA region (Admin, Safety, English, etc); offer

certifications & strengthen the Network. For more information contact Marcela Morales: marcela@oeconsortium.org

Join Us

• The education landscape is rapidly changing as a result of

the digital revolution

• Education is becoming increasingly global, accessible, and

interconnected

• Open Education Consortium is at the forefront of this

movement as a truly global network for open education

• We invite you to be part of this conversation

Join us today and help shape the future of education

For more information and to become a member, visit

www.oeconsortium.org/members

Thank you for your attention!

igorlesko@oeconsortium.org

Twitter: @igor_lesko