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OpenCourseWare in EuropeHow to Make Use of Its Full Potential

for Virtual Mobility11 december 2012

Willem van Valkenburg

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Please attribute Willem van Valkenburg – OpenCourseWare Europe

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Willem van Valkenburg

Projectleader TU Delft OpenCourseWare

Assistant to the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium

Projectleader EU-project OCW in the European HE context

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Agenda

• Introduction• What is Open…• Why Open Education• OpenCourseWare• Europe?

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What is “Open”?

• Free• Shared• Choices• Ability to adapt• Cost effective• Ability to tailor & build

your own• Creative Commons• Freedom of info and use

• Quality assurance• Varied availability by

disciplines• Available to anybody• Digital• Often multimedia• Accessibility—more

accessible to some and less to others

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OCW part of the Open Movement

Open Content

Open Educational Resources

OCW

• OCW is only one type of Open

Educational Resource (OER).

• OERs are only one type of

Open Content.

• We have much to share with

each other.

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What are Open Educational Resources?

• Shared educational materials• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and

modification • Available to anyone via the internet (and often

other means)David Wiley 4R’s:Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with othersRevise – adapt and editRemix – combine with others

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What is OpenCourseWare?

• High quality educational materials organized as courses

A course is package of educational materials starting a particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to greater understanding of the issue or topic

• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and modification, available to all on the internet

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What is a MOOC?

• Massive • Open• Online• Course

Image CC-BY-NC Gordon Lockhart:http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/

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What is Open Education?

• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:

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Comparing

TRADITIONAL

OPEN COURSE WARE

OPEN EDUCATION ONLINE EDUCATION

ACCESS Tuition fee Open Open

Tuition fee

STUDENT INTERACTION

Yes, mostly offline

No Yes, online learning platform & social media

Yes, online learning platform & social media

INTERACTION

WITH LECTURERS

Yes No Yes, online learning platform & social media

Yes, online learning platform & social media

EXAMS Yes Yes, but self testing

Yes, online Yes, online and on campus

CERTIFICATES Yes, accredited

No Yes, non accredited Yes, accredited

DIPLOMA Yes, accredited

No No Yes, accredited

Translated from http://www.e-learn.nl/2012/07/06/onderwijs-in-de-online-wereld

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Why Open Education Matters

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Why be Open? Global Benefits

Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA

Washington’s Open Course Library

A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses

a worldwide community of hundreds of institutions committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. >20k courses published

TU Delft content is used at ITB Bandung to educate students about water

Watermanagement

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advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

to advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

Our mission

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Over 260 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education

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• ~260 members

• ~170 live OCW sites

• ~20,000 courses

http://www.ocwconsortium.org

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Activities of TU Delft

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Characteristics of our OERs

Blackboard

Digital learning environment

Collegerama

lecture recordings

OpenCourseWare

Free accessible courses

iTunes U/Youtube Edu

Open Educational Resources

Context

(course)

No context

(single

resources)

internal

external

Motives to start OpenCourseWare

• Moral obligation • growing demand in higher education worldwide 2012-2025: 80 million!

• Quality• improve our materials, teaching methods

• World Class University• to be there with the other top universities

• Innovation• digital and online education inevitable

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Use and Re-use of OCW

• Choice of Study

• Stumble Courses

• Prepare International Students

• Use in Developing Countries

• Source of Reference

• Extracurricular education

• Online Education

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