The OER universitas (#OERu)

Anthony Mackintosh

Wayne Mackintosh

Smart philanthropy: Open Online Courses & Learner Mobility

The OER Foundation

The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation

is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that

provides leadership, networking and support for

educators and educational institutions to achieve

their objectives through open education.

“OER is a sustainable

and renewable

resource”

WikiEducator

We're turning

the digital divide

into digital

dividends using

free content

and open

networks. We

hope you can

help us.

Voted best educational

wiki, Steven Downes,

Dec 2007

Inaugural recipient of the

award for Exemplary Open

Education Resource

(OER) practices

A return to tradition?

WE MUST BE FREE

WE MUST BE OPEN

Woodleywonderworks, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1291468732/

Share, Remix, Reuse “Legitimate plagiarism? ”

Crossroads for online futures

Dominic Alves http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/1127762669/

It's dangerous to predict the future but …

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Crossroads for online futures

Dominic Alves http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/1127762669/

Researching the future is hard but …

Slide 10

Disruptive innovation?

WE MUST BE FREE

WE MUST BE OPEN

The fundamentals

stay the same … just

the way we do

business changes.”

Kungfuman http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kodachrome_200.jpg

June 22, 2009, Kodak announced Kodachrome would no longer be manufactured.

Findicons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camera_Icon.png

ElementaryTechTeacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855946@N08/3264547221/

Innovation & new technology

Ice harvesting

Once the largest industry in America In 1850 – invention of “artificial” ice makers

(Reusable) digital learning resources

Ice harvesting or new innovation?

Red Open Education herrings

RED HERRING

“rhetorical tactic

of diverting

attention away from

an item of

significance” Wikipedia

Andrew Gray http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimgray/2237055822/

Laurel Russwurm http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurelrusswurm/4132122784/#/

The sky is falling

Poor quality

(a.k.a poor quality materials are embarrassing)

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“Selling content” is not core university business

A brief history of open in HE

Anthony Mackintosh

1946

1969

1980s

1858 Examination only degrees

1st Single-mode distance teaching university

1st Open university

Open Learning

Free and Open Source Software

2000s Open Content

Open Licensing

Open Educational Resources

Open Access / Open Research

2008 Open Teaching (1st MOOC)

2007 Open Educational Practices

2012 Open Policy (UNESCO Paris OER declaration)

2010 OERu (International)

OERTest (Europe)

2014 Open Learner Mobility, Open Quality, Open HE Cooperation Alan Cleaver

http://flic.kr/p/9a21aJ

Smart philanthropy

Luis Argerich http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3029485203 James Cridland http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/2272701122 James Cridland http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/2272701122

Asenat29 http://www.flickr.com/photos/72153088@N08/6510934443/

Giving is receiving Parallel learning universe|New business

Unsatisfied demand for HE

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/sizes/m/in/photostream/

100 million additional places By 2025

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The OER university concept

Adapted from Taylor 2007

Free learning opportunities for all students worldwide

OER & the sustainable disaggregation of services

Traditional university package OERu package

Partners

MENON Network (Belgium) | University of Leister (UK) | UNIR Universidad La Rioja (Spain) | University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) | UAM (Mexico) | Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (Russia) OER Foundation (New Zealand) | Athabasca University (Canada) | Universitas Siswa Bangsa International (Indonesia)

Consortium of 9 institutes from 9 countries

Aims

Håkan Dahlström http://flic.kr/p/6XWQww

Objective 1: To map the state of the art of MOOCs and VM developments and to identify successful cooperation patterns

Objective 2: To foster sharing of knowledge, tools, practices around MOOCs, VM and their impact on HE internationalisation

Objective 3: To mainstream working practices of MOOCs and VMs as a way towards 21st academic cooperation

Elektroholunder http://flic.kr/p/2fzubu Shioshvili http://flic.kr/p/e6nUW

● Regional / national reports ● 7 fact-finding seminars (UK, Mexico, Brazil,

New Zealand, Russia & Canada) ● Produce a map of practices & challenges

● Create umbrella repository for open education and virtual mobility tools

● 6 Collaboration webinars on contribution of MOOCs and VM to issues like employability, quality assurance, credit recognition, course articulation and joint degrees

● International conference in Brussels ● Recommendations for universities, networks

and policy makers ● Project publication

Policy flavours for OER and VM futures

Wicker Paradise http://flic.kr/p/e3C7cR

What are the issues and challenges?

Sergio Russo http://flic.kr/p/9BDLD XNAHandkor http://flic.kr/p/67JkdD

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

Credit transfer and course articulation

Quality assurance

● Cross border compatibility of national/regional systems ● Cottage industry / lack of standardisation

● Scalability challenges ● Expensive (when compared to ratio of tuition fees)

● Not designed for disaggregated OER systems ● Specific requirements for OER systems

Research on accrediting learners using OER

Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) study on assessment and accreditation using OER (Rory McGreal, Wayne Mackintosh, Dianne Conrad)

TOUCANS, SCORE Fellowship project, University of Leicester: Testing the OERu Concept and Aspirations: a National Study (Gabi Witthaus)

OERu Context Evaluation Study, Australian Digital Futures Institute (Angela Murphy)

Download: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

Drawing on three studies

Key findings and outputs

OER courses + disaggregated services = Affordable access

No material policy barriers – reuse existing assessment practices

Six scenarios to inform future planning

Blending BIG & small

juicyverve http://www.flickr.com/photos/juicyverve/2531105062/

micro Open Online Courses (mOOCs)

Micro credentials

Parallel mode delivery

Francisca Uloa http://www.flickr.com/photos/alosojos/346887379/

Jimmy Flink http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyroq/146827389/

bucklava http://www.flickr.com/photos/9229859@N02/2762432629/

Individualised curriculum

OERu personal learning environment

Blending with parallel mode delivery

Institutional LMS

Open web

Blending modes of participation

Personal interest (Sip & dip)

Peer support for all learners

Pink Sherbet Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/233228813/ Fdecomite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/2361500377/in/photostream/

3 ways to engage in an OERu mOOC

Certification for participation (Digital badge)

Academic credit (Micro-credential)

Blending an OERu mOOC within a postgrad course

SP4Ed 13.07: 121 Participants from 32+ countries (incl. 20 University of Canterbury postgrads)

SP4Ed 13.05 (Prototype): 50 Participants from 14+ countries

SP4Ed 13.07: Participation from all interaction sources was 62% - 200% better than SP4Ed 13.05

Estimated average page views for all tutorial pages per registered participant

SP4Ed 13.07: Average No. of blog posts per poster 5.78 (6 comprehensive E-Activities)

Free learning for all students worldwide

“This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable.” Jim Taylor AM

You are free to join us ...

Paul (Dex) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dexxus/3146028811/

Compilation: Chad Miller, James Almond, Wayne Mackintosh

See: http://wikieducator.org/File:OER-University-concept.png

Crossing the open education chasm

Sharing to LEARN | learning to Share

Open questions?