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- 1. Professor Asha Kanwar President& CEO, Commonwealth of Learning Open Education Resources (OER): what, why, how? March 26, 2015
- 2. Plan A Decadeof OER Lessons Learned COL Contributions Future Directions
- 3. A DECADE OFOER
- 4. UNESCO HQ Paris 2002Forum on the Impact of Open CourseWare for Higher Education in Developing Countries
- 5. Open Educational Resources(OER) OER are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and in some instances, re-purposing by others Atkins, Brown & Hammond, 2007
- 6. What are OpenEducation Resources (OERs)? Materials that are Free and freely available Suitable for all levels Reusable
- 7. The Virtual Universityfor Small States of the Commonwealth
- 8. World Congress on OpenEducational Resources Paris – June 20-22 – 2012 Paris Declaration
- 9. Photo:CC-BYDavideStorti The 2012 ParisOER Declaration drafting group at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France Paris Declaration on OER Foster awareness and use of OER Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.
- 10. Why OER? Reducescosts Enhance access Improve quality
- 11. Access: Malawi BundaCollege of Agriculture 102 page Communications Skills textbook 75% OER Adapted by adding contextually relevant materials, activities, assignments
- 12. Access: translation CORE COL IDtemplate translated and adapted by Open University of China COL materials in Ukrainian
- 13. Can OER contributeto Quality? 611 institutions in India – KSS Women’s Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh – Maya Devi Educational Foundation, Uttarakhand – Bhilai Institute of Technology, Chattisgarh
- 14. OER and Textbooks USA: Utah Open Textbooks project: $5 per printed and zero for online content South Africa: R 1.5 billion for textbooks: Department of Basic Education decides to develop OER textbooks.
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- 16. WHAT HAVE WELEARNED?
- 17. Surge insecondary education Need for skills development 1. Beyond Higher Education…
- 18. 2. Harnessing thepotential of Mobile technologies Connectivity is less of a concern in Higher Education sector Digital divide still exists at the primary and secondary education levels
- 19. 3. Multi-directional exchanges Universityof Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- 20. 4. Open Licensing:More Advocacy
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- 22. Key trends inOER 2014 Advocacy helps: quantitative increases Developing countries have emerged as significant contributors Policies adopted & implemented: e.g. India, Antigua & Barbuda
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- 24. What does COLdo? Advocacy Policy development Capacity building Publications
- 25. Advocacy Southern AfricaRegional Policy Advocacy Workshop – May 2013 – 11 SADC countries
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- 27. Policy Development: the Caribbean ICT in Education policy developed with COL assistance – April 2013 Integrates specific provisions related to OER – The Ministry of Education will adopt a CC attribution license as the default for all material produced with public funds. – Will encourage all development agencies and foundations operating in Antigua to do the same.
- 28. OER for openschooling (OER4OS) Schools Teachers Consultants Ministries of Education
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- 30. Quality Guidelines forOpen Educational Resources Teaching and learning processes Information and material contents Presentation, products and formats System, technical and technology http://www.cemca.org.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/OERQ_TIPS_978-81-88770-07-6.pdf
- 31. Directory of OpenEducational Resource (DOER) Open Educational Resources directory service Only full courses catalogued A service provided by COL
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- 33. 1. The DigitalDivide (Commonwealth countries) Source: Latest data from International Telecommunications Union Database http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Reporting/DynamicReportWizard.aspx 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Africa Asia Caribbean Europe North America Pacific Proportion of households with Internet access Proportion of households with Computer access
- 34. the network society…. isa major source of the structuration of power relationships. Manuel Castells
- 35. Justin Reich inhttps://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/open-educational-resources-expand-educational- inequalities/ 2. Open Educational Resources Expand Educational Inequalities
- 36. Open Educational ResourcesExpand Educational Inequalities … teachers working in schools serving low income students simply can't make as much use of…. the technology ….. because they lack the planning time, broadband access, etc. In this model, schools with greater fiscal and human resources have more capacity to take advantage of even free and open resources. Justin Reich in https://edutechdebate.org/oer-and-digital-divide/open-educational-resources-expand-educational- inequalities/
- 37. 3. Challenges forStakeholders Teachers: difficult to locate, adapt, and re- purpose OER material relevant to their work. Learners: OER should be more open and multi- modal. Technical support: lack of standard practices in the packaging and re-use of OER. Management: concerns regarding intellectual property; copyright issues and competition OER Survey, Asia, 2011 (WOU, IDRC)
- 38. 4. Involvement ofstakeholders Involving different stakeholders to participate, collaborate, create and share; Encouraging consumers to become the producers of knowledge; Involving teachers and students
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- 40. PNG can Developa dynamic ICT in Education policy Propose a vision and strategy for OER at all levels of education Recognise OER-development at par with academic publications to reward faculty in promotions
- 41. OER Policies SouthAfrica: Draft Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities (Page 28, MHET will establish a Task Team that will play an awareness- raising and advocacy role around the use of OER) Mauritius: Education and Human Resources Strategy Plan 2008-2020 (page 119, 1.3 promote e-learning and Open Educational Resources) India: National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER)
- 42. Institutions can developan OER policy elaborate a policy on copyright provide incentives for faculty members such as increments and recognition of OER- development towards promotions develop a strategy for involving stakeholders
- 43. From your perspective: What are the THREE most pressing challenges for adopting OER? How do you propose to overcome these? What would be your THREE key recommendations in the PNG context?
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