By: Dr. Andreas Meiszner & Ruediger Glott, United Nations University UNU-MERIT – The Netherlands. Elmar Husmann, ELIG – European Learning Industry Group Workshop on “The Why and How of Open Education: Service Concepts and Provider Perspectives” 15th MindTrek Conference and the International Academic Conference | 30 of September, Tampere – Finnland

1. ‘The Why and How of Open Education‘
Session Two: Service organization, business and sustainability
options – With findings from the 2011 ELIG OE survey
By: Dr. Andreas Meiszner & Ruediger Glott, United Nations University UNU-MERIT – The Netherlands. Elmar Husmann, ELIG –
European Learning Industry Group
Workshop on “The Why and How of Open Education: Service Concepts and Provider Perspectives”
15th MindTrek Conference and the International Academic Conference | 30 of September, Tampere – Finnland

2. Open Education and OEaaS – an industry perspective

3. Open Education and OEaaS – the academic perspective

4. Open Education and OEaaS – academia vs. industry perspective

5. Open Education and OEaaS – academia vs. industry: the
commons
Open Education and OEaaS is:
• As well Paid for as it is for Free…
• Open, Public, Available, Accessible, Shareable, Re-usable,…
• Innovative, Creative, Collaborative, Flexible, Useful,…
• About Empowerment, Opportunities, Sustainability…
• Scary, Confusing, faces Resource Scarcity, might be ‘poor or
‘cheap’

6. Open Education and OEaaS – potential opportunities for the
learning industry ‘seen as by today’

7. Possible learning industry OE portfolios

8. Open Education and OEaaS – predicted value chain by the
learning industry

9. The future of Open Education and OEaaS from the learning
industry perspective

10. Possible pathways for the learning industry to approach OE and OEaaS
To continue a productive discourse between the OE community and the rest of
the learning industry for the benefit of both. The key to a productive discourse
would include:
• The commercial learning industry to appreciate the innovation opportunities, the
new cultural and behavioural aspects of OE and to focus on the pragmatic,
business strategic and sustainable elements of OE rather than stressing
ideological differences.
• The OE community to become aware of the potential business requirements,
threats and commercial factors associated with OE in order to drive commercial
attention, funding and support to OE.
• A dialogue on the level of pragmatic collaboration opportunities, funding
schemes and business models.
• A dialogue with policy makers on funding schemes and procurement policies
– e.g. in the public educational sector - that would better support OE commercial
activities and not implicitly regard OE as non-commercial.

11. Open Education as a Service – Guiding Questions

12. Thank you for your attention!
Elmar Husmann
ELIG – European Learning Industry Group
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Dr. Andreas Meiszner,
United Nations University
UNU-MERIT
meiszner@merit.unu.edu