Presentation at the workshop Opening up education from TECY (Technology Education Culture Youth) in Paris, 20-12-2013

1. Open Education:
Global Trends and Developments
Robert Schuwer

2. Agenda
• UNESCO chairs on OER
• What is Open Education?
• What is happening in the world?
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3. UNESCO Chair on OER
• Fred Mulder (at the Open Universiteit in the
Netherlands)
• Rory McGreal (also COL Chair, at Athabasca
University, Canada)
• Wayne Macintosh (also COL Chair, at Otago
Polytechnic, New Zealand)
• Tel Amiel (at State University of Campinas /
UNICAMP, Brazil)
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4. Plan of Action
• Main Action lines
– Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)
– OER Knowledge Cloud
– OER university
– K-12
• Cross cutting activities
– Mapping
– Capacity development
– Non-English language
– Expansion of number of chairs
– OpenUpEd MOOCS global
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5. GO-GN Network
• Global OER Graduate Network
• PhD researchers and their supervisors
• Services
• http://portal.ou.nl/en/web/go-gn
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6. WHAT IS
OPEN EDUCATION?
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7. What is education?
• More than just resources
• More than canned
lectures
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8. The 5COE model of Open Education
Mulder & Janssen
Educational resources
Learner
needs
Employability &
Capabilities Development
Demand
Open
Education
Services
Supply
Teaching efforts
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Source: http://www.surf.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/TrendReportOER2013.aspx

9. Institutional fingerprint of openness
0%
Degree of openness
100%
Learning resources
Services
Teaching efforts
Learner needs
Empl. & Cap. Developm.
Example of institutional profile (all learning resources as OER)
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10. Openness and Open Education supply
Learning resources
•Open in place
•Open in time
•Open in pace
•Open in program
•Open admission
Open
Education
“classical”
•Freely available
•Open for adaptation:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute
“digital”
Not for free per se!
Services
Teaching effort

11. Open Educational Resources (OER) /
Open Courseware (OCW)
Learning resources
•Open in place
•Open in time
•Open in pace
•Open in program
•Open admission
•Freely available
•Open for adaptation:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute
OER/
OCW
Services
Teaching effort

12. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Learning resources
•Open in place
•Open in time
•Open in pace
•Open in program
•Open admission
•Freely available
•Open for adaptation:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute
MOOC
•Forum
•Feedback
•Exam
•Certificate
•Teacher
•Tutor
Services
Teaching effort

13. xMOOC
Week 1
Week 2
…
Week n
n = 5 - 10
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Exam

14. xMOOC, een week
Video 1
Video 2
…
Video m Homework
8 – 15 minutes
Feedback

15. xMOOC, one week
Video 1
Video 2
…
Video m Huiswerk
Feedback
Take
Question
Take
Question

16. Why Open Education?
Estimates from 2009 predict
a worldwide increase in
demand for higher education
of 98M students in 2025
To realize this, each week
four new universities should
start in the next 15 years.
source:
http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2012presentations/Pages/2012-04-12.aspx
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17. Why Open Education?
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18. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
THE WORLD?
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19. National policies
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20. Organisations
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21. MOOC suppliers (oktober 2013)
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22. MOOC participants
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Source: http://bit.ly/1bfu6FZ

23. MOOC participation worldwide
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Source: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/mapping-courseras-global-footprint

24. OER: no regret for government
• Threefold responsibility for government regarding
education
– Accessible
– Quality
– Efficiency
• In a sustainable manner
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25. OER: iron triangle
Starting situation
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Source: Fred Mulder
Increased efficiency
OER situation

26. FINALLY
Ceterum censeo materia facta tributo oblatum esse gratuito
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27. Thank you!
www.robertschuwer.nl
Robert.Schuwer@ou.nl
@fagottissimo
linkedin.com/in/robertschuwer
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