Presentation introducing open education to the Professional Fellows exchange program delegates from the Middle East and North Africa

1. Open Sharing, Global Benefits
The OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org

2. Who we are

3. ~300 members from around the world

4. We exist to support open education in higher ed

5. A Powerful Idea
To advance formal and informal learning
worldwide through the sharing and use of
free, open, high quality education materials

8. • Education builds the future.
• Education is sharing.
• Open allows more rapid building
and sharing at a larger scale.
Open Education starts with basic ideas:

9. Open Education
Terms
Open Educational Resources
OpenCourseWare
Open Educational Practice
Open Textbooks
= Free and Open

10. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

11. OER are teaching, learning, and research
materials that permit their free use and
re-purposing by others.
Open Educational Resources (OER)

12. OER are building blocks for
innovation in higher education
bdesham http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623

13. OER Allows
Higher Education
to reconsider
approaches to teaching
and learning

14. Faculty do it all  Faculty don’t have to do it all
By Luther College Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/luthercollegearchives/1485877774/ CC-BY-NC-ND

15. Resources can come from everywhere
Interactivity and learning support can come
from anywhere

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/usaid_images/6462458071/CC-BY-NC-SA by USAID images

18. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

19. How do faculty use resources
from the internet in their
courses?

22. Conditions CC licenses
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives

24. most free
Most restrictive

26. Wikipedia: Over 77,000 contributors working
on over 22 million articles in 285 languages

27. 175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr
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28. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Slides 21-28 from Cable Green, http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/open-education-the-business-andpolicy-case-for-oer

31. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/
Going back to the idea of Free and Open: A look at MOOCs

32. MOOCs
MOOCs offer fully online courses to anyone without cost to the learner.
These courses are generally large scale, up to thousands of students.
They offer interactivity through frequent, built in assessments and sometimes peer
discussion and guidance from teaching assistants.
Users tend to be already highly educated (surveys indicate +/- 70% already have at
least one post-secondary degree)
Data gathered from users allow interesting research into online learning habits and
preferences.
Content is almost always fully copyrighted.

33. Most MOOCs offer free access, but do not grant permission to modify, translate,
broadcast or re-distribute; they are free, but not open.

34. Example, Coursera terms of service
You may access the course for personal use only, you may not modify or reuse without
permission. Anything you contribute to the course can be used, modified, distributed by Coursera
without notification or further permission from you.
This may be fine if what you want is to follow a free course. However, if you want to
make any modification, use it in a classroom, show content to a group, etc. you need
to get permission as you would with any fully copyrighted work.

35. Examples of how to use openly licensed work
Images from Flikr www.flikr.com
• Search for photos using “Advanced Search”.
• Enter your keyword (eg. Washington DC) and select the box
“Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content”
• Find the license for the photo on the photo information page
when you click on the image.

36. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcomsoc/7848288726/

37. Attribution ShareAlike
This photo is licensed CC-BY-SA
• You are free to use this for
any purpose, including
commercial
• You may modify the image
(cropping is not considered
a modification)
• You must give attribution
(unless otherwise specified,
a link to the source is fine)
• Any modifications of the
photo must be shared
under the same license
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcomsoc/7848288726/

38. Examples of how to use openly licensed work
Open Educational Resources
• Search for materials in an open repository
– www.ocwconsortium.org/courses
– www.oercommons.org
– www.connexions.org
– www.merlot.org
– Many others
• Find the license for the materials on the information page or
on the site itself

39. http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007

40. Attribution
http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007
This course is licensed CC-BY
• You are free to use, modify and distribute all or any
part of this course, including for commercial use
• You must give attribution to the University of
Michigan and cite the source

41. By Opensourceway http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4812651268