A presentation given as part of the Open Access Week 2009 at University of Toronto. These slides don't mean much by themselves, but an Adobe Connect recording is here: http://connect.oise.utoronto.ca/p98085499/ and you can download the MP3 here: http://www.archive.org/download/InnovativeProjectsInThePublishingOfOpenEducationalResources/InnovativeProjectsOER.mp3 Abstract: In Norway, the provincial governments allocate a percentage of the funds for purchasing textbooks to develop an open curriculum database for high school students. In Indonesia, the government purchases the copyright to several hundred school textbooks and makes them available online, to encourage local printers to make cheap editions. In India, the largest university in the world made all their teaching materials available online. In China, the government runs a large national competition for top level courses, making teaching more prestigious, and simultaneously sharing the results. Around the world, universities, regions and national governments are developing innovative projects that make educational resources freely available online. This presentation will present a number of case studies, discussing institutional incentives and the potential benefits from open sharing. It will also introduce the Peer2Peer University, a free online collaborative learning platform that forms learning groups around the open educational resources that exist. Stian Håklev is a second-year MA student in the Higher Education program. He is a co-founder of the Peer2Peer University, a co-chair of OISE's Open Access sub-committee, and has given a number of international talks on the topic of open education. Event sponsored by the Education Commons, OISE, University of Toronto

1. Innovative Projects in the Publishing
of Open Educational Resources
OA Week 2009 Stian Håklev
OISE shaklev@gmail.com
University of Toronto October 19, 2009

2. Innovative projects
A look at how people have organized and funded
OER projects around the world for various purposes.
Sustainability problem: It’s expensive to make OERs.
Finally, introduce a project that aims to build
communities of learners around these OER collections.

3. Open Educational Resources
Definition:
OER are teaching, learning and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that permits their free use
or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources
include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other
tools, materials or techniques used to support access to
knowledge. (1)

4. Key Questions
What kind of material is made available?
Who are doing the project?
What is their purpose?
Who is funding it?
How are they justifying the funding?
(How is it being used?)

5. MIT OCW

9. OCWC

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11. tec de monter course
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12. ou korea
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13. israel ocw
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54. WIKIVERSITY

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65. IND TBOOKS

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69. BSE

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97. OHS

100. It is expensive to make OERs.
How to make it sustainable?

101. It is expensive to make OERs
Get lot’s of money
foundations
still have to justify it
not likely to last

102. It is expensive to make OERs
Justify costs
part of national/
institutional mission
utility to formal
education
“freemium” model
OER is side effect of
something else (research,
quality improvement)

103. It is expensive to make OERs
Reduce costs
Integrate into
ordinary production
process
Use student labor
Community of
volunteers

104. P2PU

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115. Thank you!
shaklev@gmail.com
http://reganmian.net/blog
CC BY

116. Credit
Pictures
Lightbulb, by tallpomlin @ flickr (is.gd/4qei2)
Backgrounds, by Photoshop Roadmap @ flickr (is.gd/4qMum)
Money, by Photos8.com @ flickr (is.gd/4r14J)
Sign, by mukluk @ flickr (is.gd/4qXXi)
Shoe, by anomalous4 @ flickr (is.gd/4qZuH)
Sources
1: Atkins, D., Seely Brown, J., Hammond, A. (2007) A review of the
the Open Educational Resources movement: Achievements,
challenges and new opportunities. (is.gd/4qO4E)