Introduction to OpenCourseWare Europe for the workshop "Guidelines for the Use of OpenCourseWare for Virtual Mobility" at Online Educa Berlin Conference on 28th of November 2012 by Willem van Valkenburg

1. OpenCourseWare in the European HE context
Introduction to
OpenCourseWare
28 November 2012
Willem van Valkenburg
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opencourseware.eu Programme of the European Union
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2. Agenda
• Introduction
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Why should we do this?
• OpenCourseWare in Europe
• Questions
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3. What is “Open”?
• Free • Quality assurance
• Shared • Varied availability by
• Choices disciplines
• Ability to adapt • Available to anybody
• Cost effective • Digital
• Ability to tailor & build • Often multimedia
your own • Accessibility—more
• Creative Commons accessible to some and
• Freedom of info and use less to others
CC-BY Brandon Muramatsu: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oex
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4. OCW part of the Open Movement
Open Content
• OCW is only one type of Open
Educational Resource (OER).
Open
Educational • OERs are only one type of
Resources Open Content.
• We have much to share with
OCW each other.
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5. What are Open Educational Resources?
• Shared educational materials
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification
• Available to anyone via the internet (and often
other means)
David Wiley 4R’s:
Reuse – copy verbatim
Redistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and edit
Remix – combine with others
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6. What is OpenCourseWare?
• High quality educational materials organized
as courses
A course is package of educational materials starting a
particular point in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead
to greater understanding of the issue or topic
• Openly licensed for distribution, re-use and
modification, available to all on the internet
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7. What are OpenCourseWare projects?
• Institutions that have committed to sharing some of their
educational materials with the world
• Can be text only – reproduction of materials used for
classroom lectures
• Can include video, recordings, materials developed
especially for internet learning
• Can be translations of courses already on OCW sites
• Can be remixes of materials from various courses and
local contexts
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8. What is Open Education?
• Ecosystem of different Open Initiatives:
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9. Why Be Open?
Education Buy One, Paradox The $5
is Sharing Get One of Free Textbook
Facilitate the Continuous Content is Do the Right
Unexpected Improvement Infrastructure Thing
Based on David Wiley’s presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-arguments-and-examples
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10. Why be Open? Global Benefits
Washington’s
Open Course Library
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Watermanagement
A collection of openly
TU Delft content is used at a worldwide community of
licensed (CC-BY)
ITB Bandung to educate hundreds of institutions
educational materials for
students about water committed to advancing
81 high-enrollment college
OpenCourseWare and its
courses
impact on global education.
>20k courses published
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11. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Our mission
to advance formal and informal learning
through the worldwide sharing and use of
free, open, high-quality education materials
organized as courses.
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12. • ~280 members
• >170 live OCW sites
• >20,000 courses
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13. OpenCourseWare in Europe
• Situation in Europe:
• Many different countries
• Already have the brick-and-mortar universities
• We educate students for more than 2000 years
• Very conservative in regards to education
• Universities face budget cuts due to the eurocrisis
• Consequences:
• Europe is lacking behind
• Eurocrisis gives opportunity to change
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14. OpenCourseWare in Europe
How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility
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15. Objectives
Facilitate virtual mobility
• Create of preconditions for a strong European
OCW-framework
• closer cooperation between European
institutes
• mutual use of material and even joint degrees
• enhance quality and increase the usage of
online courses
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16. Partners
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17. Phases
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
Research Workshops Final OCWC
Reports Europe
• Pedagogic and • Workshops for • Final • Foundation for a
cultural issues dissimination and results, based European branch
• Models for input of experts upon research and of the OCWC has
sustainable the outcomes of been initiated
cooperation the workshops. towards the end of
between HEI on • Results: 2013.
OCW publications end
• Educational 2013 through
innovation with different channels
OCW cited by major
• Comparing and organizations
assessing national active in the field
policies and the of OER.
role of
governments
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18. Research deliverables
• Analyses of existing research and best
practices
• Models for sustainable cooperation between
HEI on OCW
• Student Mobility Handbook
• Comparing and assessing national policies
and the role governments
– Combined with other initiatives
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19. Call for Partners
Academic Network for STEM Courses
• STEM = Science Technology
Engineering & Math
• 25 partners from 25 countries in Europe
• Deadline January 2013
• Grant to maximum of k€ 600
• TU Delft will coordinate
• More information:
http://opencourseware.eu/STEM
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20. More on OpenCourseWare
Thursday 11.45 to 13.00 in Potsdam III
• Meena Hwang, OpenCourseWare Consortium, USA
Creating Impact Inside and Beyond Classrooms:
Opening and Sharing for Global Benefits
• Willem van Valkenburg, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
OpenCourseWare in Europe: How to Make Use of Its
Full Potential for Virtual Mobility
• Frederik Truyen, KU Leuven CS Digital, Belgium
Students' Agency in Open Courseware: Perspectives of
Students in Taking Responsibility over Open
Courseware
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21. Credits
Partners slideshare.net/ocweu
• Delft University of Technology twitter: #ocweu
• Universidad Politécnica Madrid
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Creative Commons
www.opencourseware.eu
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