OER AND THE
STATE OF THE
MOOC
August 2014
CATHY CASSERLY
GOALS FOR THIS TALK
EARLY VISION AND MOTIVATION RE OER
OPEN LICENSING AND THE GROWTH OF THE OER MOVEMENT
HOW MOOCS FIT WITH THE OER MOVEMENT
MOOCS, OPENNESS, HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE
OER INVESTMENT – THE EARLY DAYS
OER – THEORY OF CHANGE
OPEN LICENSING & OER
Free (no cost) +
Permission to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
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SHARED VALUES IN THE OER COMMUNITY
Knowledge is a
public good
Open can deliver
equal or better
quality resources
at a lower cost
Everyone can
contribute
Continuous improvement
around open resources can
improve learning outcomes
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OER
IS NOT A
PRODUCT
It’s a way
of thinking,
teaching,
and learning
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OER
Goals
To equalize access
to knowledge for
teachers and
students around
the globe and
improve the
practices of
teaching and
learning
through OER
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FUNDERS / POLICIES
GROWTH OF THE OER MOVEMENT
Mathieu Plourde licensed CC-BY on Flickr
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VARIABLES ACROSS MOOCS
• Open access or fee based
• cMOOC, xMOOC
• Nonprofit, for profit
• Open licensed, or not
• Open platform, or not
• Certificate of mastery, fee, institutional
credit, badging
• Revenue model, to be solved
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OER
MOST MOOCS
Free (no cost)
Free (no cost)
Permission to reuse,
revise, remix,
redistribute
Not openly licensed
Public good; public access
Venture backed; seek
revenue
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• Universities / faculty are the copyright holders to
their MOOC content
• MOOCs are platforms / tools ... and platforms
should provide range of functionality
• MOOCs should make it easy for the universities /
faculty to add a Creative Commons license to their
course content if / when they (the copyright holders)
choose to do so.
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http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667
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HOLY GRAIL – FULLY OPEN CYCLE
OPEN
DATA
OPEN
CONTENT
OPEN
PLATFORM
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http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667URI
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ATTRIBUTIONS
Side 8 and 9 Images: World Bank Photo Collection
Stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/
Pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10816734@N03/4700437282/
Slide 12: Mathieu Plourde licensed CC-BY on Flickr;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course#mediaviewer/File:M
OOC_poster_mathplourde.jpg
Slides 16 and 18 http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667
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THANK YOU!
CCASSERLY@HEWLETT.ORG
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