OECD, Paris
8/9 December 2008
Joint Information Systems Committee
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OECD 8/9 December 2008
The Internet, Information and Innovation
Dr Malcolm Read
JISC Executive Secretary
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The Internet
 Internet essential for Learning and Teaching:
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Communication, content, social networking
 Internet essential for Research:
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Collaboration, content/data, access to resources
 Internet essential for management:
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Student applications, outreach, marketing, international
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Information Resources
 Online learning and teaching material
 Student records/achievements
 Research outputs – scholarly communication
 Research data
 Finance information/HR information
 Government statistics
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Innovation
By:
 Strategic management of
information
 Open access and
institutional repositories
– joined up educational
content and on-line
learning
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Open
Source
Standards
Access
Content
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Open Content
 Scholarly Communications/IPR
– NIH: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
– EU Seventh Framework
Open Access Pilot
 Research data
 Educational content
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/open-access-pilot_en.pdf
http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf
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Open Educational Content (OEC)
RATIONALE
 Encourage the sharing of content between institutions, between
academics and within communities of practice
 Encourage development and uptake of new generation tools that
will enhance both productivity and relevance by being
customisable and adaptable by both academics and students
 Marketing tool where students can view content produced by an
institution prior to applying to study there
 Learning materials and resources can be shared universally locally, nationally and globally to support e-learning
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OEC Benefits

Increased student satisfaction concerning the quality of learning materials

Increased applications to UK HEI courses from international, and nontraditional, learners

Enhancement of global academic reputation of the UK HE system;
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Improved VFM and added value through a shared service, adding to the
ethos of collegiality
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Significant increase in the open availability and use of free high quality
online content
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Advertising and marketing benefits to individual lecturers, HEIs and UK
education, opening up universities to potential students
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Opportunity to recognise and reward the contribution of teaching within
HEIs and recognise teaching professorships
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Existing Evidence
 MIT OpenCourseWare initiative materials seen 1 million unique users each
month (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/stats/)
 ParisTech OCW project France, 800 educational resources from around 100
teaching units made available by 11 member universities
(http://graduateschool.paristech.org/)
 China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium: 750 courses made
available by 222 university members
(http://www.core.org.cn/cn/jpkc/index_en.html )
 Open University’s OpenLearn materials have been accessed 1.7 million times in
the last 18 months (http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=11281)
 http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf
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UK Ambitions
 Core of UK open access learning resources
 Organised coherently
 Supported by national centres of excellence
– Quality control
– Essential updating
– Skills training
– Research and development
 All HEIs encouraged and helped to exploit virtual
education technologies as appropriate to their student’s
requirements and their strategies
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Open Research Data
 Central theme of open research is to make clear accounts of research
methodology, along with data and results, freely available via the
internet. This permits massively distributed collaboration.
 Primary research data are posted which can be added to/interpreted by
anybody who has the necessary expertise and who can therefore join the
collaborative effort. This ability to amend data distinguishes open
research from open access
 JISC-funded My Experiment project (http://www.myexperiment.org/)
enables researchers to easily find, use and share scientific workflows
and other files, and to build communities.
 Indian government just launched the Open Source Drug Discovery
Initiative (http://www.osdd.net/) which aims to provide a global platform
for collaboration to discover novel therapies for diseases like Malaria,
Tuberculosis, and Leshmaniasis
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International Benefits
Underpin provision UK Higher
of unmet demand,
Education’s
(e.g. in South East
contribution to the
Asia and the
public good and
developing world)
the developing
world
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