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Open Educational Resources:
Stimulating Global Knowledge Sharing
Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. Casserly
September 27, 2005
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Goals for Meeting
 Hewlett’s work and state of the OER Field
 Input on multiple OER portals
 Discuss dissemination
 Discuss sustainability
 Build synergy
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Agenda for Day
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8.00
8.15
9.45
10.00
11.00
11.30
Noon
1.00
2.00
2.50
3.30
7.00
Introductions and General Overview
Hewlett Strategy - State of the Field
Break
Moving Beyond the Horizon
Reflections on the Strategy
OER and Google
Lunch
Windows to OER: Portal Creation
Challenges to Disseminating OER
Charge for the Afternoon
Hike in the Logan Hills
Hamiltons – Dinner and Discussion
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Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura
“If the world community’s special concern is
to overcome the digital divide in order to
build knowledge societies, then this is
precisely what UNESCO is all about. One of
our core missions is to promote the free
exchange of ideas and knowledge; to
maintain, increase and disseminate
knowledge through our work in education,
the sciences, culture and communication.”
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Open Educational Content Inspired By:
 Open Source software movement
 Belief that knowledge and education are
common goods
 Belief that open educational content will
advance human knowledge, creativity, and
social welfare
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Open Educational Resources
• High quality digitized materials
• Freely available on the web for use and re-use
• Focused on teaching, learning and research
• Tools for creating, using, re-using and sharing
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Which Path?
MIT
OCW
K-12
Research
Early 2001
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Theory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS
TO KNOWLEDGE
Remove
Barriers
Understand and
Stimulate Use
High-Quality
High-Quality
Open
Open Content
Content
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Open Content: OpenCourseWare
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Open Content: Full Courses
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Open Content: Library Collections
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Open Content: Subject Area Collections
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Open Content: General Collections
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Theory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS
TO KNOWLEDGE
Remove
Barriers
Understand and
Stimulate Use
High-Quality
Open Content
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Remove Barriers
Intellectual
Property
- Creative Commons
- Stanford U Copyright Determination
Innovation
& Tools
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Culture &
Language
- UNESCO
- Chinese Open Resources for Education
- African Virtual University
Sakai
EtudesNG
Connexions
Internet Archive
EduTools
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Theory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS
TO KNOWLEDGE
Remove
Barriers
Understand and
Stimulate Use
High-Quality
Open Content
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Understand and Stimulate Use
Evaluation &
Research
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Virtual
Communities
- UNESCO IIEP
- Open Learning Support
Stimulate
Use
OECD OER study
Berkeley Digital Resource Study
African Virtual University Gap Analysis
ISKME Re-use Study
- Development Gateway
- OER Exchange
- Chinese Open Resources for Education
- Widernet
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Understand & Stimulate Use
 Organized and searchable
 What users want
 Culturally appropriate
 Disseminate widely
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Portal Development
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Indicators of Strength
of the OER Movement
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OCW Movement — Emerging OCWs
USU
U Mich
MIT, Tufts,
Notre
Berkman
Dame
JHSPH
ParisTech
Japan OCW
Alliance
Universia
DAU
CORE
FETP
AVU
UWC
• 36 institutions live OCW sites
• 35 institutions early development
• 11 countries and 6 languages
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Wikipedia – 1.4 billion hits daily
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Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption
60,000,000
50,000,000
40,000,000
30,000,000
20,000,000
10,000,000
0
2002
2003
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Growing Global Networks
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Goals for 2006
• Build out key collections
- OCW, full courses, content areas
• Expand use and usefulness
- Portals, distribution sites, translations,
partners, research
• Continue building capacity
- IP, community tools
• Sustainability – a dilemma
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