Trusted Communities – Open Educational Resources for Global Collaboration

1. Trusted Communities – Open Educational Resources for Global Collaboration Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski CCLT, 05.08.2010

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3. …Jyväskylä, Finland… Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]

4. Global Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä (JYU) - The Team Anicet Yalaho, Ph.D. Philipp Holtkamp Kati Clements Denis Kozlov Kirsi Syynimaa Mirja Pulkkinen, Ph.D. Marjo Halmiala Henri Pirkkalainen My background • Ph.D. Business Information Systems, University of Essen • Habilitation “Quality Management / Integration of Knowledge Management and E-Learning” • Professor in “Global Information Systems” • Chair CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning Technologies • ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Project Editor Jan M. Pawlowski

5. JYU: Global Information Systems Focus areas • Global Information Systems • Supporting globally distributed workgroups • Open Educational Resources • Reference Modeling • E-Learning • Supporting international education settings • Cultural adaptation • Standardization & Quality Management • Mobile & Ambient Learning • Innovative tools and solutions Projects • OpenScout: OER for Management • NORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and Training • COSMOS, Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific Content • ASPECT: Open Content and standards for schools • iCOPER: New standards for educational technologies • LaProf: Language learning in ICT and agriculture

6. Contents Barriers of OER use Case Study Results: How does it work in the real life in Finland? Recommdation Systems in the Future: Building yournetworks

7. Open Educational Resources…

8. Social Networks (Solis) Source: B.D. Solis: http://www.sortingthoughts.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2735401175_fcdcd0da03.jpg

9. Sample contents • Mace Project (technology base) • http://www.mace-project.eu • ITunes University • http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ • OpenLearn (Open University UK) • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • Globe Network (Federation) • http://www.globe-info.org/ • Ariadne Foundation (Europe) • http://www.ariadne-eu.org/

10. The starting point… • Waste amount of content is available in repositories, a large number of experts and users are active in social networks • Great potentials for collaboration, sharing and social innovation

11. European teachers find resources…

13. So, why doesn’t it work in Education? • Potentials & needs • Education budget • Focus on new stuff • Cooperation and synergies • Skills in the use of ICT and tools • Enormous resource pools • Barriers • “not invented here” • “Education is something special!” • “I have no time” • Googling might not be enough • Complex tools • Curriculum integration • Insecurities • …

14. Recommendations of resources and people…

15. Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use The solution? Finding resources! Usefulness? Quality? Rights?

16. Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use The solution? Finding people! Trustworthiness?

17. Our study • What do we need to form a community of practice? • What are problems which can occur when using Open Content?

18. 36 teachers in Central Finland 44 teachers around Europe (Belgium, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal) Teachers were from the fields of IT, Maths and Science Finnish teachers vs. European teachers

19. Experiences from our Case Study: Sharing of materials made by others Conclusion: Finnish teachers are more willing to use materials made by others than European teachers

20. Sharing: Who would you give your materials to? Conclusion: Finnish teachers are less willing to give materials to others than European teachers

21. But… • Overall, the willingness to share materials with other teachers is high • How far the teachers sharing materials from each other are – doesn’t seem to matter! • In our world in 2010: Physical distance to a colleague does not affect trust???

23. Content Topic Context Type Didactical setting Quality… People Proximity Geographical Cultural Personal Trustworthiness Experiences Recommendations … Usefulness: Parameters +

24. First degree trusted network Topic / ContextA Topic / ContextB Second degree trusted network Collaboration network construction • Efficient network organization is the key to success • Tools are needed to facilitate the process • Open Issues: • Factors? • Organization? • The right network?

25. Building collaboration networks • Building networks of colleagues • By topic • By trust • By proximity • Manually…or automatically… • Using collaboration networks • Social networks • International communities • Collaboration competency as the key success factor for future teaching!

26. Predictions • Strong worldwide networks will be built (e.g. GLOBE Initiative) • Trusted communities should be established, e.g., initiatives between partner countries with similar or mutually beneficial backgrounds (Chile – Finland?) • No one fits all (facebook-alike) community but sub networks • Starting point: The large social business & leisure networks as well as special interest sites

27. Predictions • Organized by location, interest and trust-levels • No more than 3 networks • Connections to various open content sources • Integration of tools & support

28. Challenges • Internationalization strategies and tools in global, in particular north-south cooperations • Business models: Add-on services and commercialization strategies • Trust awareness and specification mechanisms • Getting started…

29. European Initiatives: NORDLET • A Nordic Baltic cooperation for Open Education • Working in a region with great potentials for open education • Tradition of education as part of the society • Flexible and rapid educational changes • Can we work cooperatively towards open education?

30. European Initiatives: NORDLET • Content space: Access to Baltic Nordic resources • Starting point for collaboration • Discussion and debate: Focus topics • Regional events • Clustering conference • Links to social networks: facebook, …

31. NORDLET

32. Search Validate re-usability Re-use / adapt Validate solution Re-publish European Initiatives: OpenScout Continuous learning in management … • Development of management skills essential • Growing need for learning materials • Diverse topics, up-to-date, high-quality, inexpensive • Easy to access, skill-specific, adaptable, re-usable • Open educational management content available, but many usage barriers … utilizing openly accessible learning materials • Easy-to-use web services to access open content • Support all phases of using open learning materials

33. OpenScout Consortium authoring, adaptation content federation industrial learning technology, content connectors skill & competence services user community reference scenarios, evaluation

34. Join our networks… • Work on shared teaching and development • Use, add, discuss contents • Find people and materials • Develop the idea of open education

35. Contact us… Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski jan.m.pawlowski@jyu.fi GLIS on the web… http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow NORDLET OpenScout http://www.nordlet.org/http://www.openscout.net