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August 18, 2006 OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch

August 18, 2006 OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch. Open Educational Resources OpenCourseWare Understanding value to US Schools. OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch. 1. I. Open Educational Resources II. OpenCourseWare III. Understanding value to US Schools.

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August 18, 2006 OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch

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  1. August 18, 2006 OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch

  2. Open Educational Resources • OpenCourseWare • Understanding value to US Schools OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch 1

  3. I. Open Educational Resources II. OpenCourseWare III. Understanding value to US Schools OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch 2

  4. Open Educational Resources — OER Landscape OER Tools Software for developmentand delivery of resources Content Materials published for learning or reference Implementation Resources Shared conventions for publishing of open resources Repositories • Portals • Merlot • Development Gateway • OCW Consortium • OER Portal Content Management Systems (CMS) • USU’s EduCommons • Kewl Next Gen DevelopmentTools • Rice Connexions Licensing Tools • Creative Commons • Best Practices • Intellectual • property • Metadata • Online Courses • CMU • Monterey • Institute• Open University • Reference • OCWs • Connexions • Wikipedia • Harvard Open • Collection • Open Access • Journals Groupware • Wikis • Social networking tools Learning Management Systems (LMS) • Sakai • Moodle

  5. Open Educational Resources — Some History • Rice Connexions site launched • MIT OCW announced • Term “Open Educational Resources” adopted at UNESCO Forum on Impact of OpenCourseWare for Higher Education • Harvard University Library Open Collections initiative launched • MIT OCW Pilot site launched • eduCommons OCW Content Management System launched • Japan OCW Alliance launched • CORE established • Tufts OCW launched • ParisTech OCW launched • OCW Consortium Meetings 2001 2002 2004 2005 2005/6

  6. I. Open Educational Resources II. OpenCourseWare III. Understanding value to US Schools OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch 5

  7. Open Course Ware — OCWC Kyoto, April 2006 • Representatives of over 100 institutions worldwide • China (CORE) • France (ParisTech) • India • Japan (Japan OCW Consortium) • Spain (Universia) • Thailand • United States • Vietnam (VOICE) • 50 have OCW content published; 50 more are in process

  8. OpenCourseWare — The Consortium

  9. OpenCourseWare — OCW as transformative • In China, OCW is a tool for rapidly developing and scaling educational system • In Vietnam, OCW is a way of improving national curriculum and pedagogy • In France and Japan, OCW is a tool for enhancing competitiveness for international students

  10. I. Open Educational Resources II. OpenCourseWare III. Understanding value to US Schools OpenCourseWare Brainstorming Lunch 9

  11. OCW in the US — MIT internal metrics • 71% of students • 59% of faculty • 41% of alumni • 35% of freshmen who were aware of the site before deciding to come to MIT say it was a significant influence “OCW was one of the main reasons why I decided to come here and not another university--it provided a good understanding of what I was going to get ... that's the reason why I ended [up] here, and not in Stanford or Columbia.” (MIT Graduate Student) “When I have trouble understanding the material for a course or test, OCW is the best place to find added resources. (MIT Undergraduate Student)

  12. OCW in the US — Other US OCWs • Tufts University

  13. OCW in the US — Other US OCWs • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health “As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.” • Notre Dame University “It is our privilege to share freely with the worldwide community an intellectual and ethical framework for viewing, confronting, and reflecting upon some of the most complex issues facing our society.” • Utah State University “USU OCW provides an unprecedented degree of free and open access to the knowledge and expertise of our faculty for the benefit of every citizen of the state of Utah and every person in the world.”

  14. OCW in the US — Discussion • Is there an opportunity being missed here for US schools? • Is OCW/OER on your radar at all? • What about OCW is attractive to your institution? What is not? • What systems and resources on your campus might make OCW publication easier? More difficult? • What external factors might influence your interest in OCW?

  15. Thank You! Visit MIT OpenCourseWare online at http://ocw.mit.edu Visit the “Opencourseware How To” site on the Web at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/index.htm

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