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The Promise of Open Educational Resources APEC Education Meeting Xian, China January 16, 2008

The Promise of Open Educational Resources APEC Education Meeting Xian, China January 16, 2008 Marshall S. Smith and Phoenix M. Wang The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Rapid social and economic change Great human-made problems Global warming Extensive poverty Terrorism

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The Promise of Open Educational Resources APEC Education Meeting Xian, China January 16, 2008

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  1. The Promise of Open Educational Resources APEC Education Meeting Xian, China January 16, 2008 Marshall S. Smith and Phoenix M. Wang The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

  2. Rapid social and economic change Great human-made problems Global warming Extensive poverty Terrorism Nuclear proliferation Our Global Challenges

  3. Build on common values to strengthen resolve to improve the world while cherishing diversity and its innovative power Enable access for all to knowledge and opportunities for learning Prepare all with old and new skills to address problems Meeting Challenges Requires Social and Educational Transformation

  4. Deeper understanding • Student controlled pace • Creative by creating • Work in groups • Synthesize and analyze • Try, fail and try again • Facts & skills based • Teacher controlled • Work alone • Avoid failure • Discipline based Changing World Requires Old + New Basics

  5. A Powerful Tool for Systemic Reform and Transformation • High quality educational content and tools • Free on the Web anytime • Usable and re-usable • Adaptable for all cultures and languages

  6. Accelerating Global Movement Higher Education

  7.                          • 90+ universities around the world published OCWs • 4,000+ courses, 400+ translated into 10 languages

  8. K12

  9. Journals, Books, Videos, Data, Games…

  10. Usage Expanding Number of Visits Per Month (000)

  11. …Institutions can now reach people that they don’t have the capacity to serve • …Individuals have control over the content -- adapting and perfecting • …Continuous improvement through user and expert feedback and modification • …Act of modifying is an instructive learning process Open is Powerful for Learning Because…

  12. Winston Churchill “If you have knowledge, let others light their candle with it.” Thomas Jefferson “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction itself without lessening mine: as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Amartya Sen Views knowledge, education, and health as necessary to ensure freedom.

  13. Movement Will Continue • Changing habits of the new generation • Challenges that require different skills than often taught in schools • Openly sharing digital content becoming cultural norms

  14. Intellectual Property Localization and Translation Interoperability Accessibility Sustainability Some of The Obstacles

  15. Institutions and Individuals have taken the lead so far… Governments starting to define their roles… How might openness enable government to initiate systemic change?Four examples.

  16. Reach remote areas without qualified teachers with full blown, complete courses: (multi-media, lecture, cognitive tutor.) Reach people out of school or lifelong learners Using proctored assessments to give credit for open learning. Dramatically Increase Access to K-12 and Higher Education Photo by mathew ramsey via Flickr

  17. Use Open Courseware: builds a global library of teaching materials from leading universities worldwide: Open archiving (publishing, data bases and data analysis) to support research: books, journals, video. Shared courses located on virtual worlds. Open web-based laboratories create lab experiences for those without labs Open Collaboration Enables Governments to Build Leading Universities

  18. Openness Leads to Fast Feedback Loops That Engage Rapid Cycles of Improvement of Teaching Materials Open Textbooks

  19. Accelerated Learning Challenges Conventional Wisdom

  20. Deeper understanding • Student controlled pace • Creative by creating • Work in groups • Synthesize and analyze • Try, fail and try again • Facts & skills based • Teacher controlled • Work alone • Avoid failure • Discipline based Beyond Systemic Reform – Transform Learning

  21. Motivating: Positive reinforcement for success and progress Allows learner to control pace, time, and level of engagement Problem Oriented: Allows for experimentation, failures and practice Allows learner to test different hypotheses Engages in real or simulated situations Driven by compelling problem Allow learners to try on different identities and change perspectives Allows for personalization through feedback: Capable of tracking an individual’s performance and personalizing experience Properties of 21st Century Learning Environment

  22. Problem-Based Learning Environments: Virtual and Open Poverty: Food Force Science Education: Immune Attack Harvard Law Extension School’s Virtual Class in Second Life Politics: PeaceMaker

  23. Opening The World to Knowledge and Education http://www.Hewlett.org http://www.OERCommons.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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