Open Education Consortium - advancing openness in education worldwide
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The Open Education Consortium presentation emphasizes the importance of open education in enhancing global educational access and effectiveness, particularly in response to a projected 60% increase in higher education participants by 2025. It highlights various initiatives, such as the OER movement and the establishment of online courses, while detailing the Consortium's role and impact on institutions in promoting open resources. The presentation also underscores collaborative efforts and forthcoming events aimed at advancing open education globally.
Open Education Consortium - advancing openness in education worldwide
- 1. Open Education Consortium – advancing openness in education worldwide Presentation at OER: Impact and Outcomes Conference, 8-9 December 2014, Paris, France [email protected] Twitter: @igor_lesko Unless otherwise noted, Open Education Consortium – advancing openness in education worldwide by Igor Lesko is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 2. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- 3. Worldwide Participation in Higher Education is Expected to Grow ~60% by 2025… 2011 2025 Worldwide Participants in Tertiary Education, 2011 and 2025 Projected In order to accommodate these 98 million new students, four major universities of 30,000+ students would need to open every week for the next 15 years Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-world/2001128.article; OECD indicators Education at a Glance 2012 and Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution, UNESCO 2009 165M 263M
- 4. Rising Cost of Education/Decreasing Public Funding By mrchrisadams (CCBY-NC) By marsmet471 (CCBY-NC-SA)
- 5. However… Since 2001 Advancements through: - OER Movement - OA Movement - Open Education Movement - and others… Coupled with developments in ICTs – access to resources anytime, anywhere
- 6. However… Changing realities and Creating opportunities for innovations in Teaching & Learning, new forms of assessment/validation of learning, improved quality, retention and more... Not just in formal higher education - Life-long learners - Unemployed/working professionals - Self-learners
- 7. Opening up Education firmly on the agendas of International Organizations http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?qid=1389115469384&uri=CELEX:52 013DC0654 http://goo.gl/OVHiF http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communicati on-and-information/access-to- knowledge/open-educational- resources/implementing-the-paris-oer- declaration/ http://goo.gl/44G4T http://www.francophonie.org/
- 8. …and Governments http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/ 2014/ai1ec_event/openingupslovenia/ ?instance_id=446 & http://www.ouslovenia.net/ www.openscot.net http://www.che.ac.za/media_and_publications/legislati on/white-paper-post-school-education-and-training (p. 54). http://goo.gl/2LBFD http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/province-offers money-open-textbookshttp://www.universites-numeriques.fr/ocw/index.html
- 10. Name Change: OCWC - OEC
- 11. What is Open Education? Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide. Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared educational resources, while harnessing today’s collaborative spirit to develop educational approaches that are more responsive to learner’s needs. http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/
- 12. Who We Are The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/
- 15. More than 30 000 OER/OCW produced by OEC members since 2006 http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/
- 16. Why Focusing on opening up access to content as OER/OCW? OER = important foundational block upon which innovations can be built
- 17. Examples of Impact User Feedback Survey Source: OCWC Feedback Survey March 2011 - May 2013 Responses received from 1773 respondents (90 countries). Nearly 50% of respondents were students undergoing secondary or university-level education. Working professionals represented 22% of all respondents. http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/surveyresults/
- 18. Examples of Impact FGV Online Open & Free Courses Source: OCWC – FGV Online Survey March 2013 • Initiated in 2008: 43 open courses • Research project (OCWC – FGV Online) with respondents having completed courses between 2008-2012 • 7671 responses received
- 19. Examples of Impact Impact of Openness on Institutions What we do online is starting to be used in the classroom on campus. For the first time, professors are starting to think about concepts like flipping the classroom and applying it. We want to better use online materials in our regular Education and we want to offer our program to lifelong learners (LLL) (Anka Mulder, TU Delft). OCW was definitely a huge paradigm shift. In fact it is part of our mission to share what we have produced with the rest of the world. (Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT). People who have contributed to the open content have benefitted themselves by being visible on an international platform. Also the Higher Education Commission recommends that, in case of shortage of qualified manpower, institutions should use the VUP courses to supplement their offerings. For example, there is one institution that uses 14 VUP courses in their Bachelor program (Naveed Malik, VUP). http://www.oeconsortium.org/projects/impact-of-openness-on-institutions/
- 20. Advocacy and Awarennes: Open Education Week 2015 9-13 March, 2015 Call for Participation is open: http://www.openeducationweek.org/ CFP closes: 10 February 2015
- 21. Advocacy and Awarennes: Open Education Global Conference 2015 22-24 April, 2015 Call for Proposals is open: http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/ Deadline: 10 December 2014
- 22. Special Projects: • Open Education Information Center: – Central place for information on open education including links to resources, how-tos, reports, discussion areas, calendar of open education events worldwide and more (to be launched in January). • Open Education Professional Directory – A searchable index of experienced professionals in open education. • OpenMOOCs – OECx through partnership with edX (Opportunities for OEC members) – Conditions: MOOCs must be created from exiting open content, openly licensed and downloadable from institutional websites. Objective to see how OER can be used to create MOOCs more efficiently. Webinars will be run next year on this topic. Next series of MOOCs (2015) - around specific topic areas such as teacher training.
- 23. Open Education Professional Directory http://www.oeconsortium.org/directory/
- 25. Consultancies OER Professional Fellows • The US State Department and the Arab League partnered to form the Open Book project • Objectives: to localize OER for the MENA region and encourage Arab language OER production • OEC one of the organizations asked to help coordinate and participate in the Project. OER Professional Fellows exchange, set up in support of the Project, involves 3 phases: Phase 1: 14 professors and administrators from across the MENA region selected to participate in a 3-week visit to the US to learn about OER and participated in short internships. OEC coordinated the visit.
- 26. Consultancies OER Professional Fellows Following return to their countries participants took various steps to promote OER in their countries – workshops, trainings, conference presentations or creating national OER plans. Phase 2: OER professionals (2 out of 3 affiliated with OEC) going to the MENA region for meetings with ALESCO, universities, educators and ministries to promote participation in open education. Workshops in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar.
- 27. Consultancies OER Professional Fellows Outcome of Phase 2: Working closely with ALESCO to support their OER plan for the region and working with various universities to help them get started on OER. ALESCO is planning to attend Open Education Global Conference 2015 in Canada to present their OER plan. Phase 3: OEC, Creative Commons with representatives from Saudi Arabia and Jordan to give a workshop and discuss OER during ALESCO Forum in Dubai (18-22 December 2014). For more information contact Mary Lou Forward: [email protected]
- 28. Consultancies Saudi Arabian eLearning professional training OEC will be coordinating a yearlong comprehensive training program in open and technology enhanced learning for 50 female Saudi professors and administrators. The training will take place during face-to-face workshops in the US and Saudi Arabia, during online webinars and will incorporate internships in the US. For more information contact Mary Lou Forward: [email protected] Campus Virtual de las Americas (CVA) CVA was created by the Organization of American States (OAS) through their Foundation Virtual Educa & collaboration with OEC. It aims to offer high quality educational resources in Spanish (OER); develop pathways for topics of common interest in the LA region (Admin, Safety, English, etc); offer certifications & strengthen the Network. For more information contact Marcela Morales: [email protected]
- 29. Join Us • The education landscape is rapidly changing as a result of the digital revolution • Education is becoming increasingly global, accessible, and interconnected • Open Education Consortium is at the forefront of this movement as a truly global network for open education • We invite you to be part of this conversation Join us today and help shape the future of education For more information and to become a member, visit www.oeconsortium.org/members
- 30. Thank you for your attention! [email protected] Twitter: @igor_lesko
Editor's Notes
- #3: Education = empowerment + personal growth = realized potential