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EDUCATIONAL GAME CHANGER: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

OPEN COURSEWARE &

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

IT’s Delivery Channel – The Internet Has changed the shape of society, business and learning. Allowing for greater

efficiency in countless areas. Learning:

Instant access to virtually infinite information. Collaboration and learning from each other. It enables creating more value and generating more ideas

than each could alone. Administrative – registration, accessing grades, communications with staff, faculty and classmates.

Society Connects people from all corners of the globe; brings together cultures and languages. Health related services. Social networking. Entertainment.

Business: E-commerce. Data, data and more data! Business Intelligence.

Offers unique experiences Mobile technology has only enhanced the possibilities

Background

Current Issues in Higher Education

Average cost of attaining a 4-year higher education in the United States is prohibitive: Full-time college attendance cost averages from $13,648

to $42,962 per year. [1]

While educational attainment rates have increased since the 1990s, graduation rates hover around 32% in the United States and 23% in countries included in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [1]

Non-attendance and reasons for attrition include high costs, low motivation or college-level skills and family or financial responsibilities.

Current Trends In Educational Attainment [1]

Why Is This Important?

In the United States, those with a Bachelor’s Degree or higher show the lowest levels of unemployment across all age groups from 20 to 64. [1]

This group also earns more per year on average than those with lesser educational credentials.

“65 percent of U.S. jobs — almost two- thirds — will require some form of postsecondary education by 2020”. [3]

Alternatives to traditional education/degree granting programs may help bridge the gap in educational demands.

Earnings and Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment [2]

Note: Data are for persons age 25 and over. Earnings are for full-time wage and salary workers.

Attainment Levels Needed for Future Jobs in U.S [4]

Note: Data are for persons age 25 and over. Earnings are for full-time wage and salary workers.

• Over 7.1 million students, or 33%, took at least one online course in 2013.[7]

• For the 11 years the Online Learning Consortium has conducted it’s annual survey on the state of online learning, each year has seen increases in online enrollment that exceeds overall higher education enrollment.[7]

• Chief Academic Officers (CAOs) rate learning outcomes in online education as the same or better to the traditional face-to-face experience. • Those that gave online learning a ‘negative’ grade were those who did not

offer online courses.[7]

• 66% of CAOs agree that offering online courses is crucial to their institutions long term strategies. Many see it as a way to gain visibility and attract students. [ 7 ]

Online: The Future of Education

MIT: Pioneered Free and Open Education

• In 2000, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to publish their course content online, making it available instantly worldwide.• “Simply put, OpenCourseWare is a natural marriage of American

higher education and the capabilities of the World Wide Web,” ; MIT President Charles Vest.[6]

• By 2014, their OCW site has received over 125 million visits by 71 million visitors from virtually every country in the world.[5]

• 1 million visits per month, PLUS half that amount for translated materials.

• Platform has grown from 32 to over 2,150 courses.• Program has influenced over 200 similar projects at universities all

over the world.

MIT: Pioneered Free and Open Education

• They hoped that their free curriculum materials would impact third-world countries. By allowing their materials to be the information could potentially help develop innovative infrastructure and institutions.• Approximately 54% of web visits originate from outside of the

United States.

• 80% of visitors rate their experience as positive or very positive. [6]

• Educators rate the service as contributing to their teaching. [6]

• In the next decade, MIT hopes to increase their reach to a billion people!

Globally Audience

MIT’s OCW Impact

Source 5. “Site Statistics”

Open Courseware Open Educational Resources

• High quality courses or lessons created by universities. • Published for free and

available to the public via the internet.

• Normally do not grant certifications, degrees or access to faculty.

• Offered in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines.

• All educational resources:• Textbooks, research articles,

lectures, simulations, videos, software, curricula, podcasts etc.

• Can be licensed through an open copyright such as the creative commons, or be public domain.

• Are free to be accessed, disseminated, re-used and modified.

What are they?

Guiding Principles

Free and open sharing of information and education can power enhancements in teaching and learning around the world.

• Education is sharing; without one sharing their knowledge with another, there is no learning or education.

• The internet as a powerful tool: the costs associated with accessing and printing materials digital materials is negligible compared to producing or purchasing the same materials. Open access lowers costs.

• Allowing revisions on materials heightens quality of these works through improvements. Also provides educators with control of how these materials are presented.

• Open teaching allows educators to learn from others as well in order to improve their courses, materials and pedagogical methods.

Who’s Using OCW/OER?

Source 5. “Site Statistics”

• Educational institutions are looking into ways to provide recognition for course completion.

• MIT and Harvard have begun offering more structured courses that may grant credits or certifications for completed courses and allow for student and teacher collaboration, evaluations and participation.

• The number of institutions offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has doubled in between 2012 and 2013, but there are concerns about confusion between these types of credentials and those of accredited degree granting programs. Approximately half of the institutions surveyed are unsure if they will implement a MOOC, but about 10% are planning to. [7]

• Calling upon promotion of OER internationally, the COL and UNESCO have worked a plan that will promote this invaluable new way to learn

• Countries located in Asia, Africa and the Pacific have held online forums to develop guideline, policies and processes for implementing OER programs.

Future Directions

Try a course or check out educational materials from any of these awesome OCW providers!

Kahn AcademyMIT OpenCourseWareEdXSaylor FoundationOpen Education ConsortiumYaleOpen.MichiganCarnegie Mellon

What Do YOU Want to Learn Today?

References

1. U.S. Department of Education, The Condition of Education 2011 (NCES 2011-033), (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011).2. "Earnings and Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment." U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24 Mar. 2014. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. <http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm>.3. "A Stronger Nation through Higher Education." Lumina Is Committed to

Enrolling and Graduating More Students from College. Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc, June 2013. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. <http://www.luminafoundation.org/stronger_nation/report/main-narrative.html#3>.4. Lingenfelter, Paul E. "The Knowledge Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for American Higher Education." Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies. Educase, 2012. 9-24. PDF.

References

5. "Site Statistics." MIT OpenCourseWare. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. <http://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/>.6. Massachussetts Institue of Technology. “2005 Program Evaluation Findings Report MIT OpenCourseWare.” Publication. Cambridge. 2006. Pdf.7. Allen, Elaine, and Jeff Seaman. Tracking Online Education in the United

States. N.p.: Babson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC, Jan. 2014. PDF.

8. Oblinger, Diana G. Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies. Educase, 2012. PDF.9. Smith, Vernon C. "Scaling Up: Four Ideas to Increase College Completion." Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies. N.p.: Educase, 2012. 105-14. PDF.10. Wiley, David, and Cable Green. "Why Openness in Education?" Game

Changers: Education and Information Technologies. N.p.: Educase, 2012. 81-89. PDF.