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The OER Landscape and the Context for Open Textbooks: The Flyover

Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D.The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

January 15, 2008

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Hewlett’s Involvement in OER

• Equalize Access to Knowledge for All– Build Infrastructure

• Transform Teaching and Learning– Demonstrate Value

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Three great strengths of OER

• Open (Free) for all on the web • Open for downloading, using and reusing:

– Personalization, cooperation, cultural and linguistic appropriateness (ADA compliant)

• This enhances collaboration, fosters creativity and provides the opportunity to rapidly loop and improve materials via many small contributions

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Transform Teaching and Learning:(1) Research and Development of

Open Participatory Learning Environments

• Differentiate instruction• Motivate and engage• Inquiry-based• Deepen learning• Significant effect on student

outcomes• Understand the role of social media

in learning

Transform Teaching and Learning:Open Participatory Learning Environments

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Transform Teaching and Learning:Open Participatory Learning Environments

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Transform Teaching and Learning:Open Participatory Learning Environments

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Transform Teaching and Learning:(2) Game-based Environments for

Teaching Complex Learning

• Open code to content• Immersive and engaging• Balance ability and challenge• Incentives• Extensible• Build a theoretical framework for

open game-based learning

Transform Teaching and Learning:Game Based Environments

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Transform Teaching and Learning:(3) Open Textbooks

• Free/low cost in print form• Immersive/interactive• Embedded assessments• Games• The textbook/course continuum

– When is a textbook a course?– When is a course a textbook?

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Infrastructure

Guidelines Sustainability Research Metrics

Core AgenciesNetworks/

PartnershipsIntellectual

Property