Open Educational Resources

BrazilDecember 2008

Open Access Repositories

Open Access Journals

Public Access

Bethesda Statement & Berlin Declaration

Research funded by governments should be available to public (taxpayers)

Maximize dissemination of research Research is cumulative - science

advances only through sharing of results.

Open Educational Resources

Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.*

*UNESCO. 2002. Forum on the impact of Open Courseware for higher education in developing countries. Final report. Paris: UNESCO.

Open Educational Resources

Learning Content: Full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, and collections.

Tools: Software to support the development, use, re-use and delivery of learning content.

Implementation Resources: Intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials and localization of content.

Open Educational Resources

Reference materials:

Open textbooks/learning materials:

Open courses:

Strategies for OE

Open education policy: Governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make taxpayer-funded educational resources OER.

Open content licenses: OER should be freely shared through open licenses which facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing.

Collaborative production: Educators and students can participate in creating, using, adapting and improving OER.

“A revolution of sorts is sweeping education...In another promising development, a coalition of educators, foundations and Internet pioneers in January signed a declaration urging governments and publishers to make publicly funded educational material available free over the Internet. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration has so far been signed by more than 140 organizations and nearly 1,500 individuals.”

Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2008

Lessons from OA to OE Open source software Open content licenses Coalition building Outreach/movement building

Open Access News Open Education News

Engage business Public access Support champions/pilot countries

Pilot countries

Poland

Australia

Brazil

Poland

Open textbook project, k-12 OER working group

Creative Commons Polska Polish Wikipedia Association Association of Polish Librarians Modern Poland Foundation

Political support (Deputy Prime Minister)

Dept of Education Interest in CTD (339 signatures, 18%)

Australia

Digital Education - A$1.2 billion Australian ICT for Education Committee Content should be “open and shared and

adaptable” Political support (Deputy Prime

Minister/Education Minister) Review of National Innovation

System (Cutler Report)

“We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching

and education.”

Cape Town Declaration

Thanks

Pictures by

Melissa HagemannInformation ProgramOpen Society Institutemhagemann@sorosny.org