Open Educational Resources

18 Pages·2006·0.48 MB·English

Open Educational Resources
Jan Hylén
OECD/CERI
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Technology trends in HE (1)
IT use in education growing for some time but
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mostly outside classroom settings:
– Administration
– Information
Now signs that IT is entering core educational
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activities
– “On-line education is growing by degrees” – appr.
20% a year (Sloan Cons. 2005)
– “E-learning is becoming increasingly prominent in
higher education” (OECD 2005)
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Technology trends in HE (2)
Growing competition in HE
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– knowledge and learning resources are often
considered as key intellectual property
Still institutions and individuals are sharing their
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digital learning resources over the Internet
openly and for free.
OER Project:
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– why this is happening?
– who is involved?
– what the policy implications of this?
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The Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning
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What is Open Educational Resources?
OER are digitized materials offered freely
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and openly for educators, students and
self-learners to use and re-use for
teaching, learning and research.
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What is Open Educational Resources
OER includes:
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open courseware and content;
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open software tools (e.g. learning management
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systems);
open material for e-learning capacity building of
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faculty staff;
repositories of learning objects;
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free educational courses…
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