advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Choosing the Right platform for OCW Meena Hwang OpenCourseWare Consortium OER Asia Symposium, Sept , 2012 Penang, Malaysia

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Who we are

Over 250 institutions and organizations worldwide supporting open sharing in education 21% 13% 2% 22% 1% 32% 7% 1%

OCW growth

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Issues in starting a project - Format of the courseware What is a course? Multimedia? - How to present the courseware What platform to use - One-directional? Multil-directional? - Who is the author? - How to assess user needs

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. OCW OER

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. A course  Takes one from point A to point B to learn something Need for a Content Management System (CMS)

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. eduCommons First generation OCW platform

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Functions Multilingual Accessibility tracking Copyright clearance Support for OCW publishing workflow RSS Feeds Offers ‘snapshot’ of a course Hopes for standardizing OCW contents for remix and interoperability

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Users UNIVERSIA – Consortium of Spanish & Portuguese speaking universities Early adopters of OCW – Utah State, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, J-OCW universities Projects by individuals

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. OpenLearn, OU UK Short, modularized courses Social functions – study room, chat functions Customized Moodle

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Moodle Most widely used open source LMS Easy to open existing materials /link to existing LMS More interaction allowed among students

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Video courses UC Berkeley Webcast - Own platform - iTunes U - Youtube

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Video courses Videolectures.net

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Video courses Taiwan OCW Consortium - put emphasis on video production

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Criteria for choosing a platform

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Infrastructure -Programming Language/Platform -Database -OS Support -Support level (hosting etc) -Extensibility -Programmer documentation -Multilingual interface -Current Languages Supported -Support for Internationalization -Customizable look and feel -Internal backup and restore -Standards supported -Reporting -Access to content without sign-on -Search engine optimization -Integration with institution authentication systems -Hosted/ self hosted -Uptime -Security level -Self-registration -Accessibility User Interface -Accessibility Support and Tracking for Content Creation -Static Site -Performance Metrics.

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Work Flow --Workflow (roles) -Customizable Workflow -IP Management support -WYWIWYG editor -Licensing choice support -Level of ease for reuse -Export support in range of standard compliant packages -Import support in range of standard compliant packages -Flexible course structures -Multilingual content -Support for courses that are paid-for -Open and closed areas -Offline-authoring -Accessibility tracking -Control of licensing at the asset level -Marking up content as different sorts of assets (reading, video etc) -Creation of web links -Allowance for upload -Custom home page/help/contact -Editing/Changing/Refreshing OER -Disclaimer on Submission

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. User Management -User profiles -Groups -Customizable taxonomies

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Learner Tools -Integrated discussion forums -Tagging/keywords -Search -Other interactive activities -Personalized space -Ratings and reviews of courses -Learning pathways or other recommendation service -E-portfolio -Contextual help -Other collaborative activities -Peer support -Knowledge mapping -Learning Journals or blogs (course/user/site) -Activity records -Metadata export (OAI, RSS, RDF) -Social bookmarking -Widgets Inbound and Outbound

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Assessment Tools -Assessment engine -Grading -Certification -Self-assessment exercises

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Comparison Chart

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Activities of the OpenCourseWare Consortium are generously supported by: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Sustaining Members of the OCW Consortium: The African Virtual University China Open Resources for Education Delft University of Technology Fundação Getulio Vargas Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health Korea OpenCourseWare Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Netease Information Technology Co. Open Universiteit Taiwan OpenCourseWare Consortium Tecnológico de Monterrey Tufts University Universia Universidad Politécnica de Madrid University of California, Irvine University of Michigan University of the Western Cape And contributions of member organizations

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses. Facebook: OCWConsortium