Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) OER Sustainability Agenda 1. Findings Group - 1: Asia 2. Findings Group - 2: Europe 3. Findings Group - 3: USA, Pacific 4. Conclusions Chair: Prof. David Vincent Rapporteur: dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp

Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) OER Sustainability Group – 1: Asia Questions in general Why should OER be sustainable? When OER becomes sustainable, does it then deplete traditional business (enrolments)? Does ICDE have funding for sustainability tasks and projects? Should sustainability be actually related to ICDE: is it not an individual issue? Sustainability and ICDE ICDE: prospectively to set-up a Consortium model (compare European model: EADTU/MORIL) - to be in charge of “networking” the OER courses for the members - kick-off pilot projects (on quality and localisation issues) - help mobilise political support - help share (increasing) educational development aid Sustainability miscellaneous Country-specific: sharing “national-class” courses / “state” courses Prospective: give curriculum away but pay for support and examination Asia General tendency: - state funding - Chair: Prof. David Vincent Rapporteur: dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp

Group – 2: Europe Questions in general What about the sustainability of the course content itself? What about course renewal and updating of courses? How to deal with versioning and tracking outside the institute on the WWW? Perhaps it is not a good case that all open courses are actually FREE? Sustainability and ICDE ICDE should promote mechanisms on how to use OERS Establish exemplary codes of practice (quality, dating, licensing, etc.) Sustainability miscellaneous Adopt a pragmatic view on sustainability Open does not mean necessarily FREE Not the entire learning process should be for free Share “national-common courses inside ones country Europe General tendency: -Government dependence - Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) OER Sustainability Chair: Prof. David Vincent Rapporteur: dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp

Group – 3: USA, Pacific Questions in general With informal learning (i.e., credit-less): how will learners fit the European system? With credential decoupling: can learners still be awarded degrees? Why do European institutions dependent more on state funding as compared to US-based? Why does Europe seem to have educational access problems and US not? Why is Europe not more entrepreneurial? Extent partnerships? And, reach-out to corporate clients? Sustainability and ICDE The ICDE organisation should bring OER “best-practice” to the members ICDE members should enter their pilot experiences The function of ICDE should be one of a clearing house - ICDE facilitating the bringing together of experience - Members tapping from that experience; taking out Differentiate sustainability to different (critical) disciplines/courses Country-specific opportunities must be seized by institutes themselves - Commercial sponsoring - Government funding - New (overseas) target groups - Philanthropical funds USA, Pacific General tendency: -public funding – (Government, foundations, etc.) Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) OER Sustainability Chair: Prof. David Vincent Rapporteur: dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp

Conclusions Sustainability: - There is not one definition of OER nor model of sustainability (it is situational) - There is a strong public funding dependence (concerning OER sustainability) - Not all stages of the OER learning process will be for FREE (in future models) ICDE: - Is to provide a platform for OER information exchange - Is to facilitate OER collaboration and best practice sharing amongst members - Is not to replicate what is already done by other consortia Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) OER Sustainability Chair: Prof. David Vincent Rapporteur: dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp