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Video About MIT OCW (2007)

What is MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)? MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. IMPORTANTLY  OCW is NOT an MIT education.  OCW DOES NOT grant degrees or certificates.  OCW DOES NOT provide access to MIT faculty.  Materials MAY NOT reflect entire content of the course. Source:

MIT OCW Stats courses published. 146 million visits by 104 million visitors. 1 million visits each month (Translations: 500,000 more). Translations receive 500,000 more. * Updated 09/11/2012

MIT OCW Audience MIT OCW audience is divided among: Source (accessed 19/04/2012):

MIT OCW Uses MIT OpenCourseWare is being used for a wide range of purposes. Source (accessed 19/04/2012):  80% rate OCW's impact as extremely positive or positive.  91% expect that level of future impact.  96% of educators say the site has/will help improve courses.  96% of visitors would recommend the site.

MIT OCW Development An average of 100 hours effort to produce one course. MIT faculty devote 5-10 hours for each course. 12 publication staff work directly with the faculty. 2 intellectual property staff. 4 production staff support the publication team. 5 outreach and administrative staff manage communications, media relations, outreach, program evaluation, and OCW's sustainability.

MIT OCW Cost The total annual cost is about $ 3.5 million. Cost per Non-video-based course: $10,000–$15,000 Cost per Video-based course: $30,000 For each course MIT OCW publish, they must: Compile course materials from faculty; Ensure proper licensing for open sharing; Format materials for global distribution; Sustain technical infrastructure (software/hardware network); and Provide and support local mirror sites in bandwidth constrained regions. Article: MIT site:

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Projected that OCW reserves will run out in FY2014 without significant changes in their current funding model. Challenge is to offset the loss of grant funds with substantial increases in revenues such as: Donations Endowments Corporate sponsorships, and; Alternative sources of revenue. MIT OCW Future Sorry, Just invested $1.5 Million in Khan Academy!

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When Creating OER We Need to Consider… Usability Durability Durability Accessibility Accessibility Effectiveness Effectiveness

Do you have an OER (Development) Policy? Collection of institutions with OER policy: OER Guidelines:

OER Policy Development Toolkit Designed to help you review your own institutional policy environment and where necessary institute policy changes that will facilitate collaboration and the development and sharing of OER.

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4 Main Policy Issues! Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Copyright Human Resource (HR) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Materials Development and Quality Assurance Source (Page 4):

Assemble an OER Team Source (Slide 23):

Creating OER and Combining Licenses

When IP isn’t clear… Source (Slide 20):

Source (Page 178): Framework Guiding Selection and Use of OERs and Non- OERs Prof. Dr. John Arul Phillips

Sharing, Remixing & Repurposing OER Source:

OER Development Life Cycle The OER LIFE CYCLE begins with a desire or need to learn or teach something. The following sequence of steps illustrates a typical development process: NoStepsDescription 1.Find Search and find OERs using variety of OER search engines and look for existing resource lists made available online by experts. 2.Create With a collection of resources at your disposal, start fusing them together to form a learning resource. When creating OERs take into account usability, durability, accessibility and effectiveness, especially regarding format (output). 3.Localize Making a resource more useful to a particular situation (contextualizing). This may involve minor corrections and improvements, remixing components, localization and even complete rework for use in diverse contexts. 4.Remix Remixing is the act of taking two (or more) OER materials and merging them to form a new OER. 5.License Select the appropriate Creative Commons license for your OER project. 6.Use This covers the actual use of OER for your context. 7.Share Once an OER is finished, make it available for the open education community to re-use and begin the life cycle again. Before finding and remixing OERs, set the course/module/topic aims and objectives (and course outline if possible). It might change as you develop, but it is good to have a starting destination (or map). Adapted from : &

OER Evaluation Tool? To help you determine the aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community: 1.Degree of Alignment to Standards 2.Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter 3.Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching 4.Quality of Assessment 5.Quality of Technological Interactivity 6.Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice Exercises 7.Opportunities for Deeper Learning 8.Assurance of Accessibility Simplify your OWN! Simplify your OWN!