1. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Opening Doors to Knowledge and Education Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Catherine M. Casserly The Hewlett Foundation July 17, 2007 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

2. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Amartya Sen The elimination of “unfreedoms” – with respect to knowledge, education, health, etc. Investment in human capital creates positive multiplier effects on family and next generation. Photo by TikkunGer via Flickr, cc license

3. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education A Challenge: Too Many on the Outside, Looking In Photo by mathew ramsey via Flickr Photo by joepub via Flickr Photo by kawaface via Flickr Photo by Shavar via Flickr Photo by Felipe Pimentel via Flickr

4. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Promise The Progress The Obstacles The Future

5. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Promise

6. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education What is OER? High quality educational content and tools Open on the Web All languages Usable and re-usable Available on any device

7. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Vision: Photo by ForestForTrees via Flickr, cc license Equalize access to knowledge Dramatically improve teaching and learning

8. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Types of OERs Open… CourseWare…courses…books… journals… images…video lectures… textbooks…podcasts…lesson plans encyclopedias Efforts in… India,Vietnam, China, Europe, Africa, United States, Canada, Brazil Universities, K-12, libraries, publishing

9. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Free, available to all any time, any where. Creates opportunities for use and re-use Allows localization (translations, changes for different audiences) Allows corrective improvement and other feed back (fast feedback loop leading to rapid development) Added Value of OER

10. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Progress:

11. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education

12. global OER repository: open to contributions from authors worldwide XML technology enables remix into customized web courses and inexpensive print textbooks peer review for quality control Creative Commons attribution license enables commercial use and sustainability

13. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Place exemplars into a “remixable” space to seed the creative process Open University UK sandbox for educators and learners

14. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Obstacles

15. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Some of The Obstacles Intellectual Property Localization and Translation Interoperability Sustainability

16. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption

17. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Sustainability: Leveraging the “Long Tail” Example – Prelinger Videos, Eve Gray from HSRC in South Africa “Big Hits”

18. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Translation: CORE, OOPS and Universia

19. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education The Future

20. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education A Revolution in Learning

21. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education More bandwidth, increasing processing power, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid growth of mobile devices, decreasing costs… Increase capacity to access, collaborate, personalize, and create

22. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Create, Share and Improve High Quality Materials Fast feedback loops that engage rapid cycles of improvement of teaching materials: textbooks, lesson plans

23. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Learn by Doing To become a scientist, architect, or computer programmer…must learn to think and practice like one Surgery SimulatorDiscover Babylon MIT iLabs

24. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Accelerated Learning: Cognitively Informed Web- based Instruction

25. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education UN World Food Program: Food Force Federation of American Scientists: Immune Attack Carnegie Mellon: PeaceMaker Immersive Teaching and Games Learn through structured play

26. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Current Thinking Teaching & Learning Examples Infrastructure

27. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Support organizational arrangements (e.g.) OCW Consortium Supporting standards setting efforts Creative Commons – IP issues Convening and network building Communication Infrastructure – Possible Components

28. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Concrete and Significant Examples of How OER can be Used to Accomplish Teaching and Learning Goals

29. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Maximize use Sustainability Use and re-use Quality – different ways of ensuring Addresses a social problem Substantial significance – both the problem and the demonstration Criteria for thinking about Examples

30. Opening the World to Knowledge and Education Opening The World to Knowledge and Education http://www.Hewlett.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.