Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Open Educational Resources and Practices for Educational CrossBorder Collaboration UNESCO Workshop, WSIS 2012 Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski Geneva, 16.05.2012 Open Educational Resources… Resources: Learning materials, courses, simulations Tools: LMS, collaboration tools, … Practices and experiences! How to make an “OER difference” on a global scale? How to utilize OER for global collaborations across borders and cultures? Workshop Program Key questions – Which policies and strategies support cross-border OER sharing and mutually beneficial collaborations? – Which practices have been successful? – Which actions do we need to initiate to create mutually beneficial networks across the globe? Speakers – Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland: Towards a global free sharing area: Sharing open educational resources in trusted networks: The case of OpenScout – Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada: OER: Why they are needed in education around the world? – Tore Hoel, CEN Workshop Learning Technologies & Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway: The future of OER and learning technology standards – the case of Open Discovery Space – Jutta Treviranus, OCAD University: Meeting the needs of the learners - The FLOE project Towards a global free sharing area Sharing open educational resources in trusted networks: The case of OpenScout #openscout Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski Geneva, 16.05.2012 Contents Why it does not work…Barriers of OER use Case Study Results: How does it work in the real life in Finland? The Case of OpenScout: Building your networks Licensing: Creative Commons You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://www.slideshare.net/jan.pawlowski The License in plain words… All slides in this set can be used for noncommercial purposes (academic, general) If you like to use my slides, just inform me by sending a mail: [email protected] If you modify the slides, please send me your version If you use the slide for a commercial course, contact me and we agree how to arrange this The starting points Large amount of content is available in repositories, a large number of experts and users are active in social networks Great potentials for collaboration, sharing and social innovation OER is a big topic for the E-Learning community Current trends – From contents to context – From repositories to practices – From (technology-supported) mass sharing to humanoriented, trusted networks The OpenScout perspective – Resources and tools around OER for management and business – Community and local stakeholders – Interest in global collaborations – Great starting point for a free sharing area… Experiences from our Case Study: Sharing of materials made by others Whose Materials would you use? 100,00 % 80,00 % 60,00 % 40,00 % 20,00 % 0,00 % Finnish Teachers European Teachers Colleagues at Colleagues from Colleagues from Colleagues from the same school the same elsewhere in my outside my geographical country country area Sharing: Who would you give your materials to? Who would you give your materials to? 100,00 % 90,00 % 80,00 % 70,00 % 60,00 % 50,00 % 40,00 % 30,00 % 20,00 % 10,00 % 0,00 % Finnish Teachers European Teachers Colleagues at the same school Colleagues Colleagues Colleagues from the from from outside same elsewhere in my country geographical my country area None of the above But… Overall, the willingness to share materials with other teachers is high Willingness to share across Europe countries is high, the context seems positive But: It still does not work… So, why doesn’t it work in Education? - Barriers – “not invented here” – “Education is something special!” – “I have no time” – Googling might not be enough – Complex tools – Curriculum integration – Insecurities –… + Potentials & needs – Education budget – Focus on new stuff – Cooperation and synergies – Skills in the use of ICT and tools – Enormous resource pools How to make it work… Focus on good practices Improved recommendations Curriculum integration Addressing cultural barriers Providing simple tools and support mechanisms for adaptation Integration of users’ requirements, barriers, needs and preferences Using existing networks and professional contacts – OpenScout! European Initiatives: OpenScout Continuous learning in management … Development of management skills essential Growing need for learning materials – Diverse topics, up-to-date, high-quality, inexpensive – Easy to access, skill-specific, adaptable, re-usable Open educational management content available, but many usage barriers … utilizing openly accessible learning materials Easy-to-use web services to access open content Support all phases of using open learning materials Search Validate reusability Re-use / adapt Validate solution Re-publish The OpenScout project Portal at learn.openscout.net – Single access point for business and management content – Finding learning materials around the globe – Providing simple tools to use and adapt these materials – Creating a social environment where communities can collaborate – Integrating the services and tools to existing solutions of organizations (LMSs, KMSs, Social networks etc.) – Our users • Higher education and Business Schools • SMEs and large organizations worldwide (vocational training) • Librarians, consultants etc. Consider networks… Work on shared teaching and development Use, add, discuss contents Find people and materials Develop the idea of open education Summary Free Sharing area is still far away… OER as a great opportunity for global collaborations in education and training Not as frequently used as experts were hoping due to a variety of barriers Need to build strong global networks based on existing communities (e.g. OpenScout for Management and Business) Mutual learning and experience exchange Continuous improvement of education! Let’s stop hesitating, let’s overcome barriers, let’s start to collaborate! Contact us… Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski [email protected] GLIS on the web… http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow OpenScout http://learn.openscout.net