Slide 1 Update on Open Education Resources William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Sally M. Johnstone Winona State university, MN, USA 3 June 2007 SCOP 2007, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Slide 2 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Achievements, Challenges & Opportunities - D.E. Atkins, J. S. Brown & A. L. Hammond (2007) Open Educational Resources Materials released under license permitting free use and/or repurposing by others Hewlett OER Goals To help equalize access to knowledge and educational opportunities across the world Why OER? Knowledge as public good + www = extraordinary opportunity for sharing, use, and reuse of knowledge and tools to help others learn.

Slide 3 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Hewlett Investments in OER ActivityInvestment TOTAL$68 M Creation & Dissemination$43 M Reducing Barriers, Stimulating Use & Understanding$25 M Non-U.S. (in above) 50/50 split developed & developing $12 M

Slide 4 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program OER Movement: Impact to Date Catalyst for creating OER movement (field & community) International consortium with complimentary roles and systematic balance Catalyzed a culture of contribution in major academic institutions Built capacity for international engagement

Slide 5 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Challenges Sustainability Curation and preservation of access Object granularity & format diversity Intellectual property issues Content quality assessment & enhancement Access infrastructure Scale-up & deepening impact in developing countries

Slide 6 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Recommended approach.. An infrastructure initiative Fundamentally social and technical.. An entire ecosystem – not just pipes and wires Fostered, not built Infrastructure results from creating interoperability between systems Built on what has already been done; leveraging prior investments Potential for significant impact within a decade

Slide 7 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure Developed by ‘searchers’ not ‘planners’ that adapt to local systems Not built all at once or globally, but built in modular increments Needs a platform for exchange & development What is minimal framing to allow maximal potential for growth & innovation?

Slide 8 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Teachers assessing quality of OER, cost/benefit, and modify materials Learners using OER and providing feedback on effectiveness plus new materails Feedback loop Assessing quality and ensuring continuous improvement Leading to Better knowledge Knowledge growth Improved efficiency Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure Example

Slide 9 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Update on a few current activities for SCUP members

Breaking the Language Barrier Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS) Four editors and over 16,000 volunteers translating OER materials into Chinese LUCIFER CHU Chinese translator of "The Lord of the Rings"

By April 2007 OOPS had completed translations of 178 courses, and more than 600 partial ones. Thirty-five are good enough that M.I.T. links to them directly.

Another approach to Translation China Open Resources for Education (CORE) –Translating and developing Open CourseWare through a national consortium to assist Chinese universities in OER activities

CORE Members Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Normal University Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Central Radio and TV University Central South University China University of Geosciences - Beijing China University of Geosciences - Wuhan China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Dalian University of Technology Fudan University Guangxi University Nanjing University Northeast Agricultural University Northeast University Northwest University Peking University Renmin University of China Shanghai Jiaotong University Shanxi University Sichuan University Tianjin University Tibet University Tsinghua University University of International Business and Economics University of Petroleum - Beijing University of Science and Technology Beijing University of Science and Technology of China Xi'an Jiaotong University Zhejiang University

Open CourseWare Consortium Over 150 institutional members worldwide Over 4,200 courses in nine languages Receiving 2.5 M hits a month.

Slide 15 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Starting to overcome one challenge …. OER Portal

Slide 17 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Visions for next steps Continue translation efforts and the exploration of new models Continue to seek understanding of design constraints for wider use Consider Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure that develops through cooperation (not a push model) Co-lateral learning Participatory design

Slide 18 Hewlett Foundation - Education Program Thank you