1. OECD, Paris 8/9 December 2008 Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research

2. The Internet, Information and Innovation
OECD 8/9 December 2008
The Internet, Information and Innovation
Dr Malcolm Read
JISC Executive Secretary
12/11/2018 | Supporting education and research | Slide 2

3. The Internet Internet essential for Learning and Teaching:
Communication, content, social networking
Internet essential for Research:
Collaboration, content/data, access to resources
Internet essential for management:
Student applications, outreach, marketing, international

4. Information Resources
Online learning and teaching material
Student records/achievements
Research outputs – scholarly communication
Research data
Finance information/HR information
Government statistics

5. Innovation By: Strategic management of information
joined up educational content and on-line learning
Open access and institutional repositories

6. Open
Source
Standards
Access
Content

7. Open Content Scholarly Communications/IPR Research data
NIH:
EU Seventh Framework Open Access Pilot
Research data
Educational content
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/open-access-pilot_en.pdf

8. Open Educational Content (OEC)
RATIONALE
Encourage the sharing of content between institutions, between academics and within communities of practice
Encourage development and uptake of new generation tools that will enhance both productivity and relevance by being customisable and adaptable by both academics and students
Marketing tool where students can view content produced by an institution prior to applying to study there
Learning materials and resources can be shared universally - locally, nationally and globally to support e-learning

9. OEC Benefits
Increased student satisfaction concerning the quality of learning materials
Increased applications to UK HEI courses from international, and non-traditional, learners
Enhancement of global academic reputation of the UK HE system;
Improved VFM and added value through a shared service, adding to the ethos of collegiality
Significant increase in the open availability and use of free high quality online content
Advertising and marketing benefits to individual lecturers, HEIs and UK education, opening up universities to potential students
Opportunity to recognise and reward the contribution of teaching within HEIs and recognise teaching professorships

10. Existing Evidence
MIT OpenCourseWare initiative materials seen 1 million unique users each month (
ParisTech OCW project France, 800 educational resources from around 100 teaching units made available by 11 member universities (
China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium: 750 courses made available by 222 university members ( )
Open University’s OpenLearn materials have been accessed 1.7 million times in the last 18 months (

11. UK Ambitions Core of UK open access learning resources
Organised coherently
Supported by national centres of excellence
Quality control
Essential updating
Skills training
Research and development
All HEIs encouraged and helped to exploit virtual education technologies as appropriate to their student’s requirements and their strategies

12. Open Research Data
Central theme of open research is to make clear accounts of research methodology, along with data and results, freely available via the internet. This permits massively distributed collaboration.
Primary research data are posted which can be added to/interpreted by anybody who has the necessary expertise and who can therefore join the collaborative effort. This ability to amend data distinguishes open research from open access
JISC-funded My Experiment project ( enables researchers to easily find, use and share scientific workflows and other files, and to build communities.
Indian government just launched the Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative ( which aims to provide a global platform for collaboration to discover novel therapies for diseases like Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Leshmaniasis

13. International Benefits
Underpin provision of unmet demand, (e.g. in South East Asia and the developing world)
UK Higher Education’s contribution to the public good and the developing world