Overview of the Open Education movement: OER, MOOCs and beyond. Presented at the Nexa Centre of Politecnico di Torino.

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Open Education.
Fabio Nascimbeni
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja
NEXA Lunch
27 April 2016

3. The range of "Open"
eInfranet Report – FP7

4. Open Content
By David Wiley, 1998
Any copyrightable work (traditionally excluding software, which
is described by other terms like "open source") that is licensed in
a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission
to engage in the 5R activities:
 Retain
 Reuse
 Revise
 Remix
 Redistribute
http://www.opencontent.org/definition/

5. MIT, 2001 (Open Courseware)
UNESCO, 2002 Paris Declaration
“educational materials and resources offered
freely and openly for anyone to use and under
some license to re-mix, improve and
redistribute.”
“drawing upon open technologies that facilitate
collaborative, flexible learning and the open
sharing of teaching practices that empower
educators to benefit from the best ideas of
their colleagues. It may also grow to include
new approaches to assessment, accreditation
and collaborative learning.”
Cape Town Declaration, 2007
Open Educational Resources (OER)

6. Examples of OER

7. Open Educational Practices (OEP)
Ehlers et al. 2011 OPAL project

8. MOOCs
2008: First MOOC “CCK08 “Connectivism and Content Knowledge”, Canada
Media and investors attention: Coursera, Edx, OpenUpEd….
2011: MOOC by Stanford University on AI, 160.000 students from 190
countries
xMOOCs vs cMOOCs
Growing: 345 universities offering,
With 2 new MOOCs per day issued
Low retention but big numbers
Are MOOCs open?
MOOCs and educational divide

9. 2B$
for
OER
Open Education policy

10. The impact might be deeper than you
might think

11. Booming demand for HE
2011 2025
Worldwide Participants in Tertiary
Education, 2011 and 2025 Projected
In order to
accommodate these
98 million new
students, four major
universities of
30,000+ students
would need to open
every week for the
next 15 years
Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-world/2001128.article; OECD indicators Education at a Glance 2012
and Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution, UNESCO 2009
165M
263M

12. •Alternative
copyright
Licensing
•A range of
financial
models
•Affordances
of the
Internet
•Change in
philosophy
Social Technical
LegalFinancial
Enablers of Open Education

13. IPTS 2016
Dimensions of Open Education

14. A new idea of university?

15. fabio.nascimbeni@unir.net
@fabionascimbeni