Presentation on breakfast session "Really open education" at the EU Parliament on 18-2-2014

1. Wikiwijs:
A National Program on OER
Robert Schuwer

2. Agenda
• Introduction on Wikiwijs
• Lessons learned
• The sequel
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3. National initiative: Wikiwijs
> December 2008: Minister of Education launches
Wikiwijs as a national OER initiative:
> initial focus on primary, secondary and
community college education
> but actually for all educational sectors
> April 2009: broad support in Parliament
> May 2009: OU & Kennisnet start preparing this
programme
> July 2009: delivery Programme Plan
> 12th Aug. 2009: Minister’s final OK;
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4. Wikiwijs: policy objectives
• stimulate development and use of OER
– extend options for customized education
– increase quality of education through more flexible and
up-to-date learning materials
• improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital
learning materials
• support teachers in arranging their own learning
materials and professionalization
• increase teacher involvement in development
and use of OER
– Making the profession more attractive
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5. Basic principles
• maximum (free!) use of existing components of OUNL,
Kennisnet and other publicly funded educational
organizations
• open standards and open source mandatory
• all OER learning materials and materials for
professionalization to be published under CC-BY or CC
BY-SA
– In the repository of Wikiwijs
• professionalization of both teachers and management!
• Research to measure effects on policy goals
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6. Actions
• Create portal / platform
• Communicate on OER advantages
• Involve stakeholders to create awareness on
OER
– Policy makers
– School management
– Teachers
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7. Architecture
search
Wikiwijs
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8. Assumption on quality
• Assumption: teachers are the most capable to
judge the quality of learning materials
• Not have a treshold based on some standpoint of
quality
• Providing means to make quality visible
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9. Quality measures
• Rating by peers
• Peer review
• Quality mark organizations / groups
• But most important: proficient teachers
– Professionalization!
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10. Quality mark
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11. RESULTS AND
LESSONS LEARNED
CC-BY Hester Jelgerhuis

12. Results
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>650K Building blocks available through Wikiwijs
35K Lessons available through Wikiwijs
>1M uses in 2013
>400K visits in 2013
2,5K remixes available (increase of 100% in 2013)
3K ratings averages on 6.7
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13. Lessons learned
• Quality, quality, quality
• Involving stakeholders: important but hard
• Infrastructure useful
• Development of learning materials is not for everyone
• Bottom-up and top-down should be in balance
• Sharing is not self-evident
• Wikiwijs alone is not sufficient to mainstream OER
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14. THE SEQUEL
CC-BY Hester Jelgerhuis
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15. How to proceed?
• Portal / platform service on Kennisnet
– Development and support
• Stimulation for open and online education
– early 2014 announced by current Minister of
Education Bussemaker
– for higher education
– 1M€ / year for several years
• No sequel on national level for other educational types
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16. More information and background
• Wikiwijs platform
– www.wikiwijs.nl
• Wikiwijs program plan:
– http://openserviceblog.files.wordpress.com/20
11/09/110815-wikiwijs-program-plan-20112013-def.pdf
• POERUP Country report:
– http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Netherlands
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17. Thank you!
www.robertschuwer.nl
Robert.Schuwer@ou.nl
@fagottissimo
linkedin.com/in/robertschuwer
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