The document provides an overview of open education. It defines open education as digital educational resources that are free to access, use, distribute and revise. It discusses the arguments in favor of open education, including technical, political, economic and educational benefits. Some challenges of open education mentioned include copyright issues and willingness of teachers and students to openly share educational resources and participate in open courses. Major concepts in open education discussed are open educational resources (OER), open courseware (OCW), and MOOCs (massive open online courses).

1. Open Education
P0L38 : Vraagstukken uit de educatieve technologie
Contact:
stephanie.verbeken@kuleuven.be
http://ocw.kuleuven.be

2. Presentation about Open Education
by Stephanie Verbeken
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(tenzij anders vermeld onderaan de slide)

3. Wie ben ik? • Onderwijstechnoloog @ Directie
Onderwijs & Leren (KU Leuven)
• Projectmedewerker in Onderwijsproject
"OpenCourseWare KU Leuven"
• Interesses:
• open learning en opencourseware (ocw)
• open educational resources (oer)
• distance learning
• open content licensing
• lerarenopleiding
• Contact:
• stephanie.verbeken@kuleuven.be
• @stephanie_vrbkn
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4. Inhoud presentatie “Open Education”
1. Omschrijving
2. Argumenten pro Open Education
3. Aandachtspunten/Risico’s Open Education
4. Open Education: stand van zaken

6. Omschrijving
“Open Education”

7. What is Open Education?
Adaptation of slide by Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
Open Education OER Open content
Open Educational
Resources
OpenCourseWare Text Open Access
cMOOC’s Static images Wikimedia
xMOOC’s Dynamic images OpenOffice
Video OpenSource
Sound Wikipedia
Scientific Articles Slideshare
Tables, graphs, Youtube
spreadsheet Flickr
... ...

8. What is Open Education?

9. What is Open Education?
• Open = free • Digital (online)
o as in 'free beer': no fees • Accessible to anyone,
o as in 'freedom': be free anyplace, anywhere,
anytime
Sources: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/ and
to
• REUSE learning materials: • Interdisciplinary use
copy • Quality criterium (thanks to
David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
• REDISTRIBUTE: share the bigger social control)
with others
• REVISE: edit and adapt
• REMIX: develop new
combinations

10. Why be open?

11. Several (good!)
arguments to be
open
• technical argument
• political argument
• economical argument
• evolutionary argument
• educational argument

12. Technical argument:
There is, technically spoken, no education without being Open
Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent

13. Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
Political argument:

14. Economical arguments:
• Won't editors' businesses crash?
o Research1 shows evidence that in many cases the
sale of books increases when an online version is
offered open (and for free)
• Exposure
Source: David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
o organisational level
• university
• school
o individual level
• teachers
• researchers

15. Evolutionary argument:
• Being Open
 Quantity of feedback will increase
 Benefits for your course materials
 Benefits for your own students
• Being open and creative / innovative
 More exposure
 More feedback
 Etc...

16. Educational arguments
Presence in the educational world
Use open courses to show to candidate students what your education
looks like Take away their doubts about the educational culture and the level of
courses at university: "will I be able to understand the scientific articles
that are part of the course materials at university?"
Use open courses to give students extra study support
By opening up 'stumble courses' and providing them with weblectures, students can
rewatch the lecture. They get a second chance to understand the learning content.
Use open courses to support students with
learning difficulties or disabilities
Easily adapt learning materials to e.g. visually impaired students.
Or provide weblectures with subtitles to help hearing-impaired
students.
Teach your students in a "flipped classroom" system
Let them gather the information by taking an Open Course, online, before they
come to class. In the classroom you can come to deep
level learning using interaction between students.

17. So...
Why NOT be Open?

18. Aandachtspunten

19. Problem Solution / Actions
• Copyright © • Creative Commons
Licenties
• Willingness to Open one’s • Spread the word
own Education
• Willingness to use other • Let people feel connected,
teacher’s (or student’s!) be part of community
OER  hesitation 
• Motivation of open • In quest… 
students, accreditation,
quality control,…

20. Open Education
State Of The Art

21. Most important concepts

22. Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
OER
(1) OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)

23. (2) OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW)
"A course is a package of educational materials starting at a particular point
in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to
a greater understanding of the issue or topic"
Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
OCW
-seal:
study guides to
guide course
takers: how to get
OER
from A to B?

24. • An Open Course can be an original source or course: a
self developped course, constituted by self developed
content
Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
OR
• because of the 'sharing character' of OER and OCW
o translation
o combination of several courses (whether they are
orginal or not)
o etc...
cfr. 4R's

25. (3) MOOC’S
Sources: Robert Schuwer; Etmooc.org; Reflections & Contemplations; Jaap Soft

26. Vragen?

27. Contact
stephanie.verbeken@kuleuven.be
ocw@kuleuven.be
@stephanie_vrbkn
@ocw_kuleuven