1. Goede redenen voor Open
Educational Resources:
Waarom universiteiten beter
worden van Open Policies
Frederik Truyen, Studiedag Leiden,
Juni 2011

2. OER definition
• "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits their
free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational
resources include full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software,
and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to
support access to knowledge."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

3. Waarom zou Universiteit Leiden
Open cursussen aanbieden?
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1. Exposure
2. Internationalisering
3. Mainstreaming
4. Kwaliteitsbewaking
5. Levenslang Leren

4. Knowledge economy
• Learning economy
• Bengt-Åke Lundvall
• Creative economy
• Charles Landry, John Howkins, Richard Florida
• Open knowledge economy
• Yochai Benkler
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge
Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness. British
Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.

5. Reframing Resources
• Open Educational Resources
go beyond Learning materials
and involve the stakeholder communities
and key actors involved in the relevant
knowledge domains
• The ultimate Open Educational Resource
is part of the social network that warrants the
supply chain, validates the knowledge claims,
and makes it sustainable and fosters its
growth

6. Course
• a summary of a field
• structure and an outline
• references and links
• teaching & learning activities
• intensity, depth
• assessment
• authority
as a defining feature
for the structure and purpose of OER, in providing:

7. Teaching
Community
Local
Stakeholders
and
actors
Scientific
Community
Journals
Organisations
ConferencesExercises
Blogs & wiki's
Course notes
Books
Experts
Products
Exploitation
Archives
Libraries
Professionals
Users
Stakeholders
Publishers
Assessment

8. Good reasons for OER
• Widening Participation & LifeLong Learning
• Internationalization
• Exposure & Mainstreaming
• Reaching out to stakeholders
• Quality control / Cost control
• Learning in the Digital Age
• Interdisciplinary research

9. Widening Participation
• LifeLong Learning
• Accessibility
• Reaching out to professional
communities

10. Internationalization
• Enhanced visibility and
findability
• Possibility to engage
students at a distance
• International collaboration
and sharing of workload

11. Exposure
• For the institution
• For the individual teacher

12. Mainstreaming
• In a regional context
• feeding the web

13. Stakeholder
communities
• Regional expertise networks
and knowledge anchor
points
• Fostering participation

14. Quality Control
• Public scrutiny
• Originality
• Benchmarking

15. Cost control
• Re-use economics
• Filling the gaps
• Reducing authoring cost

16. Learning in the
Digital Age
• Personal Learning
Environment
• Flexible learning
• Remediation of knowledge
gaps
• Community translations

17. Interdisciplinary
Research
• Increased exposure of
insights to other domains
• Sharing of concepts and
methods
• Tracking trends

18. The role
of the university
• A Regional duty with an international scope
• Relevant, well-structured reference materials
for the broader community
• Embedded in an international framework

19. De meerwaarde van het aanbod
Leiden zal vooral bestaan in:
1. De inhoud
2. De begeleiding
3. Het regionale netwerk
4. De internationale inbedding
5. De onderliggende
educatieve visie

21. Thank you!