18. Evolution: Free Education
“Death of Distance”
• Global
telecommunications
• Satellites
• Wireless
• Internet
Atlas of Cyberspaces
19.
20. Why OER?
• DRM (digital rights management)
• Digital licenses
21. DRM (Digital Rights
Management)
You CANNOT
• Copy & paste, annotate, highlight
• Text to speech
• Format change
• Move material
• Print out
• Move geographically
• Use after expiry date
• Resell
23. Digital Licenses
•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight
• Text to speech or hyperlink
• Format change
• Move material to another computer
• Print out
• Move geographically
• Use after expiry date
• Resell
• Prohibited to show your content to others
• Must accept that you have NO rights
• Owners have NO liability even if product doesn’t work
• Owners can “invade” your computer without permission
• Collect & use personal data
• User has a “privilege” to use the product not own it
24. Open ETextbooks
•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight √
• Text to speech or hyperlink √
• Format change √
• Move material to other computer √
• Print out √
• Move geographically √
• No expiry date √
• Reuse/Remix/Mash √
•Retain privacy and digital rights √√
25. Access Rights?
Vendors can control how,
when, where, and with what
specific brands of
technological assistance
audiences are able to access
content
30. 2007: Alec Couros
Social Media and Open Education
Open online course sessions with guest experts
from around the world
http://eci831.wikispaces.com/Session+List
31. 2008: CCK08
Stephen Downes, George Siemens
The First Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_2008
32. Why is CCK08 the First MOOC?
It combines open content (Wiley)
and open teaching (Couros)
But also…
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_2008
38. Mobile learning?
+2 billion Internet connexions
World population: 7 billion
¼ of the world’s population
http://www.soil-net.com/album/Places_Objects/slides/Globe%20Planet%20Earth%20NASA.jpg
39. Global Internet usage
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
0
500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2.500
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Per100inhabitants
millions
Individuals using the Internet (in millions)
Individuals using the Internet per 100 inhabitants
Global numbers of individuals using the Internet,
total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011
International Telegraph Union 2012
40. Global Mobile phone subscriptions
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Per100inhabitants
Mobile-celullarsubscriptions(millions)
Subscriptions (in millions)
Per 100 inhabitants
Global mobile-cellular subscriptions, total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011
Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database
43. Mobile Signal Coverage
Percentage of the world's population covered by a mobile cellular signal,
2003 compared to 2010
2003
39% not covered
61% covered
Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database
2010
10% not
covered
90% covered
44. Mobile Telephony
2000
Total 719 million
Developed
Developing
The developed/developing country classifications are based on the UN
M49, see:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.html
Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database
2005
Developing
Developed
Total 2.2 billion
2011
Total 6 billion
Developing
Developed
45. Mobile learning
4.5 billion mobile subscriptions
1.5 billion mobile internet
users
1/3 only access
internet via mobile
90% of world population is covered by cellular
More time
spent on
Internet
with
Mobile
than with
desktops
52. Sakshat $20 laptop
Affordable Computing
India to unveil the £7 laptop
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's
cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich
and poor
57. • Each team faces a fast-paced, complicated series of
obstacles called quests, and each player, via his online
avatar, must contribute to resolving them or else lose his
place on the team
• "It takes exactly the same skill set people will need
more of in the future to collaborate on work
projects”
» Rob Carter, CEO FedEx
65. OER
•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight √
• Text to speech or hyperlink √
• Format change √
• Move material to other computer √
• Print out √
• Move geographically √
• No expiry date √
• Reuse/Remix/Mash √
•Retain privacy and digital rights √√
66. The restriction of the
commons by patents,
copyright, and databases
[right] is not in the interests of
society and unduly hampers
scientific endeavour.
67. “On the part of rich
countries there is
excessive zeal for
protecting knowledge
through an unduly rigid
assertion of the right to
intellectual property . . .”
- Pope Benedict XVI
68. “On the part of rich countries
there is excessive zeal for
protecting knowledge
through an unduly rigid
assertion of the right to
intellectual property . . .”
- Pope Benedict
XVI
69.
70. "Let's put all this hype about change and
transformation in perspective. It's underhyped."
"There's something
coming after us, and I
imagine it is something
wonderful.” "
Danny Hillis, Wired
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