Presentation of Anka Mulder at the OCWC Symposium on Open Education in Florianopolis, Brazil about the global trends in Open Education. Date: 30 October 2012

1. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Open Education: Global Trends
October 2012
Anka Mulder, President OCW Consortium,
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Secretary General Delft University of Technology

2. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
I. Global Trends in Higher Education
II. Open & Online?
III. OCW & Open Education
IV. Next steps
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3. Universities working together to advance education and
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Demand is increasing
• Unesco: in 2025 there will be 80 million more
students in higher education

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STUDENTS CHANGE
Motivation
Can education be interesting and entertaining?
Any time, any place
Life long learners
Combine education & work
Access
Value for Money - Price of Higher Education

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Governments
expectations change
Teach more students
For a lower price
Higher quality
Teach high school graduates as
well as life long learners
Be global

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HOW CAN TRADITIONAL HIGHER
EDUCATION:
• meet student demands?
• address government needs?
• teach 80 million more students?

7. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
I. Global Trends in Higher
Education
II. Open & Online?
III. OCW & Open Education
IV. Next steps
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Complicated
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Not personal
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Education has been like this for
centuries
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1897
Public School 1897:
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Public Domain
Source: (John Trevor Custis) 1897 Book-The Public schools of
Philadelphia: historical, biographical, statistical By John Trevor
Custis

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2012
Bron: TU Delft

12. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
I. Global Trends in Higher
Education
II. Open & Online?
III. OCW & Open Education
IV. Next steps
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empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Open Content Examples:
Open •Video lectures
Educational •Readers
Resources
•Practice tests
OCW
•Links

14. Over 280 institutions and organizations
Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
worldwide supporting open sharing in education

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http://ocwconsortium.org

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Number of courses from members

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Comparing OCW to Open Education
OpenCourseWare Open Education
• Syllabi, Lectures notes & • Complete learning
Videos experience
• Sample homework & • Scored homework &
exams exams
• Textbooks • Community /Discussion
• No grade / certificate • Grade / Certificate

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Developments in Open Education

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Open Education
changes the Higher Education
Scenery
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Back to obstacles
• Complicated
• Not personal
• Education has been like this for centuries

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How difficult is it really?
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How personal is this?
Bron: TU Delft

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How normal is it that teaching
has not changed?
Ford Assembly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_assembly_line_-_1913.jpg Public
DomainCC BY Phasmatisnox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FANUC_6-axis_welding_robo

24. Universities working together to advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
I. Global Trends in Higher
Education
II. Open & Online?
III. OCW & Open Education
IV. Next steps
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empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Future of Open & Online
Education
• It will not go away
• It can help us meet demand
• Brick & mortar universities are well positioned
to take up Open Education
• Top universities are embracing it
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What does this mean for OCW
Consortium
• From supply to demand
• From information to learning
• Addressing governments’ needs
• Taking new developments into account
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JOIN US!
Visit The OpenCourseWare Consortium portal at
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
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Universities working together toof free, open, high-quality
worldwide sharing and use advance education and
empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
education materials organized as courses.
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