Open Educational Resources for Global Collaboration: Introduction, Guidelines and Case Study

1. Open Educational Resources for Global Collaboration: Introduction, Guidelines and Case Study Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski Worksheets and further material available from jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi

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4. …Jyväskylä, Finland… Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]

5. …Jyväskylä, Finland… Source: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/, http://www.laajavuori.com/]

6. University of Jyväskylä • Founded in 1934 • Nearly 15.000 degree students in seven faculties. • Approximately 2.500 Staff members. • About 700 Research Staff • Excellence Centre nominated by the Finnish Academy e.g. in Learning and Motivation Research

7. Global Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä (JYU) - The Team Denis Kozlov Philipp Holtkamp Kati Clements Henri Pirkkalainen Jan M. Pawlowski My background • Ph.D. Business Information Systems, University of Essen • Habilitation “Quality Management / Integration of Knowledge Management and E-Learning” • Professor in “Global Information Systems” • Chair CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning Technologies • ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Project Editor

8. JYU: Global Information Systems Focus areas • Global Information Systems • Supporting globally distributed workgroups • Open Educational Resources • Reference Modeling • E-Learning • Supporting international education settings • Cultural adaptation • Standardization & Quality Management • Mobile & Ambient Learning • Innovative tools and solutions Projects • OpenScout: OER for Management • TELMAP: Technology Forecasting • NORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and Training • COSMOS, Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific Content • ASPECT: Open Content and standards for schools • iCOPER: New standards for educational technologies • LaProf: Language learning in ICT and agriculture

9. Are Open Educational Resources a solution for you??? Imagine… • …you need to set up a new training course • …your budget for trainings was cut • …you have only 2 days to prepare a new training • …you are renewing your organizations strategy • …you want to improve working with colleagues abroad • … you want to develop the highest quality resources for your students / staff!

10. Workshop Outcomes • Exploring the opportunities of Open Education, Repositories, Resources in an international context • Ability to search and find resources fitting your needs • Identifying adaptation needs and requirements • Ability to estimate the adaptation effort • Evaluating tools and services

11. Agenda

12. Agenda

13. Introduce yourself… 9.00 – 09.30 Introduction of participants and trainers • Please introduce yourself briefly: • Your affiliation • Your experience with E-Learning and Open Educational Resources • What you expect from the workshop?

14. Contents What are OER? Concepts and approaches Barriers of OER use Case Study Results: How does it work in the real life in Finland? Recommdenation Systems in the Future: Building yournetworks

15. OER: Concepts • Definitions: • Technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes". (UNESCO, 2002) • But: Commercial purposes shall not be excluded • Any digital object which can be freely accessed and used for educational purposes

16. Variety of OER… • Resources: • learning objects (specific digital objects created for learning purposes) • multimedia documents, simulations but also simple html web resources. • Articles, textbooks and digital equivalents: • articles, papers, books or journals • Open Access • Software tools • producing / authoring learning resources, communication and collaboration. • Open Source or Free Software • Instructional / didactical designs and experiences • access to instructional designs, didactical plannings • such as lesson plans, case studies or curricula • sharing experiences about materials and lessons between colleagues • Open Educational Practices. • Web assets: • simple resources (assets) • pictures, links, or short texts • not usable on their own in a learning context but can be used to support or illustrate a certain topic • found by google or similar search engines.

17. Open Educational Resources…

18. Social Networks (Solis) Source: B.D. Solis: http://www.sortingthoughts.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2735401175_fcdcd0da03.jpg

19. Sample contents • Maknaz • http://maknaz.elc.edu.sa/portal/ • OpenScout • http://www.openscout.net • Mace Project (technology base) • http://www.mace-project.eu • ITunes University • http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ • OpenLearn (Open University UK) • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • Globe Network (Federation) • http://www.globe-info.org/ • Ariadne Foundation (Europe) • http://www.ariadne-eu.org/

20. Some more… • http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ • http://www.ariadne-eu.org/ • http://www.learningcommons.org/educators/library/gem.php • http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm • http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/ • http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_and_Open_Educational_Resources • http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/ • http://portal.mace-project.eu/ • http://www.openscout.net • http://lreforschools.eun.org/ • http://globe-info.org • http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/

21. The starting point… • Waste amount of content is available in repositories, a large number of experts and users are active in social networks • Great potentials for collaboration, sharing and social innovation • What are barriers and opportunities?

22. European teachers find resources…

24. So, why doesn’t it work in Education? • Potentials & needs • Education budget • Focus on new stuff • Cooperation and synergies • Skills in the use of ICT and tools • Enormous resource pools • Barriers • “not invented here” • “Education is something special!” • “I have no time” • Googling might not be enough • Complex tools • Curriculum integration • Insecurities • …

25. Recommendations of resources and people…

26. Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use The solution? Finding resources! Usefulness? Quality? Rights?

27. Preparing a new course – finding appropriate materials for re-use The solution? Finding people! Trustworthiness?

28. Our study • What do we need to form a community of practice? • What are problems which can occur when using Open Content?

29. 36 teachers in Central Finland 44 teachers around Europe (Belgium, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal) Teachers were from the fields of IT, Maths and Science Finnish teachers vs. European teachers

30. Experiences from our Case Study: Sharing of materials made by others Conclusion: Finnish teachers are more willing to use materials made by others than European teachers

31. Sharing: Who would you give your materials to? Conclusion: Finnish teachers are less willing to give materials to others than European teachers

32. But… • Overall, the willingness to share materials with other teachers is high • How far the teachers sharing materials from each other are – doesn’t seem to matter! • In our world in 2010: Physical distance to a colleague does not affect trust???

34. First degree trusted network Topic / ContextA Topic / ContextB Second degree trusted network Collaboration network construction • Efficient network organization is the key to success • Tools are needed to facilitate the process • Open Issues: • Factors? • Organization? • The right network?

35. Building collaboration networks • Building networks of colleagues • By topic • By trust • By proximity • Manually…or automatically… • Using collaboration networks • Social networks • International communities • Collaboration competency as the key success factor for future teaching!

36. Predictions • Strong worldwide networks will be built (e.g. GLOBE Initiative) • Trusted communities should be established, e.g., initiatives between partner countries with similar or mutually beneficial backgrounds (KSA – Finland?) • No one fits all (facebook-alike) community but sub networks • Starting point: The large social business & leisure networks as well as special interest sites

37. Predictions • Organized by location, interest and trust-levels • No more than 3 networks • Connections to various open content sources • Integration of tools & support

38. Challenges • Internationalization strategies and tools in global, in particular north-south cooperations • Business models: Add-on services and commercialization strategies • Trust awareness and specification mechanisms • Getting started…

39. European Initiatives: NORDLET • A Nordic Baltic cooperation for Open Education • Working in a region with great potentials for open education • Tradition of education as part of the society • Flexible and rapid educational changes • Can we work cooperatively towards open education?

40. European Initiatives: NORDLET • Content space: Access to Baltic Nordic resources • Starting point for collaboration • Discussion and debate: Focus topics • Regional events • Clustering conference • Links to social networks: facebook, …

41. NORDLET

42. Search Validate re-usability Re-use / adapt Validate solution Re-publish European Initiatives: OpenScout Continuous learning in management … • Development of management skills essential • Growing need for learning materials • Diverse topics, up-to-date, high-quality, inexpensive • Easy to access, skill-specific, adaptable, re-usable • Open educational management content available, but many usage barriers … utilizing openly accessible learning materials • Easy-to-use web services to access open content • Support all phases of using open learning materials

43. OpenScout Consortium authoring, adaptation content federation industrial learning technology, content connectors skill & competence services user community reference scenarios, evaluation

44. USER COMMUNITY (Large scale) Open Scout Architecture USER COMMUNITY (Early adopters) ….. iGoogle Tool library Service library Connector (Enterprise Service Bus, ESB) Social Networks Toolkit collection Tool recommendations Competence browsing and search Basic Search Social Networking Re-publish FM ….. Metadata about users, usage and tools CLIX User profiles Social Metadata Usage Metadata tool profiles LCMS OpenScout repository federation Repositories Harvested LOM OpenLearn Harvest ….. OpenScoutportal Slidestar Domain classification Enriched LOM (AP) OpenScout website ….. OpenER Competence metadata Content Enrichment Almost done At least 1 evaluation done Started…In progress Planned, not implemented

45. Key aspects • Largest European access point for management, business and related areas • Competence –based learning • Fitting your curriculum • Tools and services • Which tool for which process • Community of trusted colleagues

46. Open Scout Prototype • Widget-based user-interface which enable users to access the provided services in a user-friendly and convenient way, e.g. searching and retrieving of related learning objects.

47. Consider networks… • Work on shared teaching and development • Use, add, discuss contents • Find people and materials • Develop the idea of open education

48. Adapting and Internationalizing OER: Background, Practices, Applications, and Case Study Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski

49. Sample Task • Design a blended learning course on water management for teachers • Small budget available, high quality needed • Key decision: make or buy • Or collaborate!

50. The adaptation process • Key issues • How to internationalize materials? • What is the effort? • Which materials are promising and useful? Search Adapt Share & Exchange