Making Your Case

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Open Sharing, Global Benefits (Making Your Case
with your Higher Administration)
September 15, 2008 PresenterYour University
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• The OCW Story
• Connecting with Your Institutions Mission
• Connecting with Your Institutions Goals
• Addressing Cost-Effectiveness Issues
• Outlining Next Steps

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The OCW Story How it StartedTwo Questions
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The OCW Story How it StartedTwo Questions

• How is the internet going to change education?

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The OCW Story How it StartedTwo Questions

• How is the internet going to change education?
• What is MIT going to do about it?

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The OCW Story How it StartedThe Report
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The OCW Story How it StartedThe Report

• No Business Model

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The OCW Story How it StartedThe Report

• No Business Model
• Mission Model
• to advance knowledge in ways that will best
  serve the nation and the world

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The OCW Story How it StartedSupporting The
Vision

• OCW expresses MIT's goal of advancing education
  around the world through a global community in
  which knowledge and ideas are shared openly for
  the benefit of all.
• Susan Hockfield,
• President of MIT

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The OCW StoryThe OCW Consortium

• 200 institutions
• 100 live OCW sites
• 6,000 courses

http ocwconsortium.org
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What is OpenCourseWare?

• An Opencourseware (OCW) is a free and open
  educational resource for faculty, students, and
  self-learners throughout the world.
• OCW is not a distance-learning initiative there
  are no degrees granted, no student/faculty
  interactions and no transcripts.
• OCW is a collection of high-quality learning
  materials presented in the form of courses.
• OCW materials are there for the taking and for
  transformation.

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OCW is composed of
Universities working together to advance
education and empower people worldwide through
opencourseware.

• Syllabi
• Readings
• Lecture notes
• Tests/quizzes
• Lectures (video, audio)
• etc

• But OCW does not
• Provide access to faculty
• Grant credit, a certificate, or a degree.

It can be fully instructional, but does not need
to be.
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• Telling the Story
• Connecting with Your Institutions Mission
• Connecting with Your Institutions Goals
• Addressing Cost-Effectiveness Issues
• Outlining Next Steps

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Your Institution was founded with a Mission
toInsert your mission statement here

• An OCW site will help us serve that mission by
  increasing the reach and effectiveness of name
  one or more mission-oriented activities.

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• Telling the Story
• Connecting with Your Universitys Mission
• Connecting with Your Universitys Goals
• Addressing Cost-Effectiveness Issues
• Outlining Next Steps

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Connecting with Your Universitys
GoalsRecruitment

• A 2005 Poll showed that 50 of incoming MIT
  students were aware of MIT OCW.
• 35 of those students based their choice of MIT
  at least in part on their experience of MIT OCW
• By mid-October of their first year, 95 of those
  students had visited the OCW site.

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Connecting with Your Universitys
GoalsRecruitment

• Builds a prior academic relationship with bright,
  motivated students, their families, their
  teachers and their advisors
• Showcases key departments, faculty and courses

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Connecting with Your Universitys
GoalsReputation

• An OCW site can showcase areas of excellence in
  our university, such as name specific programs.
  Heightened awareness of these programs not only
  will attract talented students and faculty to our
  school but also will increase the visibility of
  our faculty within their disciplines.

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Connecting with Your Universitys GoalsRetention

• An OCW site provides students with the potential
  for self-paced review of study materials before,
  during and after taking a course. Such review
  greatly increases a students chances of success
  in both that course and subsequent courses which
  build upon its teachings.

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Connecting with Your Universitys GoalsAdvising

• The ability to view OCW materials prior to
  enrollment allows students to make more informed
  choices about which courses and majors are right
  for them.
• Likewise, advisors will be able to base their
  recommendations on concrete information about
  courses, their requirements and their benefits.

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• Telling the Story
• Connecting with Your Institutions Mission
• Connecting with Your Institutions Goals
• Addressing Cost-Effectiveness Issues
• Outlining Next Steps

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Cost-Effectiveness Controlling Costs

• Our project will make use of pre-existing
  resources, such as. . .
• Our project will share resources with other OCW
  projects, such as. . .
• Our project will engage the campus community in
  tasks such as. . .

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Cost-Effectiveness Increasing Benefits

• OCW involvement will improve on-campus or
  distance learning in these ways.
• OCW involvement will augment or assist attempts
  to address campus issues or outreach efforts in
  these ways.
• OCW publication will fulfill faculty obligations
  to promulgate the findings of grant-funded
  research in these ways.

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• Telling the Story
• Connecting with Your Institutions Mission
• Connecting with Your Institutions Goals
• Addressing Cost-Effectiveness Issues
• Outlining Next Steps

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Next StepsAssembling a TeamWork Flow?
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Next StepsAssembling a Team

• Our Chosen Work Flow Reflects These
  Considerations
• Size and Structure of Our Institution
• Our Institutional Culture
• The Flow of OCW Support
• Our Existing E-learning Resources
• Our Financial Resources
• Our Financial Sustainability
• Our Project Goals

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Next StepsSustainability Models

• Cost-Benefit Models
• Reduce costs
• Increase benefits
• Third-Party Funding Models
• Foundations, Government
• Sponsorships
• Donations
• Endowment
• Value-Added Models
• Fees for goods and services
• Membership

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Thank You! Visit The OpenCourseWare Consortium
portal at http//www.ocwconsortium.org Contact
the Consortium at feedback_at_ocwconsortium.org