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Open Educational Resources Stimulating Global
Knowledge Sharing
Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M.
Casserly September 27, 2005 The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
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Goals for Meeting

• Hewletts work and state of the OER Field
• Input on multiple OER portals
• Discuss dissemination
• Discuss sustainability
• Build synergy

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Agenda for Day

• 8.00 Introductions and General Overview
• 8.15 Hewlett Strategy - State of the Field
• 9.45 Break
• 10.00 Moving Beyond the Horizon
• 11.00 Reflections on the Strategy
• 11.30 OER and Google
• Noon Lunch
• 1.00 Windows to OER Portal Creation
• 2.00 Challenges to Disseminating OER
• 2.50 Charge for the Afternoon
• 3.30 Hike in the Logan Hills
• 7.00 Hamiltons Dinner and Discussion

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Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura

• If the world communitys special concern is
  to overcome the digital divide in order to build
  knowledge societies, then this is precisely what
  UNESCO is all about. One of our core missions is
  to promote the free exchange of ideas and
  knowledge to maintain, increase and disseminate
  knowledge through our work in education, the
  sciences, culture and communication.

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Open Educational Content Inspired By

• Open Source software movement

• Belief that knowledge and education are common
  goods
• Belief that open educational content will advance
  human knowledge, creativity, and social welfare

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Open Educational Resources

• High quality digitized materials
• Freely available on the web for use and re-use
• Focused on teaching, learning and research
• Tools for creating, using, re-using and sharing

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Which Path?
Early 2001
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Theory of Change
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Open Content OpenCourseWare
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Open Content Full Courses
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Open Content Library Collections
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Open Content Subject Area Collections
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Open Content General Collections
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Theory of Change
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Remove Barriers
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Theory of Change
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Understand and Stimulate Use
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Understand Stimulate Use

• Organized and searchable
• What users want
• Culturally appropriate
• Disseminate widely

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Portal Development
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Indicators of Strength of the OER Movement
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OCW Movement Emerging OCWs
U Mich
ParisTech
MIT, Tufts, Berkman
Notre Dame
Japan OCW Alliance
USU
Universia
JHSPH
DAU
CORE
FETP
AVU
UWC

• 36 institutions live OCW sites
• 35 institutions early development
• 11 countries and 6 languages

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Wikipedia 1.4 billion hits monthly
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Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Adoption
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Growing Global Networks
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Goals for 2006

• Build out key collections
• - OCW, full courses, content areas
• Expand use and usefulness
• Portals, distribution sites, translations,
  partners, research
• Continue building capacity
• - IP, community tools
• Sustainability a dilemma