[Oer-community] Building OCW
Terri Bays
tbays at ocwconsortium.org
Wed Oct 6 11:40:10 MDT 2010
I would like to take Paul Silva's remarks below about R&D budgets as a way of introducing today's focus on:
Building OCW – How and why to create OCW and OER, lessons learned and ways to effectively use OER to support educational policy.
Working with desire Paul articulates below, namely to use OER as both an educational and cultural platform, how can we best go about designing our courses and sites so as to demonstrate their potential in this regard? At the conference, a number of options were presented in addition to the Educational Policy question to which we will devote a separate day:
Pedagogy and OER was, not surprisingly, a topic of considerable interest. Out of breakfast meetings and the discussions following a number of talks, a community of interest arose and has now taken up residence at
http://communities.ocwconsortium.org/groups/pedagogy-and-ocw/
One of the projects this community is working on is the development of a section of the OCW Toolkit that focuses on pedagogically informed course design and provision of pedagogical guidelines for independent users.
OER for Literacy Development was another area of interest, represented by a presentation by a team from the University of Tokyo. You can view this presentation at:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/documents/doc_download/139-self-navigation-web-based-literacy-learning-system-and-ocw-utilization
OER for Life-Long Learning interested another group from the Open University of Japan you can view their presentation at:
http://www.slideshare.net/OCWConsortium/ocw-search-services-for-lifelong-learners-4135554
The whole set of presentations on Building OCW is available at
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/community/documents/cat_view/69-ocwc-global-conferences/56-ocwc-global-conference-2010/57-building-ocw
But what are your interests? How can we model the creation of OCW/OER in ways that increase our efficacy in sustainable pursuit of the common good?
Terri
Terri Bays
tbays at ocwconsortium.org
On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Paul Silva wrote:
> Since the OER is global so is the OER Movement and it is now for our UNESCO OER Community to join with the users and producers of OER in advocating for Open Educational Resources forming part of the R&D budgets of Education and Training, globally. This in my view is the first step towards the advocacy of the OER as both educational and cultural platform, a platform to bridge inequality of access to qualitative and quantitative educational materials, knowledge skills and expertise within education and training and a most useful trans-national cultural tool that can help reduce poverty and illnesses in the world.
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