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Open Courseware: Stats & Facts

Open Courseware ov Frw & Opw Minds Open educational resources (0ER) are learning materials that are freely available for use, remixing and redistribution. Advantages to open educational resources include: • Lower costs for students • Iterative & rapid feedback loop • Rich media via online medium The term open educational resources was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Since 2005 there has been a marked increase in the Open Educational Resource movement and in Open Educational Licenses. Eric Pallant and his co-professor Terry Bensel experimented with teaching their Introduction to Environmental Science course at Allegheny College with no textbook. Instead they used a variety of open educational resources. Based on self-report, 41 of 46 students in their first-semester class read the same or more than they would have in a textbook. Major Schools Offering Open Courses Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open University Carnegie-Mellon Tufts University University of California, Irvine Kutztown University Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Utah State University University of Southern Queensland Number of Courses Available From MIT OpenCourseWare 2000 September 2002: MIT OpenCourseWare proof-of-concept pilot site opens to the public, offering 32 courses. 1500 -------------------- 1000 500 As of June 2009, 27 courses included complete video lectures (though not all of them have complete lecture notes). The lectures can be streamed online, and many of MIT's OpenCourseWare audio and video files can be downloaded from iTunesU. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 MIT OpenCourseWare vs. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative "Convey the parameters of the course's subject matter and pedagogy, ideally representing a substantially complete set of all the materials used in the course." "Adds instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence." Broad, but shallow – many courses with marginal amount of content and activities. Deep, but narrow – few courses with significant content and activities constructed for learning. Syllabus, calendar, readings list, and assignments list based on the textbook Parallèles. Text, images, and video with inline Flash-based Q&A activities for self-learning. Instructions and expectations are restricted to registered students. Fully-fleshed out learning materials, richly media-enhanced with no textbook needed. Syllabus, calendar, readings, and PDFS of textbook-quality lecture notes. Introductory movies, text, and self-assessment questions. Unremarkable. Complete and linear content. Different look and feel for different courses Consistent throughout different courses. (and subsections of courses). Sources: Community College Open Textbook Collaborative, Connexions, Flexkmowlogy, Online Edu Blog, Wikipedia onlineuniversitydata.com Contents Completeness Contents Completeness Description Offerings Website French I Logic I

Open Courseware: Stats & Facts

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The open educational resource movement is growing rapidly. Open educational resources give many people who would not be able to study due to finances or location an opportunity to learn, for free.

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