Context

OER Foundation

Defining OER

OER (Open Educational Resources) are defined by UNESCO as learning, teaching, and research materials in any format and medium that:

• reside in the public domain or released under an open license
• that permits no-cost access,
• plus permissions for others to re-use, re-purpose, adapt, and redistribute.

Towards the UNESCO OER Recommendation

UNESCO OER Recommendation

1. Build the capacity of stakeholders to find, re-use, creat, adapt and share OER;
2. Develop supportive policy for OER;
3. Ensure inclusive and equitable access to quality OER;
4. Nurture the creation of sustainability models for OER; and
5. Facilitate international cooperation in OER. 

The five action areas

(Note monitoring requirements targeting consolidated report for the 42nd General conference (Autumn 2023))

Startup financing model

Seed funding

PHASE 1

Financing growth

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

Scaling operations

(Develop MVP)

(Investment phase)

(Business phase)

Extra-budgetary:  3.44 Million

Performance 2009 - 2019

Revenue

Expenses

3.437m

(3.441m)

(0.004m)

Deficit

How does OERu work?

Gears by Pexels dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0​ 

Unsatisfied demand for HE

Crowd by James Cridland licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

BIG vision for a small charity

But what if ...

Institutions assembled only 2 courses from OER

Agreed to provide assessment services for formal credit?

Small and big by Jimmy Flink licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Alike 2.0 Generic

Smart philanthropy

 

Gift by blickpixel dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0​ 

Giving is receiving

Parallel learning universe | Sustainable revenue streams

OERu concept

 

Global sharing - Affordable learning

 

OERu qualifications

Graduation by paseidon dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0

Inaugural qualification -Business

 

Certificate of Higher Education in Business (OERu)

Learning in a digital age

Principles of management

Introduction to entrepreneurship

Principles of marketing

Introduction to business

Introduction to project management

Principles of microeconomics

Principles of macroeconomics

Introduction to customer centred business

Introduction to operations management

Core courses (60 credits)

Optional courses (60 credits required)

94 credits

available

Corporate communication

Inaugural qualification - Arts

 

Certificate of General Studies (30 credits)

Introduction to entrepreneurship

Regional relations in Asia and the Pacific

Corporate communciation

Principles of Management

World history in the modern era

Introduction to psychology 1

Introduction to research methods in psychology

Art appreciation and techniques

Introduction to critical reasoning

Residency requirement (6 credits)

Transfer credit (24 credits)

33 credits

Available

Critical reasoning

Learning in a digital age

Principles of Marketing

Indigenous Australia

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

OERu micro-courses

2019 Commonwealth of Learning Award for Excellence in Distance Education Materials

Transnational Micro-credentialing

 

See announcement on microcredentials by New Zealand Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills & Employment

Micro-credentials for credit

Role of the project manager

Initiating a project

Planning a project

Executing and closing a project

Introduction to project management

CertHE Business

Transcript credit

Green paint by JTPatriot dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0

Open design, Open Source

 

Open windows by PrestPhoto dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0​

Learning complex skills

 

Can you learn to ride a bike by reading a book?

Child learning to ride a bike by Rob Bertholf, CC-BY

Authoring and publishing technology

Author on WikiEducator

Outline of wiki pages

Publish course web site

1

2

3

4

OERu learning environment

 

Course web site

Distributed interaction tools

Live course feed

OERu's open source NGDLE

Sustainable education

 

Conservation light bulb by Alexas Fotos dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0​

OERu Outreach Partnership Programme

 

Hand shake puzzle by PublicDomainPictures dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0

Low and lower-middle income countries, as well as small states in developing countries

OERu Outreach Partners

Sanatan Dharma College

Open collaboration

 

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu

Elizabeth Warren

From vision to reality

Many higher education institutions believe in expanding affordable access to learning through their community service missions, but what may be difficult for institutions to deliver individually becomes possible through active participation in the OERu network.

Seagull sky flight by maleifl dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0

LEARN MORE AT

OERu.org