Wayne Mackintosh
Founding Director of the OER Foundation. We're open sourcing education.
Global sharing. Affordable Learning
OERF Board of Directors
February 2022
Wayne Mackintosh
UNESCO / ICDE Chair in OER
Nurturing sustainable futures
There is no form of educational delivery more cost-effective, scalable and sustainable than open education
Synopsis
OER Foundation
OERu concept
Disaggregated service provision model
Traditional provider
package
OERu unbundled
package
Micro-courses for credit
Role of the project manager
Initiating a project
Planning a project
Executing and closing a project
Introduction to project management
Qualification
Transcript credit
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OERF's FOSS digital learning ecosystem
Web conferencing
Timeline (summary)
| 2009 | OERF Launched |
| 2011 | OERu concept proposed and 1st meeting of founding partners |
| 2013 | International launch of the OERu |
| 2014 | OERu's first graduate |
| 2018 | "Soft launch" OERu 1st year of study |
| 2019 | Established OER Outreach Partnership Programme |
| 2020 | OER4Covid project in partnership with COL Transnational stackable micro-credit transfer system |
International recognition
| 2013 | UNESCO / COL Chair in OER |
| 2018 | UNESCO Chair in OER |
| 2019 | LiDA conferred the COL Award for Exellence in Distance Education Materials |
| 2019 | ICDE Prize of Excellence |
| 2020 | OE Global - Global Leadership Award |
| 2021 | OE Global - Open Infrastructure Award of Excellence |
Snapshot of development phases
Seed funding
PHASE 1
Financing growth
PHASE 2
PHASE 3
Scaling operations
(Proof of concept)
(Investment phase)
(Business phase)
Extra-budgetary: 3.63 Million
Performance 2009 - 2021
Revenue
Expenses
3.633m
(3.694m)
(0.061m)
Deficit
Average cost per year = $5,083
Planning for sustainable futures
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UNESCO OER Recommendation
- Build the capacity of stakeholders to find, re-use, creat, adapt and share OER;
- Develop supportive policy for OER;
- Ensure inclusive and equitable access to quality OER;
- Nurture the creation of sustainability models for OER; and
- Facilitate international cooperation in OER.
The five action areas
(Note monitoring requirements targeting consolidated report for the 42nd General conference (Autumn 2023))
Initiatives for the short term
National demonstrator: OER-enabled online course
Learning in a Digital Age (LiDA) Micro-credential
National demonstrator: OER-enabled professional development
NZ Extend Professional Learning Programme
International demonstrator: CoerTC Project
Collaborative OER Technology Community Project (working title)
Mentoring FOSS skills in support of learning for development
Strategic planning
Low
High
Support for OER by Shareholder
High
COVID
Impact
Enablers
- Remix exemplars
- Proven FOSS learning ecosystem
- UNESCO OER Recommendation
- Implementation data
- Working model for transnational micro-credit transfer
- Low cost base
Initiatives for the future
Consultation with partners
OER priorities & refinements to membership model
Review composition of the Board of Directors
To be determined by emergent strategy
Amend the constitution
Updates needed for new shareholding
Office bearers
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OERF Board Meeting
By Wayne Mackintosh
OERF Board Meeting
Presentation prepared for meeting of the Board of Directors
