Global sharing. Affordable Learning

OER Foundation Board of Directors Meeting

Directors report Dec 2020

Wayne Mackintosh

UNESCO / ICDE Chair in OER

Strategic context

OERF maturation 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

OERF maturation 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

OERF maturation 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

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))

OERu operations

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Performance against strategic goals

Year / Student savings	Strategic goals	Achieved at 30 Nov 2020	Forecast 31 Dec 2020
2020	8,000 unique registered learners	14,941	16,800
2020 Estimated savings in tuition and textbook costs	US$4.3 million	US$8.08 million	US$9.0 million

Served 203,000 learners (7.3% register)

$541 per US credit hour

OER4Covid

Free online courses to support capacity development for educators in OER and open educational practices (46% rated as “Extremely helpful”)
Access to open source software tools (44% rated as “Extremely helpful”)
Free access to web-conferencing tools for synchronous communication for OER4Covid collaborators working together (41% rated as“Extremely helpful”)
Curated list of recommended resources to support the transition to online learning using OER (39% rated as “Extremely helpful”)
Access to OER-enabled online courses for local use at your institution (36% rated as “Extremely helpful”)