Wayne Mackintosh
Founding Director of the OER Foundation. We're open sourcing education.
Global sharing. Affordable Learning
MOOC Technologies
The OERu experience
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
The problem
Supply | Demand
Building and clouds by MichaelGaida dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0
Unsatisfied demand for HE
100 Million additional places by 2025
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
OERu concept
Open technology
Open windows by PrestPhoto dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0
What can open do that closed can't?
MOOC platforms (Centralised)
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
OERu learning environment
Course web site
Distributed interaction tools
Live course feed
OERu's open source NGDLE
LEARN MORE AT
OERu.org
Technologies for delivering MOOCs
By Wayne Mackintosh
Technologies for delivering MOOCs
The OERu experience
