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?

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?

OERu learning environment

 

Course web site

Distributed interaction tools

Live course feed

OERu's open source NGDLE

LEARN MORE AT

OERu.org