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Making It Matter Supporting Education In The Developing World Through Open And Linked Data Balaji V | 16 May 2014

This is the view…… • From way above… • Developing countries produce sizeable quantities of OER • Large institutions rather than small ones involved • Need for value addition – Educational, employability ontologies Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Commonwealth of Learning Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

DOER COL’s Directory of Open Educational Resources | doer.col.org OERs by Community 453 Higher Education 651 Open Schooling Teacher Education 2797 596 Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

DOER COL’s Directory of Open Educational Resources | doer.col.org Top Producing Countries 1600 1400 1400 1200 1064 1000 791 800 600 400 267 200 149 83 67 41 41 27 3 3 3 1 1 1 0 Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

DOER COL’s Directory of Open Educational Resources | doer.col.org Top Publishers 900 791 800 695 700 600 510 500 400 300 181 180 200 151 149 148 107 92 100 0 National National The Open University of National Wikibooks Virtual Tamilnadu Gresham University of Open Programme University Cape Town Council Of University of Textbook College Oxford University of on (OUUK) Educational Pakistan Corporation Nigeria Technology Research & (VUP) (NOUN) Enhanced Training Learning (NCERT) (NPTEL) Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

DOER COL’s Directory of Open Educational Resources | doer.col.org Top Subject Tags 250 211 211 200 155 141 150 131 130 121 114 110 104 100 50 0 Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

DOER COL’s Directory of Open Educational Resources | doer.col.org Top Edutags 2500 2376 2153 2000 1500 1407 1000 609 574 446 500 348 315 241 224 0 Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Good producers, good consumers • Earlier view: – developing world as OER consumers • Now: – Developing world as OER producers • More appropriate: good producer = good consumer Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Reuse and Adaptation of OER A must for making impact Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

• Discoverability of OER • Here is where LinkedUp is making a huge contribution already Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

• Quality of OER is best established through socialising OER Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Reuse and adaptation • Proceeds well when users know the values – Educational: level of attainment, maturity/capability, prior learning etc – Employment/ Skills Development: this set of values is increasingly important Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Socialising OER • Already taking place in online spaces – YouTube – Facebook – Etc • Not easily and critically assessed for value Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Need for new ontologies • Educational – LRMI – LinkedUp • Employability – Ontology approach e.g Dragon Gasevitch Athabasca U Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

Offlining of OER • About 80% of learners do not have consistent access to Internet for learning • Offlining is helpful • COL’s Aptus (www.col.org/aptus) Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014

What would we look forward to? • Improving discoverability of OER, esp from developing world • New ontologies for skills development and employability • Further improving data on educational value Balaji V. | Making it Matter - London, UK - 16 May 2014