{"id":1127,"date":"2007-09-23T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/open-education-week-4-overall-reflections-on-weeks-2-3-and-4\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:37","slug":"open-education-week-4-overall-reflections-on-weeks-2-3-and-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/open-education-week-4-overall-reflections-on-weeks-2-3-and-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Education – Week 4: Overall Reflections on Weeks 2, 3 and 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a reflection on the following readings from the
\nIntroduction
\nto Open Education<\/a> course:<\/p>\n

Week 2:
\nGiving
\nKnowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources<\/a> from
\nthe Organization
\nfor Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a> (OECD)
\nWeek 3: Open
\nEducational Practices and Resources – OLCOS Roadmap 2012<\/a> from the
\nOpen eLearning Content Observatory
\nServices<\/a> (OLCOS)
\nWeek 4:
\nA
\nReview of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements,
\nChallenges, and New Opportunities<\/a> for the Hewlett Foundation<\/p>\n

Questions for consideration: What do these overviews of the field have in
\ncommon? What do they emphasize differently? What are the aims of the authors of
\neach report? Do you see a bias toward or against any ideas, organizations, or
\napproaches in any of the reports? Which report spoke the most clearly to you,
\nand why do you think it did? Based on where the field is now, and these initial
\nideas about where it might go, what part of the open education movement is most
\ninteresting to you? Why?<\/p>\n

<\/em>Aims of Authors:<\/p>\n

<\/strong>OECD Report<\/em> – This May 2007 report summarizes a recent OECD study of
\nthe OER movement. Per the
\nOECD
\nwebsite<\/a>, "Work on education at OECD seeks to develop and review policies
\nto enhance the efficiency and the effectiveness of education provisions and the
\nequity with which their benefits are shared."<\/em> The
\nstudy's
\nweb site<\/a> provides information about the project, including the
\ncase
\nstudies and site visits<\/a> that were compiled during the study. In general, the
\naim of the project is to assess
\nopen
\neducational resource<\/em><\/a> (OER) <\/em>initiatives in terms of their
\n"purpose, content, and funding." The report includes an analysis of the
\nincentives and barriers and suggests ways to improve the access to and
\nusefulness of the resources.<\/p>\n

OLCOS Report: <\/em>Per the
\nolcos.org
\nweb site<\/a>, the OLCOS project (from 1\/2006-12\/2007) is funded under the
\nEuropean Union’s eLearning Program and "aims at building an (online)
\ninformation and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and
\nusage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational
\ncontent<\/em><\/acronym> in
\nEurope."<\/em> This Roadmap report, produced at the end of the first year of the
\nproject in January 2007, offers a status update of open education initiatives as
\nwell as recommendations for the future.<\/p>\n

Hewlett Foundation Report:<\/em> This report is billed as a review of the
\nfunded projects within the Education Program of the Hewlett Foundation
\n(specifically, the "Using Information Technology to Increase Access to
\nHigh-Quality Educational Content" initiate), but is ultimately a recommendation
\nof future initiatives for the
\nHewlett
\nFoundation Open Educational Resources Initiative<\/a>.
\n
\nSimilarity in Themes:<\/p>\n

<\/strong>All three reports share similar:<\/p>\n