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Doris Wu 吳貞芳 (doriswu60@yahoo.com) |
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO 語言學碩士&學士
文藻語專英文科畢
曾任文藻外語學院英文科講師 |
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Jan. 9, 2005 |
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Shu-Jung Chan (shu_jung@hotmail.com) |
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Fourth year music student in University of Free State, South Africa |
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24 July 2005 |
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My name is Ann Margulies. I am the executive director of the MIT OpenCourseWare.
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In our session on OpenCourseWare,you'll actually be spending some time on the site
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But I'll describe also how OpenCourseWare was developed-
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a little bit about its history.
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And we'll talk about some of the challenges for OpenCourseWare we are going forward.
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For now,I'd like to tell you a little bit about what OpenCourseWare is,
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and also share with you some of our experiences with our first public launch of this site.
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I'll then pose some of the questions that the challenges we are facing in the area of access and sustainability.
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MIT OpenCourseWare was announced about a year and a half ago with an overwhelmingly positive response.
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With that tremendous response,however,came a lot of confusion about what MIT OpenCourseWare is and what it isn't.
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OCW is a large-scale web-based publication of all of MIT's course materials offered to the world for free.
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It's intended to be a new model for the open sharing of information
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And it is not intended to replace the real education that happens in the classroom,
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that is,the interaction between faculty and students and between students.
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OpenCourseWare is not degree granting and it is not distance education.
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When you visit the OpenCourseWare site,
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what you'll see is a depth and a breadth of materials that's different from what you see on other campus websites.
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In terms of breadth,we are publishing courses from all five of MIT schools.
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We are also over time going to be publishing subjects or courses from all MIT's academic units.
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Many people say: "so what's the big deal? Lots of courses or subjects have websites."
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What's unique about MIT OpenCourseWare is truly the depth of materials.
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In typical subject site,to use MIT's vernacular would include a course description,a calendar,a syllabus.
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If it's a lecture-based course,it'll include all of the lecture notes;
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If it is a lab,it'll include the lab instructions and often all the tools if there's software tools that are needed for that lab.
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There are also related reading materials,quizzes,exams,problem sets,solution sets,and so on.
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There're also many different types of materials included on the site.
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There are … The most common are text files,PDF for each TML with lots of images,graphs,and charts.
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We also have simulations,software tools,and many other learning objects on the site.
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So that's what OCW is. We just launched the site 3 weeks ago.
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We actually opened the site to the public.
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We did it very quietly because we didn't know what to expect.
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People's expectations were so high we didn't know if what we were publishing was going to meet those expectations.
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The good news is we've received once again an overwhelmingly positive response. Over 40 million…
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There have been over 40 million hits to the site. We've had from over 3000 people.
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And over 3000 email messages have been received.
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Those email messages have given us lots of important feedbacks regarding how people are going to use this site.
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It's too early to tell what the impact on learning will be from OpenCourseWare,
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but we know from messages people have sent us
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that educators see tremendous value in being able to use the site to be able to build upon the work of others.
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They can now spend their energy on creating new ideas
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instead of reinventing ideas that other people have already done quite well.
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Educators are also interested in using OCW to be able to share those teaching practices.
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So we expect over time for there to be much more collaboration and potentially much more innovations.
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Many self-learners have also visited the site and told us some of the ways that they'll be using it.
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Self-learners are coming to OCW to explore whole new areas of study
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as well as to brush up on subjects that they took a while ago and perhaps have gotten rusted on.
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Self-learners have also told us that they are eager to come to OCW often
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in order to keep current on the latest thinking in their field.
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We'll be measuring over time more about how people are using the site and what their impact may be.
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In class we'll have more data to present to you and we'll be eager to talk about some of the ways
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that people will be using the site and what the potential impact will be.
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We have great hopes for OCW but there are also great challenges.
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Our first area of challenge is in access. We can think of access in two ways.
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There's technical access,just how do you get to the site.
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And then there's cultural access.
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Let's talk first about technical access.
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Although people have access to the site from 177 different countries,
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there are plenty of remote villages in other locations that just don't have the network infrastructure needed
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to be only truly access all the depth in OpenCourseWare.
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What should we do about that?
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We'll talk about that when we get together.
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Cultural access is perhaps even more challenging.
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Those areas that are most eager to get to the content,say they might have difficulty using it,
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because it's not in their language or it might not make sense within their culture,
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which we know OpenCourseWare will do to either encourage or facilitate local adaptations of materials.
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Within any innovation,it's important not only to launch it properly but also to consider how it sustains over time.
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We know that many of the "for- profit" models have struggled,in fact,many of them have folded,
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and I will be willing to predict that many still will not make it and will fold.
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How do we make the "for-free" model survive and be sustainable over time?
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Let's think about it in terms of the local level and then perhaps the national and international level.
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At the local level for OCW to survive and to be sustainable,first of all it has to be part of the way our faculty work.
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It has to be part of their normal way of preparing their course materials.
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OCW will not succeed if we place any additional burden on the faculty.
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Secondly,we need to be as efficient and as cost-effective as possible,
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so there aren't barriers for other campuses to join in the effort,
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which takes us to the next level of concern and sustainability.
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If our vision is truly realized and our OpenCourseWare is not just in MIT but on every campus,
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if OpenCourseWare becomes a real movement,
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then how do we allow people to navigate across different OpenCourseWare platforms?
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It will need to be some kind of organizing structures or frameworks or standard bodies that exist to coordinate that.
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In class I'd love to hear your ideas about how we here at MIT might help in that effort.
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Those are just a few of the many challenges we face in the future.
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We're really just at the very beginning of OpenCourseWare,but it's a very exciting time and I look forward to seeing you in class and we'll talk more about this.
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Thank you.
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