current status of open education in japan

日本におけるOpen Educationの現状Current Status of Open Education in Japan

重田勝介

Katsusuke Shigeta北海道大学

Hokkaido University

3 players (partly) conducts Open Education

Institutions of Higher Ed.

SocialEntrepre-neurship

Ed-techCompanies

1) Institutions of Higher Education

Institutions of Higher

Ed.

• OpenCourseWare(2005-)

– JOCW (Regional Consortium)

• OER development and utilization

– By some universities

• e.g. Hokkaido consortium

• MOOC

– With providers or consortiums

• 1 Coursera / 1 FutureLearn / 5 edX

– JMOOC: Regional efforts

Hokkaido University Consortium

• Center for Open Education at Hokkaido U.

• Share liberal arts education through videoconferencing and OER

– Share OER via Open edX based platform

– Open MOOC with translation on OECx

• International Collaboration

– Reuse OER from CMU OLI (translation and modification)

– Cooperation for learning analytics

• Joint industry-university research with Fujitsu

– Personalized learning for student success

JMOOC: Initiative to accelerate collaboration between universities and industry

• Japan Massive Open Online Course

• MOOC providers under JMOOC

• Courses by universities, faculty and education companies ( or MBA school etc.)

• Launched Oct 2013, open over 30 courses

• Over 150 thousands enrollments

Comparison of MOOC activities between Japan and other regions

Services Players Business model

U.S.Coursera, Udacity

Udemy, edX

For-profit orNon-profit

organization

VC orMembership fee for organization

EUAsia

FutureLearnFUN

学堂在线 EdraakTaiwanMOOC

Companies orGovernment-driven

organization

Governmental funding orFoundation

support

JapanJMOOC

(gacco, OUJ MOOC, OpenLearning)

Universities and Companies

cooperated with general incorporatedassociation(JMOOC)

Membership fee for association

Taiwan MOOC

• Over 100 courses• Used for campus education

• Governmental funding by course development

Japan Univ. activities for MOOC

• Few university participate MOOC

– Recognition raises recently

• Lack of resources and support

– Funding

– Staffs for course development and management

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Donation

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2) Ed-tech companies

Ed-tech Companies

• MOOC providers

– For-profit companies

• Branch or project of existing companies

– Aim to leverage online learning for existing education system

• Pursuing business model for sustainability (notes: my suspicion)

– Hosting service for universities

– Course development with companies

GaccoOne of JMOOC course provider

• Operated by NTT docomo

• Open edXbased platform

• Part of courses include offline sessions

Jyuken-sapuri(Supplements for examination)

• Operated by human resource company

• Learning materials for entrance examination of universities for high school students

• Pay 8 dollars permonth

• Pursue comprehensiveagreement withschools

https://jyukensapuri.jp

3) Social Entrepreneurship


• Promote social change

– By bold young challengers

• OER translation and dissemination

– E.g. Asuka Academy

• Pursuing business model for sustainability (notes: my suspicion)

– Pursue public support including government

ManaveeVoluntary activities by university students

• Learning materials for entrance examination of universities to be used by high school students

• Operated by univ. students group activities

• Potential for sustainability

eBoard

• Learning materials for schools

• Offer knowledge map for learners

• Supported by VC, company and local government

Potential and challenges

• Continuous MOOC movement

• Consortium-based Collaboration

• Raise Ed-tech companies and entrepreneurs

• No governmental support

• Fragmented activities

• Beneficiary-to-pay principle

Institutions of Higher Ed.


Ed-techCompanies