#360 Presentation

Wednesday 18 April 13:30 - 14:00 Armitage Room

Developing the Open Education Ecosystem in Campus based on the study of 350 Higher Learning Institutions in Indonesia

Richardus Eko Indrajit, APTIKOM-OCW, Indonesia

Conference Theme: Collaboration

Summary: To be able to promote open education effectively, the understanding of a related ecosystem is extremely required.

Abstract: Introducing and promoting the concept of open education effectively within campus territory requires a special approach. In order to identify the key critical aspects that are required to be taken into consideration to make the effort successful, a systemic yet holistic perspective on understanding the environment as a totality of a good number of integrated parts should be applied. This ecosystem should be well understood by any open education evangelists and pratitiones to be used as a tool in the process choosing the right strategy on developing and deploying the initiative.
To produce the ecosystem framework, APTIKOM-OCW Indonesia – the association of information technology universities and colleges in Indonesia – has conducted special study and survey involving 350 higher learning institutions within the nation. In conducting this research, a total of seven domains are being analysed as seen in the following picture[1]. Those seven domains relate to the following components: (i) campus infrastructure; (ii) campus superstructure; (iii) stakeholders literacy and characters; (iv) open-education initiatives portfolio; (v) alignment with education system; (vi) value and impacts; and (vii) external community supports.
By understanding these seven domains, together with all aspects within every domain, a systemic and holistic open education ecosystem framework can be generated. The ecosystem framework is developed based on the following propositions:

• It should take into consideration the whole spectrum range of open education principles that are needed to be addressed within campus society;
• It should help the campus management in promoting and implementing the open education initiatives seamlessly and effectiveley;
• It should be able to be used as guidance for developing and deploying campus policies, procedures, and mechanism in putting the ideas into reality; and
• It should align with all internal and external regulations set by management and government as an integrated part of the national education system.

One thing that should be underlined here is that such ecosystem framework would go beyond the boundary of campus since open education initiative can only become reality in a massive mode[2] should there is a need of collaboration, cooperation, and coordination among higher learning institutions. It means that several domains would be also get involved in the study, such as: (i) government regulations; (ii) economic profiles; (iii) social welfare and culture values; (iv) sustainability and scalability issues; (v) education system and nation building; (vi) globalisation force; (vii) technology enhancement and learning paradigm; and (viii) competencies and human capital assets.
[1] This paradigm is still in Indonesian language as originally developed by the author. An English version will be provided  for the upcoming full paper format.
[2] Indonesia that is being known as the largest archipelago country with over 235 million population who occupy over 18,000 islands might utilise its economy of scale advantage to come out with a massive model of open education that would bring the maximum values to all parties involved.