learning the lessons of openness
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Learning the Lessons of Openness
Patrick McAndrew, Robert Farrow, Patrina Law and Gary Elliot-Cirigottis
OER connects “education for all,” the UN’s millennium goal that calls for everyone in the world to have a basic education by 2014, with the goal of closing the digital divide
(Smith and Casserly, 2006)
Exploring the OER landscape through projects/organizations and their physical locations…
Navigating by theme…
Tagging…
Creating new connections…
Use the live system – completely open and free to use…
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The Key Challenges of OER
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Assessment and
Evaluation
Open Assessment Resources?
Integrating analytics into curriculum
Formative/Summative Feedback?
‘Delayed gratification’
Mozilla Badges?
Authentic Student Needs
Proof of learning
OER Rubrics
Policy ChangeEcosystem
Tracking Reuse
Teaching & LearningUse of OER
OER Research
Tools & Technologies
Technologies & Infrastructure
Commercial digital textbooks
New skills = new training
Commercial influence over policy
Repository Protocols
Tools for finding OER
Improving OER visibility
Tools for risk assessment
Tools for textbook production
Reducing barriers to quality
Encouraging collaboration between stakeholders
Technology-supported peer review
‘Invisibility’ at the point of use
Tools & Technologies
Policy
Anti-piracy legislation
Working with commercial publishers
Incentivising Staff
Promoting Reform
Mainstreaming OER
Sustainable Business Models
OER Policy Registry (CC)
‘On the ground’ support
Institutional Change
Developing Curricula
National Legislation
Advocacy
Institutional Collaboration
K12 Bill
Indonesia
South Africa
Brazil
Wellcome Trust
OER Advocates
“Publicly funded resources are openly licensed resources”
OpenTextBooks
Diversity&
Reversibility
Use of OERReuse of OER
Evidence of Use & Reuse
Lack of reliable evidence
OER Glue
Changing cultural practices
Tracking informal learning
Reluctance to share
Lack of adequate case studies
Developing metrics for tracking quality
Encouraging use of CC licences which afford attribution
Modular lesson design promotes reuse
OLnet OER Evidence Hub
Focus on the user, not the activity
Sustainability
Sustainability
Tracking informal learning
Balancing open and commercial approaches
Competition for limited funding
Building the right support networks
Institutional Change
New tools to make sharing easier
Investing in openness
Dependence on philanthropy
Thinking about the wider ecosystem, not just the ‘free’ product
Broader benefits for education
Copyright & Licensing
Copyright & Licensing
Confusion over licence options
Making publicly funded materials open
Lack of clarity over exercising rights
Commercial use of CC-BY
Range of CC licences
Greater awareness of open alternatives
Public funding = open access
Pedagogical value of unobstructed licences
Investment in open textbooks
Risk management tools
OER ResearchTeaching & Learning
Costs/BenefitsFor Teaching
Harnessing OER for informal learning
School policies which prevent sharing
Cheaper textbooks & other educational materials
OER to teach about OER
Cost-effectiveness
Sustainability
Student PIRGSTextbook Rebellion
Utah Open Textbook
$5 Textbook
Improving access, widening participation
Problem of accreditation
Dissemination & Awareness
Promotion &Advocacy
Incentivising staff to adapt existing practices
Influence of commercial publishers
Reductive thinking about OER
OER Advocacy Coalition
Mobilising the OER community
Building institutional support
Finding evidence of effective OER
Instructional Design
‘Watered-down’ legislation
Content Creation
Quality
Controlling quality through peer review
OER production not meticulous
Faculty resistanceto change
Developing reliable metrics
Too much poor quality OER in public domain
Poorly designed e-learning
Quality issues not unique to OER
OER challenge existing notions of quality
New stakeholder models of review
Strategies for supporting collaboration
Value of unobstructed licences
AchieveOERTest
Content CreationTeaching & Learning
Adoption of OER
Culture of Adoption
Resistance from commercial interests
Too much faith in transformative power of OER
Worries about OER quality
Lack of recognition for OER scholarship
Cultural diversity
Making the benefits tangible
Rethinking the learning experience
Accreditation
New forms of collaboration, supported by new technologies
Mentoring and support
Changing student habits
Effects of OER on motivation & engagement
P2Pu
Adoption of OERDissemination & Awareness
OER Research
Impact of OER Research
Lack of evidence about OER effectiveness
Exemplars for openness
OLnet
Does OER need radically new processes, or can they exist within
existing structures?
New opportunities for cross-collaboration
Research on openness as catalyst for change
New ways to network and share
Open access publishing
Concerns about validity of open research
Access
Access
Commercial providers borrowing rhetoric of openness
Student textbooks in USA
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Locked’ content
Out of date textbooks
Stifling of reform
Proliferation of poor quality content obscures high quality content
Open access publishing
Impact on legislation
Changing attitudes among academics and publishers
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Stages in Open Content
Transformative: change ways of working and learning
Economic: devise a model for sustainable operation
Pedagogic: understand the designs that work
Technical: develop an environment for open access
Practical: provide access to content
Legal: release of copyright through creative commons
B2S: Challenges of Preparation
Copyright Technology Access
CC-BY Licence B2S required reuse tracking across different student cohorts
Discoverability (sited content, pilots)
Matching NC to CC-BY across funded projects
Labspace (OpenLearn)
Accessibility (audit and support)
Moodle Usability (general benefits)
B2S: Common Challenges
Quality Sustainability Reuse
Open University material
Dissemination and training
Conversion to US context
Quality framework Open environment Editable versions
Learning design Integration with college needs
Cross platform
B2S: Research Challenges
Cost/benefit impact Policy
“Free” enables new solutions
Changing learners’ paths
Open access courses
Hidden costs in making change
New collaborations across sectors
B2S: Emerging Challenges
Advocacy Culture Assessment
Promotion of openness Finding new solutions Light models
Recruiting colleges Willingness to experiment
Rewards/Badges
New areas of work
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