open education week - why open matters - march 13, 2014
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Slides used for my presentation during Open Education Week. Hangouts on Air at https://plus.google.com/events/cgirt38cq3fpcr8ra61qbd2298kTRANSCRIPT
Why Open MattersMarch 13, 2014
Mathieu Plourde
Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate Educational TechnologistIT Academic Technology Services
bit.ly/mathplourde
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HISTORY LESSON
A little
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Traditional software model
Credit: somethingstartedcrazy and Rob on Flickr.
Open source software
USERS DEVELOPERS
Source: Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems (Wired)
Open encyclopedia
Gratis
Libre&
(free of charge)
(freedom of use)
OPEN EDUCATION
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Open education
"...is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that
technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and
reuse knowledge."
—The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Open educational resources
Learning materials
Collection Learning object
Learning materials
Collection Learning object
Whole
Traditional
Fixed
Peer-reviewed
"Nugget"
Innovative
Evolving
"Wisdom of the crowd"
Learning materials
Collection Learning object
Whole
Traditional
Fixed
Peer-reviewed
"Nugget"
Innovative
Evolving
"Wisdom of the crowd"
What makes a resource open?• David Wiley's 4Rs:• Reuse: the right to reuse the content in its
unaltered/verbatim form (e.g., make a backup copy of the content)
• Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
• Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, the revisions, or the remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
Copyright licensing
• Open educational resources (OER) are powered by Creative Commons. The author sets the acceptable uses from the get-go.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
AFFORDABILITY CONCERNS
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Increase in textbook prices and college tuition
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Demand for degrees
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19McCoy, D., Schiller, S. R., Frank, E., & Schiller, S. (2011, April 4). Textbook Affordability: Emerging Solutions in Ohio. Webinar, . Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/Resources/TextbookAffordabilityEmergingS/226560
Low-cost pathways
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Open textbooks in K12
• State of Utah pilot provides a printed copy for $5 per student.
• Replaces a 7 year cycle.
• Fresh content every year, students keep the book.
• Open textbook calculator:
• http://openedgroup.org/calculator/
David Wiley, http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/the-5-texbook
State of Washington
The Open Course Library has saved students $5.5 million in textbook
costs to date, including $2.9 million during the 2012-2013 academic year
alone.”
Tidewater Community College
“For students who pursue the new “textbook-free” degree, the total cost for required textbooks will be zero. Instead, the program will use high quality
open textbooks and other open educational resources, known as OER, which are freely
accessible, openly licensed materials useful for teaching, learning, assessment and research. It is estimated that a TCC student who completes the degree through the textbook-free initiative might
save one-third on the cost of college.”http://www.tcc.edu/news/press/2013/TextbookFreeDegree.htm
TEXTBOOKS, (UN)BUNDLED
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Typical textbook cycle
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Adopting an open textbook
• Andrea Everard, Associate Professor
• Accounting & MIS
• MISY427 Information Technology Applications in Management - Fall 2011
• Link to blog post and video testimonial
Costs associated with potential textbooks for MISY427
Source: Ben Britton on Flickr
BARRIERS TO OPEN
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Perception of quality
• Outside resources:
• “Not mine”
• “Not peer-reviewed”
• “Not someone I know”
• Personal resources:
• Copyright confusion
• “Not perfect enough to share”
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Startup cost and time
• Finding
• Vetting
• Sequencing
• Remixing
• Filling up gaps
• Assembling in a web format
• Missing ancillaries and homework-as-a-service
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OTHER OPENNESSES
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Buy one, get one
“The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the
National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication:
Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
“Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data
resulting from federally funded scientific research.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research
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Open access research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY
Open educational practices
• http://openteaching.ud-css.net/2013/03/openeducationwk-udsnf12/
Personal learning networks
Attribution: Alec Couros (courosa) on Flickr.com
Public engagement
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-professors-we-need-you.html?_r=0
CONCLUSION
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Learning resources ecosystem
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Curriculum design
• Commercial textbook selection
• Build from scratch • Learning objectives
• Course outline
• Explore OER
• Identify gaps
• Explore commercial options
• Remix, repurpose
• Build, share, improve
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Course continuous improvement with OER
Open as a competitive advantage
• Selling your program as “textbook-free”
• Custom course content vetted and adapted yearly by your professors
• 21st century scholarship (open and networked)
• Faculty development
• Public engagement
WE NEED YOU!
Explore OER on your own!
Explore and submit UD resources
http://ats.udel.edu/open
List of global resources
http://sites.udel.edu/open/finding/
Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate Educational TechnologistIT Academic Technology Services
bit.ly/mathplourde
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