qatar university technology enhanced learning & openness for faculty
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Presentation given as part of Office of Faculty and Instructional Development (OFID) Facutly Faculty PD Workshop. Doha October 30, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Qatar UniversityTechnology Enhanced Learning & Openness
For Faculty
Doha30-October-2014
Paul Stacey, Associate Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted these materials are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY)
Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet – universal access to research, education, & full participation in culture, driving a new era of development, growth, & productivity.
Grow and protect the public commons by creatinglegal & technical tools, campaigns, and policy
designed to maximize creativity, sharing, and innovation.
http://creativecommons.org
Traditional © designed for old
distribution models
The problem:
Technically easy to share but legally not so easy.
Internet by Pat Guiney CC BY
creativecommons.org
We make sharing content easy, legal,
and scalable.
What do we do?
Free © licenses that creators can
attach to their works
How do we do it?
Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution
ShareAlike
NonCommercial
NoDerivatives
Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
TitleAuthorSource – Link to workLicense – Name + Link
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND
Step 2: Receive a License
most free
least free
Lawyer ReadableLegal Code
HumanReadable Deed
MachineReadable Metadata
Where do these resources come from?
Openness in Education
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses and supplemental resources such as textbooks, images, videos, animations, simulations, assessments, …
most free
least freeNot OER
OER
5Rs: The Powerful Rights of OER
OER is Global
http://khanacademy.org
http://projects.siyavula.com http://nroer.in/
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Open Textbooks
http://www.openstax.org
Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed
Print on demand at low cost.
http://open.bccampus.ca
Free | Openly (CC) Licensed | Peer Reviewed
Print on demand at low cost.
OpenStax College(Rice University)
Strategic Purpose
• Social and/or economic reasons?• Academic reasons?• Beyond generalities like “enriching the
knowledge economy”• A few examples …
Why do OER?
Global Economy
free tradeoffshore outsourcing
imports
Positives• lower prices• higher efficiency• more jobs• quality
Negatives• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship
Economic Adjustments Required
Economic Adjustment – Grant Program
• $2 billion grant funding over 4 years starting 2011• Grants provided to community colleges partnered with
high growth industry sectors• Produce stackable/latticed credentials (certificates &
diplomas) of 2 years or less duration• Use online & technology enabled learning, evidence
based design, universal design for learning, OER
Grant requires all newly developed materials be CC BY!
High Growth Industry Sectors
Generating OER for Fields of Study With Few Existing OER
Energy
Health ManufacturingBridgingBasic Education
Transportation InformationTechnology
Labour market demand - high growth industry sectors
Employers & Industry
Design & delivery of employer sponsored work-based training
models
Community Colleges(Consortia – in state &
interstate)
1. Evidence Based Design
• use evidence to design program strategies
• base program design on a level of evidence
• use data for continuous improvement of programs
2. Stacked & Latticed
Credentials• post-secondary
credentials that have labor market value
• certificates, certifications, diplomas, and degrees
• competency-based educational programs
3. Transferability & Articulation
• career pathways that transfer and articulate
• within and across state lines & within consortia
• bridge from non-credit to credit
• build on previously funded courses & credentials
4. Online & Tech-Enabled Learning
• hybrid and blended learning strategies
• open enrollment, modularize content, accelerate course delivery, interactive simulations, gaming, digital tutors, synchronous & asynchronous, …
• OER & UDL
5. StrategicAlignment
• outreach to community - employers and industry, public workforce system, non-profit organizations, philanthropies …
• leverage supports & do not duplicate existing programs
Six Core Elements
Local workforce investmentboard
Public Workforce System
Job centers, adult education agencies, career and technical
education agencies
Partnerships
6. Align with Previously-Funded TAACCCT Projects
“We did this because open licensing increases the impact of our investment and helps us to be more strategic with our future investments.”
Why did we do this?
“From a public policy perspective, the Department is a better steward of public funds by giving the public access to those things created using public funds, and ensuring that these products have as wide spread a use as possible.”
“TAACCCT is a really big investment. But we expect that OER will allow the impact to be even greater than just the 800 colleges with new curricula and equipment that we directly funded.”
From• displaced workers• unemployment• lower wages• low & obsolescent skills• personal & family hardship
To• employed workers• higher skills• higher wages• growth industries
KEY POLICY: Education Grant Programs“All newly developed materials must be CC BY.”
2003-12 OER initiative to create new for credit online learning
Oct-2012 BC Ministry of Advanced Education funds Canada’s first official open textbook project.
It wants open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses in the province.
• Save students $• Generate
collaboration among institutions and across faculty at multiple institutions
• Localize and adapt textbooks for Canadian context
• Faculty fellows
House of Knowledge Variation1 by Adrien Sifre CC BY-NC-ND
Open Pedagogies
Add to/improve the global knowledge commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
Create/curate supplemental resources
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Science:Math_Exam_Resources
https://www.oercommons.org/
Solve a global, social, or economic challenge
Based on Open Models Concept paper written by Paul Stacey, Garin Fons, and Theresa Bernardo.Paper available at: http://bit.ly/1rKij7w
Design a house, a chair, anything
http://www.wikihouse.cc/ http://www.wikiseat.org/
http://www.thingiverse.com/
http://creativecommons.org.nz/2013/05/wikihouse-nz/
http://opendesignnow.org/
http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/
https://www.opendesk.cc/
http://www.thingiverse.com
Benefits
• Brings peer review process to educational material• Higher quality• Modify, localize, translate, and update – make it better• Scales sources and diversity of educational material• Increases academic freedom and choice • Makes better use of existing resources• Saves students, parents, government money• Creates international presence and awareness• Increases access • Transforms teachers, students, public into active creators,
reviewers, & producers of knowledge• Ensures research results can be verified and reproduced• Generates business and pedagogic innovations
Openness in Qatar University TEL Initiative
Paul StaceyCreative Commons
web site: http://creativecommons.org e-mail: [email protected]: http://edtechfrontier.com
presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Paul_Stacey
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