The Road Ahead is Open

Steve Wheeler@timbuckteethUniversity of Plymouthhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/hartkopf/62447949/

Do these children deserve a good education?Image: http://www.soil-net.com

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Do these children deserve a good education?Image: Steve Wheeler

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For want of a $500 well in their compound, these Gambian children often miss school to walk a 4km round

trip several times a day in baking heat to fetch water. Here they are also collecting firewood for cooking.

Image: Steve Wheeler

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Over 500 million children are outside of education. 5 billion dollars will get them all

educated. - Stephen HeppellImage: Steve Wheeler

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“Given the crises in economics and the environment, and the many challenges we face in modern society, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form”. – Brian Lamb

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http://www.frikipix.com

Homeless and wireless

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So why do we hoard knowledge?

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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” - Derek Bok

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_1947.jpg

“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

- Albert Einstein

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Self organised learning

For successful self organised learning the essential components are:

• Communication• Reflection• Collaboration• Community• Creative Tools• Amplification

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The global context...

There are 5 billion mobile phone connections. 3 times as many mobile phones as computers on the planet.

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The global context...

There are 5 billion mobile phone connections. 3 times as many mobile phones as computers on the planet.

Source: BBC News 2010

Data consumed in 2010 for mobiles 2.8 exabytesData consumed in 2009 1.1 exabytes

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The global context...

There are 5 billion mobile phone connections. 3 times as many mobile phones as computers on the planet.

Source: BBC News 2010

Data consumed in 2010 for mobiles 2.8 exabytesData consumed in 2009 1.1 exabytes

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The global context...Social media use is on the rise with over 550 million users on Facebook and 24 hours of video uploaded every minute on Youtube.

Always Connected?

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Always Connected?

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Many people at this Obama speech wanted to share their experiences with

their friends and family. One man is even live streaming from his laptop.

Google Android

Nokia Symbian

Apple

RIM

Microsoft

32.9 %

30.6 %

16 %

14.4 %

3.1 %

Mobile phone OS use in 2010

Source: BBC Click Programme, February 2011 (2010 statistics)

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk (2009 statistics)

> 90% have mobile connectivity

> 4.1 billion mobile phone subscribers

1.27 billion fixed line connections 22 countries now have more phones than people. The USA is not one of them... *

* cellularnews.com

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Source: http://www.penn-olson.com

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6 Trends for the digital age

Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating

Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

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Characteristics of e-learning

Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating

Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

We have the technology to facilitate the rest, but do we have the will?!

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“How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.”

- Kevin Kelly

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Open Learning

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University of the

‘second chance’

Open Learning

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University of the

‘second chance’

“The ideal of a global intellectual commons is becoming reality as the

licensing of content as Open Educational Resources (OER) makes it possible for students and faculty to find and adapt quality learning materials on

almost any subject.” – Sir John Daniel (2011)

“The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes”

- UNESCO (2002)

Open Educational Resources

http://www.wetcanvas.com

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“Wikipedia is different in that it doesn’t try to frame the creation of new entries with commissioned beginnings and fixed endpoints. It is open to anyone to initiate an entry on Wikipedia, and no entry is ever formally closed, since it is also open to anyone to keep editing and altering whatever is already there.”

– Andrew Lih The Wikipedia Revolution (2009)

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Opening the source code enables a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication

pathways, and interactive communities. - Wikipedia

Open Source

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http://www.freefoto.com

Open Source

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A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and

collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, blueprints, and documentation available at no cost to the

public. - Wikipedia

Open Source

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Open Cola

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Free/Open Content...

...describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organisation, firm or individual.

Source: Wikipedia

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Copyleft/Creative Commons

Ultimately: Freedom to openly access, use, copy, modify and share content

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University of Small States of the Commonwealth

“A collaborative network that allows 32 small countries jointly to create courses as open

educational resources that each can then adapt and use to extend and strengthen the offerings of its own

tertiary institutions.” – Sir John Daniel (2011)

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“Sharing with each other. This is the precious work we have to do.”

- John Davitt

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http://www.old-picture.com/united-states-history-1900s---1930s/pictures/Sharing.jpg

What if they gave a party...

... and none of us came?

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Open publishing: A tale of two papers

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Open publishing: A tale of two papers

http://www.fromoldbooks.org

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Notes:

In 2006/2007 I published 2 papers within a few months of each other. One was in a closed journal, and from submission it took 3

years to appear in print (there was a backlog of papers and ‘reviewer delays’). The other was in an open access journal and

took 5 months to appear online.

Long delays militate against good scholarship. Open access journals are now the first choice for many academics – with open peer

review and transparent processes, and with academics opening up their work for public critique, open scholarship is in the

ascendency.

Open scholarship

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Open peer review

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Open and transparent review audit

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Open impact

Closed Journal

3 years

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Unknown

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Open Journal

5 months

357

84,490

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Time from submission to publication

Number of citations

Number of views

Journal impact factor

Figures as at 10 April,2011

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Hacking £ducation

Professional Journals

...or...

Paywall? Free to view?

No Contest!

HACKING £DUCATION

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46062480@N00/2413785146- Photo: Adam Melancon

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Johnny Lee – Wii hack for IWB

“Knowledge is like love. You can give it all away, but you still get to keep it.”

– Steve Wheeler

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Here’s to openness!

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Thank you

W: http://steve-wheeler.netE: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

http://steve-wheeler.net

Some end notes (adapted from the Blonde Blog on poverty)

1. Poverty isn't fun and it’s not funny. When you're in poverty, you can't even think about having fun. All your time is spent trying to figure out how you are going to survive another day.

2. Poverty slows everything down--it's a drag on our world economy. Poverty has been slowing down creativity, and the forward movement of our society for much too long.

3. Poverty holds the world out of balance. Unbalanced things are not pretty. Poverty is ugly. Even uglier are the multi-national corporations and banks who take more than their fair share to keep much of the world’s population in poverty.