2014-09-30 openness in education
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Slides used for EDUC638/EME6613 session about openness and MOOCTRANSCRIPT
EDUC638/EME6613 Openness in EducationSeptember 30, 2014
Mathieu Plourde
bit.ly/educ638-open14
BEFORE WE START… 3
What is open?
• Let’s gather definitions of the word “open”
• http://bit.ly/def-open14
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What is free?
• Let’s gather definitions of the word “free”
• http://bit.ly/def-free14
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HISTORY LESSON
A little
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Traditional software model
Credit: somethingstartedcrazy and Rob on Flickr.
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Open source software
USERS DEVELOPERS
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Open encyclopedia
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Source: Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems (Wired)
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Gratis
Libre&
(free of charge)
(freedom of use)11
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 12
Open education
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Evolution towards MOOCs
Gerard L. Hanley, http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no2/hanley_message_0613.htm
WHY OPEN MATTERS 15
Demand for degrees
17McCoy, 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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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
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
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
OER Repositories/Referatories
• http://sites.udel.edu/open/finding/
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING OPEN?
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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/
BEWARE: OPENWASHING
“What's getting lost here is the power of "free" to benefit
not only institutions, but students as well.”
- Anya Kamenetz
The OER spectrum
Textbook Learning object
The OER spectrum
Textbook 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)
THE BIG BAD MOOC 32
Are you afraid MOOCs might take away your job?• Yes
• No
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Credit: Daniel Lobo on Flickr.com
What is a MOOC anyway?
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Casey Green at #digedcon, April 2013
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UD’s first MOOC
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www.canvas.net/courses/phoneography-the-basics-of-cell-phone-photography
Connectivist MOOCs
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Found something interesting?
• How would you incorporate a MOOC in your everyday life?
• Personally (as a hobby)
• Educationally (to support your coursework as a student)
• Professionally (to support your lifelong learning as a professional)
• For teaching (to support your students)
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The value of MOOCs
• San Jose State U. Puts MOOC Project on Hold
• Prior learning assessment:
• Western Governors University
• SUNY REAL
• Wrapping
• Mozilla open badges
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BARRIERS TO OPEN 42
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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CONCLUSION 45
Learning resources ecosystem
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Curriculum design
1. Commercial textbook selection
2. Build from scratch 1. Learning objectives
2. Course outline
3. Explore OER
4. Identify gaps
5. Explore commercial options
6. Remix, repurpose
7. Build, share, improve
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WE NEED YOU!
Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate
bit.ly/mathplourdeSlides: bit.ly/educ638-open14
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sites.udel.edu/open
OTHER OPENNESSES 51
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