beyond oer: robin derosa's presentations for #rdrinyvr
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Beyond OER: The
Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of Open Education
@actualham
Presentation CC BY Robin DeRosa
Images CC 0 Alan Levine
Open Education
•Open Educational Resources (#OER)
•Open Pedagogy (#OpenPed)
•Open Access (#OA)
How can we make college more affordable?
How can we improve learning?
How can we maximize the impact of our research?
How can we make college more affordable?
• 56% of students pay more than $400 CAD per semester
• 20% pay more than $650 CAD per semester (think of as a % of tuition!)
• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.
Effects of Textbook Prices• 67% did not purchase
a required textbook• 38% earned a poor grade• 20% failed a course• 48% occasionally or frequently
took fewer courses• 26% dropped a course• 21% withdrew from a course
2016 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
Creative Comm
ons
OER
OpenStax Books
“Students who use OER perform significantly better on the course throughput rate than their peers who use traditional textbooks, in both face-to-face and online courses that use OER.” (2016)
Throughput Ratean aggregate of:drop rates, withdrawal rates, C or better rates.
How can we improve learning?
What is Open Pedagogy?
ACCESSIBLELEARNER-DRIVENCONNECTEDPUBLIC
CCBY Jonathan Brodsky https://flic.kr/p/37z2C2
Access, broadly writ.Price (not cost) of college, digital divide & redlining,
accessibility & universal design, online safety & harassment
Student-Centered Learner-DrivenLearning Outcomes; Policies (Attendance, Late Work);
Procedures (Assessments, Grading); Schedule of Work (Curated Reading); AssignmentsCOURSE LEVEL, PROGRAM LEVEL
Content
↓
Community
Connected
Public
public usepublic support
public good
How can we maximize the impact of our research?
CCBY3.0 Creative Commons http://bit.ly/2mVWWp6Icons CCBY3.0 The Noun Project
Open Access“We can be confident that OA journals are journals. There's more than enough money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”
~Peter Suber
CC BY 3.0 US: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
OER
Open Pedagogy
Domain of One’s Own
• Drag ’n Drop → Design• Digital consumer → Digital
creator• Data mining → Data control• Audience of 1 → Public impact• Web as broadcast station →
Web as open lab• Work attached to course →
Work attached to student• ePortfolio → ePort
http://kayleighbennett.com/
to OPEN (vb.)
• Challenge barriers to access. Be honest and critical.
• Center learners. Be radical and real.
• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.
• Share your work. Be generous and just.
Q&A
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#OER, #OpenPed, #OA