Openness as a Catalyst for Education

Jared SteinUtah Valley University

jstein@uvu.edu

1. Openness in Education2. Finding and Using OER3. You, Opening

“Teaching is sharing.”David Wiley

Rob Kalin“I graduated high school with a D- average ...“I got into a diploma program art school in Boston ... I used the art school to make a fake ID to go to MIT...“Someone said [college is] expensive. I said, No, it's free, you just won't get credit for it.”

http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2009/05/hacking_education.html

ocw.mit.edu – 1900+ courses

OpenEducationalResources

freely available for everyone

online

Self-check activity from Carnegie-Mellon’s “Logic and Proofs”.

Video of Prof. Shelly Kagan in Yale’s PHIL 176 course, “Death”

Carnegie-Mellon’s multi-part, multi-chapter “Logic and Proofs” course

Open CourseWare Consortium www.ocwconsortium.org

Fu Jen Catholic UniversityNational Cheng Kung UniversityNational Chengchi UniversityNational Chiao Tung UniversityNational Sun Yat-Sen UniversityNational Taiwan Normal UniversityNational Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyNational Tsing Hua UniversityTainan National University of The ArtsTaipei Medical UniversityThailand Thailand Cyber UniversityTurkey Middle East Technical UniversityTurkish OpenCourseWare ConsortiumUnited Kingdom Mathematical Institute, Oxford UniversityPeoples-uni.orgThe Open UniversityThe University of NottinghamUnited States Arizona State UniversityCollege of Eastern UtahDixie State College of UtahJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthKaplan Higher EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyMichigan State UniversityOpen Institute of law, Int.Tufts UniversityUC BerkeleyUniversity of Alaska FairbanksUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of Massachusetts BostonUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of UtahUniversity of Wisconsin- Eau ClaireUtah State UniversityUtah Valley UniversityWeber State UniversityWestern Governors UniversityWheelock CollegeVenezuela Universidad Central de VenezuelaUniversidad de Los AndesUniversidad Fermín Toro

University of the Western CapeSpain Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEUIE UniversityOpenCourseWare UniversiaUniversidad Autónoma de MadridUniversidad CadizUniversidad Carlos III de MadridUniversidad de AlicanteUniversidad de CantabriaUniversidad de Castilla-La ManchaUniversidad de GranadaUniversidad de HuelvaUniversidad de La LagunaUniversidad de MalagaUniversidad de MurciaUniversidad de NavarraUniversidad de OviedoUniversidad de SalamancaUniversidad de SevillaUniversidad de ValladolidUniversidad de ZaragozaUniversidad ExtremaduraUniversidad Internacional de AndalucíaUniversidad Nacional de EducacionUNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE CARTAGENAUniversidad Politecnica de ValenciaUniversidad Politecnica MadridUniversidad Rey Juan CarlosUniversidade de Santiago de CompostelaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUniversitat de BarcelonaUniversitat de GironaUniversitat de les Illes BalearsUniversitat de ValènciaUniversitat Jaume IUniversitat Oberta de CatalunyaUniversitat Rovira i VirgiliUniversity of DeustoUPV/EHUSwitzerland University of LausanneTaiwan Aletheia University Matou CampusChang Jung Christian UniversityChung Hwa University of Medical TechnologyDiwan University

Kyushu UniversityMeiji UniversityNagoya UniversityOsaka UniversityRitsumeikan Asia Pacific UniversityRitsumeikan UniversityTokyo Institute of TechnologyUnited Nations UniversityUniversity of TokyoUniversity of TsukubaWaseda UniversityKorea, Republic Of Handong Global UniversityInha UniversityKorea UniversityKyung Hee Cyber UniversityKyung Hee UniversityPukyong National UniversityPusan National UniversitySang-MungSeoul National University of TechnologyLebanon Global UniversityMexico Tecnologico de MonterreyUniversidad de MonterreyUniversidad del CaribeNetherlands HAN University of Applied SciencesOpen University NetherlandsTU DelftPalestinian Territory, Occupied Al Azhaz University - GazaPeru Universidad Nacional de IngenieríaPuerto Rico Universidad Interamericana de Puerto RicoUniversity of Puerto RicoRussian FederationInstitute for Social Sciences and HumanitiesSaudi Arabia Alfaisal UniversityKing Fahd University of Petroleum & MineralsKing Saud UniversitySaudi AramcoSouth Africa

Universidad MetropolitanaUniversidad MonteávilaUniversidad Nacional Experimental del TáchiraUniversidad Rafael Belloso ChacinViet Nam EduNet VietnamAffiliate Organizations California Psychological AssociationCenter for Open and Sustainable LearningChia Nan University of Pharmacy & ScienceChulalongkorn UniversityCommonwealth of Learning (COL)ConnexionsCreative CommonsenPraxisEuropean Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)Fahamu - Networks for Social JusticeFinalsClub.orgGEM4HETSiBerryInstitute for Electronic GovernanceIntelligent TelevisionKorea Education & Research Information ServiceMERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online TeachingMonterey Institute for Technology and EducationNational Africa FoundationNational Institute of Multimedia EducationNovell, Inc.OCW Translations Inc.OER AfricaOOPSOpen Courseware IranOpen High School of UtahOpen Learning ExchangeScribdSoftware Engineering ConsortiumTaiwan OpenCourseWare ConsortiumVietnam Education FoundationVietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)VMHN.ORG

Afghanistan Kabul Polytechnic UniversityAustralia University of Southern QueenslandAustria Klagenfurt UniversityBrazil ESAGS - Escola Superior de Administração e GestãoFundação Getulio Vargas - FGV OnlineUniso- Universidade de SorocabaUniversidade Federal de Juiz de ForaUniversidade Federal Rural de PernambucoCanada Athabasca UniversityCapilano UniversityChile Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileUniversidad de ChileChina China Open Resources for EducationColombia Universidad de ManizalesUniversidad IcesiUniversidad Industrial de SantanderUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaCosta Rica Universidad Estatal a DistanciaDominican Republic Las Americas Institute of technology (ITLA)France Grenoble Ecole de ManagementParis TechUniversité de LyonIran, Islamic Republic Of Baha'i Institute for Higher EducationIsrael The Open University of IsraelJapan Doshisha UniversityHokkaido UniversityJapan OCW ConsortiumKagawa Nutrition UniversityKansai UniversityKeio UniversityKyoto Seika UniversityKyoto University

Open CourseWare Consortium ~200 Members

www.ocwconsortium.org

why?

Motivations for Openness• Reputation• Philanthropy• Sustaining

BYU OCW Pilot Study• Justin Johansen & David Wiley• http://bit.ly/2uVmTE• Opening 1 course = $250• Conversion $ per year = $4,300

Motivations for Openness• Reputation• Philanthropy• Sustaining• Visionary

Era of Lifelong Learning?

1. Openness in Education2. Finding OER3. You, Opening

openhighschool.org

wikieducator.org wikiversity.org

wikibooks.orgwikipedia.org

5 Fav OER Projects

openlearn.open.ac.uk•License: CC By-NC-SA •Media Types: HTML, XML, JPG/PNG/GIF, MP4, (IMS, Moodle ZIP), etc •Reuse/Remix Estimate: 4.5 - Very easy

oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/•License: CC By-NC-SA •Media Types: HTML, JS, Java Servlet, SWF, JPG/PNG/GIF •Reuse/Remix Estimate: 2.5 - Fair

oyc.yale.edu•License: CC By-NC-SA•Media Types: HTML, XML, MP3, FLV, MOV, PDF, (IMS ZIP)•Reuse/Remix Estimate: 3.5 - Easy

webcast.berkeley.edu•License: CC By-NC-ND •Media Types: MP3, SWF, RM, h.264, RSS•Reuse/Remix Estimate: 1 - Low

cnx.org•License: CC By •Media Types: CNXML, HTML, JPG/PNG/GIF, MID, PDF, etc•Reuse/Remix Estimate: 4.5 - Very easy

• Search engines–Google, Flickr–http://ocwfinder.com–http://oerrecommender.org–http://learn.creativecommons.org

• Directories–OpenCourseWare Consortium

http://ocwconsortium.org–OER Commons

http://oercommons.org–CCCOER http://oerconsortium.org

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wikilearn.uvu.edu

wikilearn.uvu.edu/cs

Daily Herald Photo Friday, July 20, 2007 page D3

“Professor of Sociology at UVU Ron Hammond … protesting against textbooks, not requiring students to purchase even his own”

“An act of community service to the whole country…”

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OER Tools and Platforms

• Free blogs: wordpress.com• Free software: wordpress.org

See Jim Groom’s WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare: http://bavatuesdays.com/wordpresscom-as-opencourseware/

• Free software: http://mediawiki.org

wikispaces.com

flickr.com

• Download: http://educommons.org• Example: http://open.usu.edu

creativecommons.org/license/

Why use OER?

OER Handbook

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook

Open Ed Blogs• Open Culture

http://openculture.com• Open Ed News

http://openeducationnews.org• David Wiley

http://opencontent.org

Image credits• Hoodia gordonii photo by M. Heigan:

http://flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/423391945/• Yinqixing http://blog.clarknielsen.com/2009/10/yinqixing-

shanghais-indoor-skiing-dump/• “Rusty Cage” photo by Pietroizzo:

http://flickr.com/photos/pietroizzo/327485958/• Biosphere 2 photo by Ryan Thomas:

http://flickr.com/photos/ryanthomas/297717379/• Door Knocker of Needful Things:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/2784728947/• Hunter Park walk/bike path 2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leagueofmichiganbicyclists/3754409467/

• Free Kittens http://www.flickr.com/photos/7467060@N06/2930181209/

References• OER Handbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook• MIT OCW: Making the Case http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/MakingTheCase.htm• Open Textbook Articles http://oerconsortium.org/2008/07/28/open-textbook-articles-

published-in-jejhe/• BYU OER Policy Background http://docs.google.com/View?id=dczd9vkv_132dv92krhp• MIT OCW Stats http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/stats/

On the Sustainability of OER Projects http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2009/01/27/on-the-sustainability-of-oer-projects/

• Review of 7 OER Projects http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2009/02/05/7oer/• Creative Commons. About Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/• Whitehouse: AGI http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Investing-in-Education-The-

American-Graduation-Initiative/• Open Textbook Adoption Guide http://cnx.org/content/m15767/latest/