winter 2016 educ638 openness in education
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EDUC638Openness in EducationFebruary 3, 2016Mathieu Plourde
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BEFORE WE START… 3
What is open?• Let’s gather definitions of the word “open”
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What is free?• Let’s gather definitions of the word “free”
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HISTORY LESSONA 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 spectrumTextbook Learning object
The OER spectrumTextbook Learning object
Whole
Traditional
Fixed
Peer-reviewed
"Nugget"
Innovative
Evolving
"Wisdom of the crowd"
What makes a resource open?• David Wiley's 5Rs:
• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• 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 open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
MASSIVE [OPEN] ONLINE COURSES
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Connectivist MOOCs
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UD’s first MOOC
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www.canvas.net/courses/phoneography-the-basics-of-cell-phone-photography
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Casey Green at #digedcon, April 2013
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
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Perception of quality• Outside resources:
• “Not mine”• “Not peer-reviewed”• “Not someone I know”
• Personal resources:• Copyright confusion• “Not perfect enough to
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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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Not my problem• Teaching undervalued vs. research• Textbook as security blanket• Cost not usually paid by the
teacher but by the learner
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“As these online course products have improved, more and more schools have
plugged them into their curricula. The result is a creeping homogenization of basic classes throughout many U.S. universities. That’s
raising some uncomfortable questions, starting with: Why should I pick one school over another if they offer the exact same classes? And: Why are universities buying
ready-made frozen meals instead of cooking up their own educational fare?”
- Kahn, 2014. College in a Box: Textbook giants are now teaching classes.
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Learning resources ecosystem
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Curriculum design1. Commercial
textbook selection2. Build from scratch 1. Learning objectives
2. Course outline3. Explore OER4. Identify gaps5. Explore commercial
options6. Remix, repurpose7. Build, share,
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Leave your teaching footprint.
It’s all you have!
WE NEED YOU!
Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate
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Open access research
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Open educational practices
• http://sites.udel.edu/openteaching/2013/03/10/openeducationwk-udsnf12/
Personal learning networks
Attribution: Alec Couros (courosa) on Flickr.com