Open Education Week - Why Open Matters - March 13, 2014

Why Open MattersMarch 13, 2014

Mathieu Plourde

Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate Educational TechnologistIT Academic Technology Services

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HISTORY LESSON

A little

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Traditional software model

Credit: somethingstartedcrazy and Rob on Flickr.

Open source software

USERS DEVELOPERS

Source: Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems (Wired)

Open encyclopedia

Gratis

Libre&

(free of charge)

(freedom of use)

OPEN EDUCATION

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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

Open educational resources

Learning materials

Collection Learning object

Learning materials

Collection Learning object

Whole

Traditional

Fixed

Peer-reviewed

"Nugget"

Innovative

Evolving

"Wisdom of the crowd"

Learning materials

Collection 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)

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/

AFFORDABILITY CONCERNS

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Increase in textbook prices and college tuition

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Demand for degrees

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19McCoy, 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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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

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

TEXTBOOKS, (UN)BUNDLED

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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

Source: Ben Britton on Flickr

BARRIERS TO OPEN

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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 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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OTHER OPENNESSES

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Buy one, get one

“The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the

National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication:

Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm

“Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data

resulting from federally funded scientific research.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

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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

Public engagement

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-professors-we-need-you.html?_r=0

CONCLUSION

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Learning resources ecosystem

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Curriculum design

• Commercial textbook selection

• Build from scratch • Learning objectives

• Course outline

• Explore OER

• Identify gaps

• Explore commercial options

• Remix, repurpose

• Build, share, improve

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Course continuous improvement with OER

Open as a competitive advantage

• Selling your program as “textbook-free”

• Custom course content vetted and adapted yearly by your professors

• 21st century scholarship (open and networked)

• Faculty development

• Public engagement

WE NEED YOU!

Explore OER on your own!

Explore and submit UD resources

http://ats.udel.edu/open

List of global resources

http://sites.udel.edu/open/finding/

Mathieu Plourde, MBA, Ed.D. Candidate Educational TechnologistIT Academic Technology Services

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