Quick intro to open education, mena oer fellows

Open Sharing, Global BenefitsThe OpenCourseWare Consortium

www.ocwconsortium.org

Who we are

~300 members from around the world

We exist to support open education in higher ed

A Powerful Idea

To advance formal and informal learning worldwide through the sharing and use of free, open, high quality education materials

• Education builds the future.• Education is sharing.• Open allows more rapid building

and sharing at a larger scale.

Open Education starts with basic ideas:

Open EducationTerms Open Educational ResourcesOpenCourseWareOpen Educational PracticeOpen Textbooks

= Free and Open

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to change

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OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that permit their free use and re-purposing by others.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER are building blocks for innovation in higher education

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OER Allows Higher Education

to reconsider approaches to teaching

and learning

Faculty do it all Faculty don’t have to do it all

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Resources can come from everywhereInteractivity and learning support can come from anywhere

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usaid_images/6462458071/CC-BY-NC-SA by USAID images

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to change

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How do faculty use resources from the internet in their courses?

Conditions CC licenses

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

most free

Most restrictive

Wikipedia: Over 77,000 contributors working on over 22 million articles in 285 languages

175+ Million CC Licensed Photos on Flickr

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Slides 21-28 from Cable Green, http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/open-education-the-business-andpolicy-case-for-oer

Free no cost

OpenNo cost + permission to change

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By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/

Going back to the idea of Free and Open: A look at MOOCs

MOOCsMOOCs offer fully online courses to anyone without cost to the learner.

These courses are generally large scale, up to thousands of students.

They offer interactivity through frequent, built in assessments and sometimes peer discussion and guidance from teaching assistants.

Users tend to be already highly educated (surveys indicate +/- 70% already have at least one post-secondary degree)

Data gathered from users allow interesting research into online learning habits and preferences.

Content is almost always fully copyrighted.

Most MOOCs offer free access, but do not grant permission to modify, translate, broadcast or re-distribute; they are free, but not open.

Example, Coursera terms of serviceYou may access the course for personal use only, you may not modify or reuse without permission.

Anything you contribute to the course can be used, modified, distributed by Coursera without notification or further permission from you.

This may be fine if what you want is to follow a free course. However, if you want to make any modification, use it in a classroom, show content to a group, etc. you need to get permission as you would with any fully copyrighted work.

Examples of how to use openly licensed work

Images from Flikr www.flikr.com• Search for photos using “Advanced Search”. • Enter your keyword (eg. Washington DC) and select the box

“Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content”• Find the license for the photo on the photo information page

when you click on the image.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcomsoc/7848288726/

Attribution ShareAlike

This photo is licensed CC-BY-SA

• You are free to use this for any purpose, including commercial

• You may modify the image (cropping is not considered a modification)

• You must give attribution (unless otherwise specified, a link to the source is fine)

• Any modifications of the photo must be shared under the same license

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Examples of how to use openly licensed work

Open Educational Resources• Search for materials in an open repository

– www.ocwconsortium.org/courses– www.oercommons.org– www.connexions.org– www.merlot.org– Many others

• Find the license for the materials on the information page or on the site itself

http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007

Attribution

http://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/physics140/fall2007 This course is licensed CC-BY • You are free to use, modify and distribute all or any

part of this course, including for commercial use• You must give attribution to the University of

Michigan and cite the source

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