Save the Trees!

SAVE THE TREES!Mary Cash and Karen KaemmerlingELCC 2011

What is Open Content "Open content is content that is licensed in a manner that

provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user.”

The primary usage rights open content is concerned with are: Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim

form Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with

other content to create something new Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your

revisions, or your remixes with others

http://opencontent.org/definition/

Advantages for Faculty No waiting for students to get text Content is current/relevant Content is engaging/dynamic Content is easier to manipulate Faculty may find open source content

more engaging for themselves and for their students (Shakespeare course a great example!)

Advantages for Students Have “text” when class starts Lower or No cost More dynamic/engaging content Appeals to more learning styles

Audio Video

Carry chunked content Printable

Common Elements in Design

Discussion Intensive Research Based Homework Student Centered Learning Scaffold Assignments

ANT 101 Example Provides a custom Search Engine

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012814712747096910814:2wm6lwfl5hs

Provides “required” internet resources for each Unit Wikibooks:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology/Introduction

Permissions to use material in course http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/default.htm

HIS 202 Example NROC content

Interactive maps and images Sound files Mini Lectures as videos Printable www.Hippocampus.org Web Links

ENG 122 Example Course Readings pulled from the Purdue OWL:

Research and Citation, Argument and MLA Styleguide (2009) and information on rhetoric/argument comes from .

Students choose their semester-long research topic by visiting/browsing/searching through a list of online magazines including: Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The New Republic, Discover, Seed Magazine, The Utne Reader, Mother Jones.

Students can search for articles by going to the CCCOnline article databases, or they can search the article databases and use the library resources at their home schools (See the CCCOnline Library Resources information on our student wiki:

Some ENG 122 courses also incorporate sources/tutorials, etc. from the CCCOnline Research and Writing Toolkit (and if they don’t . . . they should!)

LIT 225 Example Play texts from Open Source Shakespeare (reformatted

slightly and saved into course) Audio recordings from LibriVox

(note: took play texts and reformatted slightly and placed files in course; with LibriVox audio recordings – downloaded and put on our media server to ensure continuous access.)

Videos – majority come from open source (Google/PBS, etc.); students need to rent Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) and check another one out from the library (Measure for Measure).

Course also points to play synopses (text and audio) and a multitude of Shakespeare web resources (Example: King Lear from PBS).

Challenges with Open Content

More time and work to develop

More maintenance

ADA compliance More student

support

Read content on screen

Access to technology

No book to hold Non traditional Need tech

assistance

Instructors Students

Solutions

Don’t over do it Improve page

design Incorporate

multimedia Be available

Provide affordable print versions

Provide time to become familiar with format

Provide usability tips

Instructors Students

Feedback from Students “I'm learning a lot and finding it easier to

find more information without a book. The internet is a good source.”

“This class allows me to do my own research and by doing that it challenges me to find out everything about a certain topic in order to truly understand it.”

“I appreciate the lower cost and I do think I get more from hearing it and then reading it. ”

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