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Open Education
Carl S. Blyth
SwitchPoint Conference
April 24, 2014
OER in COERLL
Defining Open Education
“A collective term that refers to forms of education in which knowledge, ideas or important aspects of teaching methodology or infrastructure are shared freely over the Internet.”
(Wikipedia)
Open Education Movement
“The open education (OE) movement is based on a set of intuitions shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use; that collaboration should be easier, not harder; that people should receive credit and kudos for contributing to education and research; and that concepts and ideas are linked in unusual and surprising ways and not the simple linear forms that today’s textbook present.”
(Baraniuk 2007: 229)
•2002 UNESCO meeting
•Materials offered freely for anyone
•Permission to re-mix, improve, and redistribute.
What are OER?
Types of OER
• Textbooks • Courseware • Classroom Activities, Lesson Plans,
Quizzes• Homework Exercises, Simulations• Authentic Media
What OPEN means to me
1. Free Access (online, no passwords, no fees)
2. Enable the “4 R’s”Reuse - copy verbatimRedistribute - share with othersRevise - adapt and editRemix - combine with others
share-computer-key-260 : taken from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eq/4990131757/Author: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
OER EnablersOpen Standards OER designed for sharing
Open LicensesPermission to share OERTechnologyTools for creating & sharing OER
Communities of practiceSharing ideas & best practices
“Gratis” vs. “Libre”
Photo source: free (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/2698947622/) / tonx (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
Creative Commons: Open Licenses
File:Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
13 million free media files (photos, videos, sounds)http://commons.wikimedia.org
67 million free, shareable photos. (CC BY-NC-SA)http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
40,000 public domain books (65 languages)http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
4 million openly-licensed videos (CC BY)
http://search.creativecommons.orgCC Search
Degrees of Open: Materials
Traditional Materials
All rights reserved
CLOSED OPEN
OERReuse /
Redistribute / Revise / Remix
Degrees of Open: Classrooms
Online• Virtual classroom• Formal (enrolled) “student”• Informal “learner”• MOOC (massively open online
course, e.g., Coursera)
CLOSED OPEN
Traditional• Physical classroom• Enrolled student
Mosaic Cow in St. Joseph, Michigan : taken from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vxla/6183285404/in/photostream/Author: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Degrees of Open: CC Licenses
CLOSED OPEN
BY: AttributionBY: AttributionND: No DerivativesNC: Non Commercial
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Open Textbooks
Open Courseware & Learning Communities
Open Source ToolseComma collaborative annotation tool
Open Corpora
The Open Book Project (Dept. of State)
• Advance health education by creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials.
• Materials created by African Universities in Ghana and South Africa.
• Local Materials + Open Licenses = Greater Access, Visibility, and Use of Knowledge Worldwide
• Mission is to maximize the impact of scholarly work through open sharing. • Health OER and capacity-building in Africa
“We have limited resources but because of the Internet, we can share. The South has diseases [the Global North] knowing nothing about.
Our materials are relevant to us and in the North.”
- A Network
Participant from South Africa
• Addresses complex food safety knowledge and training challenges with free and open learning resources.
• Emerging Markets, Online Training
• Filling critical gaps in agriculture related curriculum.• Best practices for farm communities. • Graduate students central to research, case studies, material
creation.
OER Research Hub (Open University)
Benefits of OER
Lower costs
Greater reach/access
Adaptable materials
Learner-designed thanks to “inreach”
Improved quality thanks to crowd-sourcing
Community of practice
Conclusion: Education is Sharing
“Sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built.”
--Open Education Week Website