open education
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Professional development seminar conducted for eXtension.org.TRANSCRIPT
Open Education
David Wiley, PhDDepartment of Instructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University
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If the Book Didn’t Change Education
Can the internet?Can openness?
Openness… In Education?
Let’s begin by defining terms
Open, adj.
Describes educational artifacts
Open Textbooks
Open Educational Resources
Open Courseware
(Open Source Software)
Open, adj.
Teaching materials freely shared with permissions to engage in the “4R” activities
The 4Rs
Reuse – copy verbatimRedistribute – share with others
Revise – adapt and improveRemix – combine with others
Communicate 4Rs Permissions
Since this overrides default copyright,you must use a copyright license
Offers easy to use 4R’s licenses
While Nouns Differ…
The operationalizing actions are the same
Open, adj.
Generous, sharing, giving
Open, adj.
Providing (1) access and (2) local control
Your Inner Two-year Old
Overcoming the impulse to scream“Mine!”
Law and Policy “Enable” Us
To shout “Mine!” ever more loudly,convulse ever more uncontrollably,
and hit each other with ever larger toys
Society’s Siren Song
“Be selfish. Keep it to yourself. It’s legal. It’s ok.”
Education Is Not Immune
This kind of thinking is accepted
Role of Openness in Education?
A terrible, insidious question
Openness is the only means of doing education.
If There Is No Sharing
There is no education
Successful Educators
Share most thoroughly with the most students
Expertise Is Nonrivalrous
Can be given without being given away
“He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.”
Thomas Jefferson
Expressions Are Different
To give a book you must give it away
Expressions Are Different
To give a book you must give it away
Expressions Are Different
Digital expressions are nonrivalrous
n’t^
E.g., Online Book
We can all read simultaneously
An Indescribable Advance
The first time in human history
Expertise and Its Expressions
Give without giving away
Unprecedented Capacity
We can share as never before
Unprecedented Capacity
We can educate as never before
Stewardship
For which we are accountable
Open Educational Resources
Open Course Ware
Open Course Ware
Open Courses
Open Courses
Open Textbooks
Open Textbooks
Repository Examples
OpenCourseWare Examples
Open Courses Examples
Open Textbook Examples
Expanded Funding
Department of Labor
$2 Billion for high-demand one or two year programs
Accreditation
Get credit for what you know
University of the People
OER University
Mozilla Badge Lab
Extension and Land-Grants
Increasing reach and access
Adopting Open Textbooks
Improving affordabilityimproves access
Buy One, Get One
The public that funded workdeserves access to the work
“Classroom Exhaust”
The by-products of classroom teaching,like syllabi, lecture notes, slides,
assignments and quizzes
We Want to Increase Access
Openness and online materialsgive us incredible opportunities
What Would Morrill 3.0 Be?
It would definitely reimagine access in the context of new tools and
new capabilities
“Can XYZ Change Education?”
As Smokey the Bear said,“Only You Can.”
