4. We exist to support open education in higher ed
5. A Powerful Idea
To advance formal and informal learning
worldwide through the sharing and use of
free, open, high quality education materials
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8. • Education builds the future.
• Education is sharing.
• Open allows more rapid building
and sharing at a larger scale.
Open Education starts with basic ideas:
10. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
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By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/
11. OER are teaching, learning, and research
materials that permit their free use and
re-purposing by others.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
12. OER are building blocks for
innovation in higher education
bdesham http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesham/2432400623
14. Faculty do it all Faculty don’t have to do it all
By Luther College Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/luthercollegearchives/1485877774/ CC-BY-NC-ND
15. Resources can come from everywhere
Interactivity and learning support can come
from anywhere
18. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/
19. How do faculty use resources
from the internet in their
courses?
28. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Slides 21-28 from Cable Green, http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/open-education-the-business-andpolicy-case-for-oer
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31. Free
no cost
Open
No cost +
permission to change
By Adam Bartlett http://www.flickr.com/photos/atbartlett/2432704579/
By Sean MacEntee http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/4518528819/
Going back to the idea of Free and Open: A look at MOOCs
32. MOOCs
MOOCs 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.
33. Most MOOCs offer free access, but do not grant permission to modify, translate,
broadcast or re-distribute; they are free, but not open.
34. Example, Coursera terms of service
You 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.
35. 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.
37. 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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38. 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
Open Education Week is coming up soon. We have distributed press releases and sent notifications as widely as possible. We need your help to make sure the word gets out. Some ideas follow.
Basis of educationTenant of scholarshipInformation is not a scarce resourceSharing allows collaboration, innovation, advancementCost of not sharing – opportunity cost, etc – too high
Free = no costOpen = no cost and openly licensed, at least including the right to modify
Open license is key.Free as in free beer and free as in freedom
Not the tools of revolution, but ways to support, extend, create,
Another interesting activity being undertaken in Indonesia is the use of OER in formal educational program. The University of Bandun wanted to develop programs in water management. As you know, developing new courses and programs requires a significant financial and time commitment. Rather than investing in faculty developing theoretical lectures, they decided to use these lectures freely and openly offered by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and focus their development efforts on contextualizing theoretical and practical approaches in Indonesian environments and society.
Students benefit from this approach by having more hands on opportunities to explore the application of theory and approach in their local situations. Faculty become engaged in producing locally relevant activities and content, which is then put back as OER so that the rest of the world can benefit from their experience and begin to understand how theoretical concepts can be interpreted and operationalized in different contexts around the world.
Free = no costOpen = no cost and openly licensed, at least including the right to modify
Free = no costOpen = no cost and openly licensed, at least including the right to modify