Presentation delivered during Open Access Week at Vancouver Island University

2. The scope of openness
• Open scholarship
• Open access
• Open licensing
• Open education practices
• Open education resources
• Open source software
• Open data
• Open research
• Open science
• Open web
• Open knowledge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5535034664/sizes/o/in/photostream/

3. ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jannemei/1023015396/sizes/o/in/photostream/

4. So many opens
• Open scholarship
• Open access
• Open licensing (Michael)
• Open education practices
• Open education resources (Michael)
• Open source software (Michael)
• Open research (Dana)
• Open data (Kathleen)
• Open science
• Open web
• Open knowledge
Previous three slides from : Why open education matters in South Africa -
http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/why-open-education-matters-in-south-
africahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

5. What happens when you create and
share something on the internet?
Your work is automatically protected under copyright!

6. Online DOES NOT EQUAL openly
licensed!
Pixel | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08/5025870260/ Author: filin
ilia - aliyo.hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

7. © Cancels the Possibilities
Of digital media and the internet
Internet Copyright
Enables Forbids
What to do?
Wiley, D. (2012) Openness and the Future. ETS Future of Assessment Conference. Presentation available:
http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/openness-and-the-future-of-assessment

8. Alternative copyright Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

9. Minimum Total Creative Commons Licensed Works
450,000,000
400,000,000
350,000,000
300,000,000
250,000,000
200,000,000
150,000,000
100,000,000
50,000,000
0
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics

10. • All content becomes
shareable
• Copyright made explicit
• New ways of describing
content (and looking for it)
• New ways of tracking usage
• Discoverable resources for
educators
Title : File:Internet map 1024.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg
license : Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Internet Open | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balleyne/2668834386/lightbox/Author: balleyne
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

11. Introducing Open Educational
Resources?
• Educational curriculum, materials or mixed
media
• Discoverable online as they are shared freely
and openly
• Openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)
• Can be legally used by anyone to repurpose/
improve and redistribute

12. The origins of OER: MIT OpenCourseWare

13. Open educational video: The Khan Academy

14. Wikipedia & Wikimedia

15. Aggregating various content: OER Commons

16. Compfight image search

17. Creative Commons Search

18. Free and open source software
Alternative to: Dreamweaver or
hand coded web design
Alternative to: Adobe
Audition or Wavelab Alternative to: MS
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acces
s, Visio
Alternative to: MS Notepad
or Dreamweaver Alternative to: MS
Alternative to: Adobe Alternative to: MS
Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator Windows, Apple OS
MediaPlayer
More here: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/03/20-
most-popular-open-source-software-ever-2.html

19. University of Minnesota: Open academics
textbook catalog

20. B.C. Open Textbook Project
“B.C. is leveraging 21st century-
technologies and licensing to ensure its
citizens have affordable access to high-
quality post-secondary textbooks. Open
licensing on publicly funded content
ensures the greatest impact for the
public dollar.“
Dr. Cable Green (Creative Commons)
Brigham Young University faculty survey seeks to advance open education
through academic libraries | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/ Author:
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2012AEIT0010-001581.htm opensourceway http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

21. http://slidesha.re/TcVC9N
Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
michael.paskevicus@viu.ca
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Blog: http://wordpress.viu.ca/edtechdev/
Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi
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