An Introduction to Open Educational Practices

1. Opening Social Work Education:
An Introduction to Open Educational Practices
Michelle Reed, @LibrariansReed
Open Education Librarian | UTA Libraries | 9.8.17
https://www.slideshare.net/oelib/opening-SW-education

2. 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.
- David Wiley
“Be a champion of a cause and don't give up.”
- TJ Bliss
“Research provides the foundation of modern society. Research leads to
breakthroughs, and communicating the results of research is what allows us to
turn breakthroughs into better lives—to provide new treatments for disease, to
implement solutions for challenges like global warming, and to build entire
industries around what were once just ideas. However, our current system for
communicating research is crippled by a centuries old model that hasn’t been
updated to take advantage of 21st century technology.”
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
“Isn’t it amazing that
what serves social justice
also serves effective pedagogy
and is empirically supported?”
- Rajiv Jhangiani

3. What is Open?
Freeimages.com (lyn belisle)

5. The 5 Rs of Open
1. Retain
2. Reuse
3. Revise
4. Remix
5. Redistribute

7. Open Educational Resources
Freeimages.com (Joanie Cahill)

8. Open Educational Resources Defined
“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and
repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any
other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to
knowledge.”
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

12. The average student budgets
$1,249 - $1,364
on textbooks and course materials
in 2015-16.

13. 2012 2016
63.6% 66.5% Not purchase the required textbook
49.2% 47.6% Take fewer courses
45.1% 45.5% Not register for a specific course
33.9% 37.6% Earn a poor grade
26.7% 26.1% Drop a course
17.0% 19.8% Fail a course
In your academic career, has the cost of required
textbooks caused you to:

14. Create/share “translator” syllabus providing
page/chapter numbering for alternate versions
Direct student to public domain works
when available (e.g., Project Gutenberg)
Consider library-licensed materials
Clearly note on syllabus when free or open
resources are used in a class
Journeying Toward Affordability

16. More open access publishing
A change in how we allocate spending
Increased engagement
Improved retention
Improved completion rates
Improved pedagogy
Ownership of course content
New partnerships and collaborative opportunities
Beyond Affordability

17. Open Pedagogy
Freeimages.com (Joanie Cahill)

18. US college students spend
approximately 40 million hours
doing homework every year

19. Dump the Disposable Assignment
Freeimages.com (Joe Zlomek)

20. Experiential Learning
Project-Based Learning
Renewable Assessments
Persistent Assignments
OER-Enabled Pedagogy
Open Educational Practices
Open Pedagogy

21. Community & Collaboration
Student Agency
Intellectual Property Rights
Public Contexts
Authentic Audiences
Valuing Student Work
Empowering Students as Content Creators
Open Emphasizes

22. 1. We learn by the things we do.
2. Copyright restricts what we are permitted to do.
3. Consequently, copyright restricts the ways we are
permitted to learn.
4. Open removes these restrictions, permitting us to do
new things.
5. Consequently, open permits us to learn in new ways.
How Might Open Influence Pedagogy?

23. Open Textbooks, Open Pedagogy
“I’ve spent some time talking about open pedagogy at several universities this Spring, and in each of those
presentations and workshops, I have usually mentioned The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an OER
anthology that my students and I produced last year for an American literature survey course I taught. When I talk
about the anthology, it’s usually to make a point about open pedagogy. I began the project with the simple desire to
save my students about $85 US, which is how much they were (ostensibly) paying for the Heath Anthology of
American Literature Volume A. Most of the actual texts in the Heath were a public domain texts, freely available and
not under any copyright
restrictions. As the Heath
produced new editions (of
literature from roughly 1400-
1800!), forcing students to buy
new textbooks or be irritatingly
out of sync with page numbers,
and as students turned to rental
markets that necessitated them
giving their books back at the end
of the semester, I began to look in
earnest for an alternative.”
- Robin DeRosa

24. From Open Data to Open Pedagogy

27. How is Open Different?
Current: Students research a current issue related to a northwestern Native
American tribe
New: Students determine the gaps in the commonly available literature
and interview members of a tribe in order to add native voice to the
available perspectives. The bibliography is published in an open format.
Students discuss what gets published, why, and whose voice is left out of
“published” conversations.

28. Questions?

29. Requests
Contact me before you commit to writing or
contributing to a commercial textbook.
Consider opportunities for integrating open
practices into teaching and learning.
Open education is ripe with grant prospects.
Get in touch! I’m here to help.

30. Thank You
http://www.slideshare.net/oelib
Michelle Reed
michelle.reed@uta.edu