Opportunity Side of Open

The Opportunity Side of Open Paul Stacey February 3, 2011

BCcampus 3 Strategic Activities
Federated, secure, and trusted data network for data exchange between institutions
Collaborative programs and educational technology shared services
System wide educator support through online communities of practice, funding for online program development, and shared re-usable tools and resources
http://www.bccampus.ca

Challenging Times Going Digital http://edtechfrontier.com Access Copyright’s Royalty Demands Spark Interest in OER

Open Source Software Open-Source Software (OSS): Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.

Open Source Software
Benefits:
$0 licensing fee
easily and quickly adapted
customization and enhancements don't require large investments
not dependent on proprietary vendors implementation decision or timeline
source code bugs, improvements and feature requests are all openly shared and managed
education institutions can join forces to form community based developer networks or share hosting & support
participants in the developer communities are also users of the software

Moodle http://moodle.org

Royal Roads University Moodle http://oer.royalroads.ca/moodle

Lots Of OSS in Education

Open Access Research Publication Open Access (OA): Free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide. There are two roads to OA: 1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing , where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all) 2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

Open Access Press http://www.aupress.ca

Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org

Open Access Journals http://www.openj-gate.com

Open Government & Data Open Government: A policy and legal framework to open up access to publicly held information, promoting transparency and enabling wider economic and social gain.
promote creative and innovative activities, which will deliver social and economic benefits
make government more transparent and open in its activities, ensuring that the public are better informed about the work of the government and the public sector
enable more civic and democratic engagement through social enterprise and voluntary and community activities

Open Government/Data

Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Educational Resources (OER): Learning materials that are freely available under a license that allows them to be:
reused - you have the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form
revised - you have the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
remixed - you have the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
redistributed - you have the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
Implementation involves licenses, tools (store, search distribute, …), processes (design, development, …) and resulting content (full courses, modules, learning objects, media elements, …)

Foundation Funded OER http://cnx.org http://openlearn.open.ac.uk http://ocw.mit.edu

Publicly Funded OER http://solr.bccampus.ca http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english http://www.jorum.ac.uk

Open Textbooks
An emerging development in OER is open textbooks
An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s).
The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or print the book at no additional cost.
Open textbooks help solve the problems of the high cost of textbooks, book shortages, and access to textbooks as well as providing the capacity to better meet local teaching and learning needs.
Students spending roughly $900-$1,000 a year on texts.

Open Textbooks http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+student+textbook+fees+could+half/4010791/story.html “ Gov. Schwarzenegger Launches First-in-Nation Initiative to Develop Free Digital Textbooks for High School Students” “ Texas seeks open textbooks.”

Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org http://oerconsortium.org

FlatWorld Knowledge

Online Program Development
Starting in 2003 BCcampus issued an annual Online Program Development Fund (OPDF) Request for Proposals (RFP) to all of BC's public post secondary institutions.
The OPDF call for proposals emphasizes inter-institutional collaboration and partnerships for development of online learning resources.
Development is focused on for-credit online learning resources that give students access to more programs leading to complete degrees, diplomas and certificates.
http://opdf.pbworks.com

Online Program Development
8.25 million (2003-2009); 2010 $750K
1 31 grants awarded (2003-2009)
100% participation across the post-secondary system
83% partnerships - mostly inter-institutional but also with K-12, health authorities, not-for-profits, professional associations, e-learning companies, First Nations, foundations, amongst others.
41 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
317 courses, 10 workshops, 18 web sites/tools and 338 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos) developed across almost all academic fields of study
100% licensed for open free sharing & reuse by all post-secondary

UNBC OPDF Projects
19 developments as lead or in partnership
Partnered with: CAM, CAP, CNC, CoTR, ECUAD, RRU, SFU, TRU, UBC, VIU 10 of 25 institutions
Courses: 41 Web Sites/Tools: 3 Learning Objects: 69
Local Government Education Program
Northern Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Program
Virtual Soil Forming Processes
Advanced Diploma in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Electronic Passports of Participation
BC OpenSim

Making OER Open
Intellectual Property
creations of the mind for which property rights are recognized
common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets
Copyright
a set of exclusive rights granted by law to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work
uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others
exceptions and limitations balance the public interest and include fair dealing (Canada) and fair use (US)
Licenses that enable reuse, revision, remix and redistribution

Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org

Creative Commons

BC Commons http://www.bccommons.ca

Open Licenses

Finding Open Education Resources

Repository http://solr.bccampus.ca

Repository

The University of Open
What do all these open initiatives have in common?
“ A simple but powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that the Internet provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge.” Wayne Mackintosh OERF
What is the synergistic potential?
“ The University of Open”
http://edtechfrontier.com/2011/01/04/the-university-of-open

Q&A – Followup
Paul Stacey Director Communications, Stakeholder & Academic Relations
BCcampus 555 Seymour Street, Suite 200 Vancouver, BC V6B 3H6
web site: http://www.bccampus.ca phone: 604-412-7736 blog: http://edtechfrontier.com

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