5 May 2009
Open Science in Poland
Otwarta Nauka w Polsce
Educating for
Innovation with
Creative
Commons
Ahrash Bissell
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Where do IDEAS come from?
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The world
is changing…
Tecbndxt Armel
http://flickr.com/photos/18209739@N04/238619081/

The world
Connected
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expert
community
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community
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The world
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The world
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community
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The world
Connected
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expert
community
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community
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colleagues

The world
Connected
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expert
community
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community
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colleagues

The world
Connected
public
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expert
community
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community
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Connected
The world
public
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expert
community
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colleagues
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community
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The
Internet
is a BIG
network
…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_map_1024.jpg Tecbxt Matt Britt

[Here is] a set of rules that describe our reactions to
technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're
born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part
of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when
you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and
revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is
against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt. 2002.

What are Open Educational Resources?
OER are digitized materials
offered freely and openly for
educators, students, self-
learners, and anyone else to
use and reuse for
teaching, learning, and
cba
Michael Reschke
research.
2007. Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (OECD)
learn.creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/38654317.pdf

What is different about OER?
Most digital media = “stuff you can see online
for free”
fair-use and educational exceptions
OER = “stuff you can adapt and then share for
others to build on”
license to innovate

http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

Open education supports
skill development through
Active learner participation
• finding
• evaluating
• generating knowledge
Skills gained: • critical thinking
• creativity
• communication
• collaboration
Tecbnaxtby Susan Ware
flickr.com/photos/suswar/2500249119/

Open education supports equal
educational opportunity,
regardless of
region,
income,
or level of technology.
cRibna.
http://flickr.com/photos/vernhart/1511413221/ Vern Hart

http://flickr.com/photos/nofrills/10895361/
OER can be easily
modified, translated,
and shared,
so they encourage
local production of
educational resources
Ricbn by nofrills
Ricb Thomas Sly
http://flickr.com/photos/tomsly/87973199/
suited to both individual and
societal values, language and
culture.
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Ricbna. Judy Baxter
Advanced technology
is not necessary.
Ricbna. Venkatesh Hariharan
OER can be
easily modified
and adapted to
different learning
circumstances.
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TecbnaxtMax
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimax/303567279/
Open education supports
• formal education
• informal education
• lifelong learning

A child educated only at school
is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the
amount of ignorance it accumulates in the
form of inert facts.
- Henry B. Adams

But there are barriers…
legal
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social
Judy Baxter cbna
flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/501511984/
technical
Tantek Çelik cbn
flickr.com/photos/tantek/85610375/

Our mission is to minimize legal, technical, and
social barriers to sharing and reuse of
educational materials.

Creative Commons
• What is Creative Commons (CC)?

Only CC licenses consist of these
three crucial parts:
human-readable lawyer-readable machine-readable
deed code code
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work is licensed under a <a
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Attribution 3.0 United States
License</a>.

Ben Adida, CC
There is a significant gap between what computers
“see” and what humans see.

Understanding a
Resources
“commons”
Technical Socioeconomic
Cultural
factors
Unfamiliarity Languages
Teacher
education
Time Developed
management world
Agency
Workload
Teacher Developing
salaries world
Standardized Awareness, Misco
Organizational
n
curricula
nceptions
Pressures
Tenure Other legal
standards terms
(Bissell and Boyle)

What do we really want
students to learn?
• How big is the moon?
• How do we know how big the moon is?
• What are the ways of measuring the size of
space objects like the moon? Why do the
measurements vary? Why would we trust one
versus the other?
• Why is the size of the moon, or any other
space object, of potential interest? To whom?

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to find the information they want.

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to sort that information according to its
quality, relevance, and a multitude of other
variables.

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to work effectively with other
people, from a diversity of
backgrounds, cultures, and areas of
expertise, both face to face and virtually.

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to apply critical thinking and
metacognitive skills to their work to improve
both the process and the outcomes.

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to identify, leverage, and improve upon
existing tools and applications to meet specific
needs – customizing without isolating.

The researchers of tomorrow
will need to know…
• how to create new opportunities –
financial, social, and otherwise – without
preventing people from accessing and
innovating on the information.

http://flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/ Tecbdxt Jeffrey Beall

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