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How Digital, Networked Technologies and SharingChanges Education
Dr. Cable Green
eLearning Director

Let’s talk about the big trends & how to prepare for inevitable change&how Illinois Higher Education can think in new ways to leverage digital, networked technologies…

“We are in the midst of a technological, economic, and organizational transformation that allows us to negotiate the terms of freedom, justice, and productivity in the information society”
Yochai Benkler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonewolf23/1570632701/

Yes… We Really are Networked…
seamless connection of people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content
mobile, personal
global platform for collaboration
outsourcing
Anyone notice our global economy?

"According to an IBM study, in 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."

And we can make
all of our
“digital stuff”
available to
all people…
and most of it
will get used...
by someone.

“Long Tail” of Publishing
$
long tail
HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differentialequations

We All Get to Participate
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart

And they want services
like this:
Backup

So how do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using
technologies that haven’t been
invented, to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

(1) Engage Participatory / “Web 2.0”
Tools & Practices

Social Networking

Share Photos
http://www.flickr.com

Share Slides (and use others’)
http://www.slideshare.net

Share Video

Blog
http://www.blogger.com

Tweet
http://twitter.com

(2) eLearning
Why call it “eLearning?”

“Distance” is about geographic separation.
“eLearning” is about leveraging the unique affordances of digital, networked technologies to support new ways of learning in new spaces.
Online, Hybrid, Enhanced
“eLearning”

Going to Web and Mobile

20,583

Ongoing eLearning Growth
Over 96,600 students learn online each year + 34,000 Hybrid
Online FTE up more than 22%
Hybrid FTE up more than 45%
18% (and growing) of all state instruction is delivered via online or hybrid instruction.
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Ongoing Online Learning Growth
45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid
23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online
16 colleges offer an AA degree online
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Why does this growth matter?

Educate More Citizens
HECB Master Plan
I. Raise educational attainment to create prosperity, opportunity
Policy Goal: Increase the total number of degrees and certificates…
By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees annually.

2008-09 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Trips / CO2 Savings
2.2M round trips avoided
= reduced traffic congestion
3.3M gallons of gas saved
64.4M pounds of CO2 not in the air
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http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/weekly/img/2007_0806_i5_traffic.jpg

(3) Open Educational Resources

Why is “Open” Important?
When we cooperate and share, we all win
Faculty have new choices when building learning spaces.
…the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance for a solution.
Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks
Self-interest: good things happen when I share
It’s a social justice issue: everyone should have the right to access digital knowledge.

Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

(a few) Open Content Repositories
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO
OCW – MIT (MIT HS)
China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
Rice Connexions

The Old Economics
Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/

The New Economics
Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously
Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf

The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf

The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.
http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp

May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

Why so urgent?
Consider One High Enrollment Course:
English Composition I
42,600+ enrollments / year
X $100 textbook
= $4.2Million + (cost to students)
What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses?
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

Hey Higher Education!
We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content
move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
Content is not a strategic advantage
Nor can we (or our students) afford it

What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
Google, Amazon, Apple, Open Source,
Open Content, Open Textbooks…
Functional Possibilities
Higher Education
Time

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How is the fiscal health
of your local newspaper?

http://techplan.sbctc.edu
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“We will cultivate the culture and
practice of using and contributing to
open educational resources.”

But using open educational resources – and contributing to them – requires significant change in the culture of higher education.It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats when shared. (p.11)
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WA Legislation
SSHB1946 – two big ideas – share technology and share content.
(v) Methods and open licensing options for effectively sharing digital content including but not limited to: Open courseware, open textbooks, open journals, and open learning objects…
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New State Board Policy
All digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Student Advocacy
WA CTC 2009 Student Voice Academy
(1) CUTTING TEXTBOOK COSTS
“The high cost of textbooks is a burden to students….”
Top Issue three years running….
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Opening 81 Common Courses
Gates + Legislature + SBCTC + Colleges
“Open Course Library”
Designing 81 highest enrolled courses
Courses will be Digital – can be taught online, hybrid, web-enhanced and/or faculty can re-mix
Open CC Licensing – everyone has access
< $30 textbooks … or Free
81 courses enrollments = $52M+ / year in textbook costs
Develop a culture of sharing content in the WA CTCs
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Federal Movement on Open?
Obama’s American Graduation Initiative
“$50M / year for the creation of open courseware”
DOE talking about part of $2B in Community College spending
Senator Dick Durbin (IL)
Talking about “Open Textbooks” – pilot fund
Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter
OER leader when Chancellor @ Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Federal Research Access Act of 2009
increasing public access to academic research that is funded by the federal government (free after 6 mos)
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Principle: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org

NEW HE Models are En Route

Choices:
(1) Open up and
leverage global input
OR
(2) close up shop

Think Big Crazy Ideas….
We could share all of our instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources … anduse others’ digital materials.
Publicly funded digital content = openly licensed and freely available to those that paid for it.

1.
“Top 50” Courses

Blogs: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Twitter: cgreen
Dr. Cable Green
eLearning Director
cgreen@sbctc.edu
(360) 704-4334

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