Openness as a Catalyst for Education (2009)

Openness as a Catalyst for Education Jared Stein Utah Valley University [email_address]

Openness in Education
Finding and Using OER
You, Opening

“ Teaching is sharing.” David Wiley

Rob Kalin
“ I graduated high school with a D- average ...
“ I got into a diploma program art school in Boston ... I used the art school to make a fake ID to go to MIT...
“ Someone said [college is] expensive. I said, No, it's free, you just won't get credit for it.”
http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2009/05/hacking_education.html

ocw.mit.edu – 1900+ courses

O pen
E ducational
R esources
freely available for everyone online

Self-check activity from Carnegie-Mellon’s “Logic and Proofs”.

Video of Prof. Shelly Kagan in Yale’s PHIL 176 course, “Death”

Carnegie-Mellon’s multi-part, multi-chapter “Logic and Proofs” course

Open CourseWare Consortium www.ocwconsortium.org

Fu Jen Catholic University National Cheng Kung University National Chengchi University National Chiao Tung University National Sun Yat-Sen University National Taiwan Normal University National Taiwan University of Science and Technology National Tsing Hua University Tainan National University of The Arts Taipei Medical University Thailand Thailand Cyber University Turkey Middle East Technical University Turkish OpenCourseWare Consortium United Kingdom Mathematical Institute, Oxford University Peoples-uni.org The Open University The University of Nottingham United States Arizona State University College of Eastern Utah Dixie State College of Utah Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Kaplan Higher Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michigan State University Open Institute of law, Int. Tufts University UC Berkeley University of Alaska Fairbanks University of California, Irvine University of Massachusetts Boston University of Michigan University of Notre Dame University of Utah University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Utah State University Utah Valley University Weber State University Western Governors University Wheelock College Venezuela Universidad Central de Venezuela Universidad de Los Andes Universidad Fermín Toro University of the Western Cape Spain Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU IE University OpenCourseWare Universia Universidad AutÃ³noma de Madrid Universidad Cadiz Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Cantabria Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Universidad de Granada Universidad de Huelva Universidad de La Laguna Universidad de Malaga Universidad de Murcia Universidad de Navarra Universidad de Oviedo Universidad de Salamanca Universidad de Sevilla Universidad de Valladolid Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad Extremadura Universidad Internacional de Andalucía Universidad Nacional de Educacion UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE CARTAGENA Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Universidad Politecnica Madrid Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona Universitat de Girona Universitat de les Illes Balears Universitat de València Universitat Jaume I Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili University of Deusto UPV/EHU Switzerland University of Lausanne Taiwan Aletheia University Matou Campus Chang Jung Christian University Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology Diwan University Kyushu University Meiji University Nagoya University Osaka University Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Ritsumeikan University Tokyo Institute of Technology United Nations University University of Tokyo University of Tsukuba Waseda University Korea, Republic Of Handong Global University Inha University Korea University Kyung Hee Cyber University Kyung Hee University Pukyong National University Pusan National University Sang-Mung Seoul National University of Technology Lebanon Global University Mexico Tecnologico de Monterrey Universidad de Monterrey Universidad del Caribe Netherlands HAN University of Applied Sciences Open University Netherlands TU Delft Palestinian Territory, Occupied Al Azhaz University - Gaza Peru Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería Puerto Rico Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico Russian Federation Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Saudi Arabia Alfaisal University King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals King Saud University Saudi Aramco South Africa Universidad Metropolitana Universidad Monteávila Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin Viet Nam EduNet Vietnam Affiliate Organizations California Psychological Association Center for Open and Sustainable Learning Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science Chulalongkorn University Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Connexions Creative Commons enPraxis European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice FinalsClub.org GEM4 HETS iBerry Institute for Electronic Governance Intelligent Television Korea Education & Research Information Service MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Monterey Institute for Technology and Education National Africa Foundation National Institute of Multimedia Education Novell, Inc. OCW Translations Inc. OER Africa OOPS Open Courseware Iran Open High School of Utah Open Learning Exchange Scribd Software Engineering Consortium Taiwan OpenCourseWare Consortium Vietnam Education Foundation Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) VMHN.ORG Afghanistan Kabul Polytechnic University Australia University of Southern Queensland Austria Klagenfurt University Brazil ESAGS - Escola Superior de Administração e Gestão Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV Online Uniso- Universidade de Sorocaba Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco Canada Athabasca University Capilano University Chile Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Universidad de Chile China China Open Resources for Education Colombia Universidad de Manizales Universidad Icesi Universidad Industrial de Santander Universidad Nacional de Colombia Costa Rica Universidad Estatal a Distancia Dominican Republic Las Americas Institute of technology (ITLA) France Grenoble Ecole de Management Paris Tech Université de Lyon Iran, Islamic Republic Of Baha'i Institute for Higher Education Israel The Open University of Israel Japan Doshisha University Hokkaido University Japan OCW Consortium Kagawa Nutrition University Kansai University Keio University Kyoto Seika University Kyoto University Open CourseWare Consortium ~200 Members www.ocwconsortium.org

Motivations for Openness
Reputation
Philanthropy
Sustaining

BYU OCW Pilot Study
Justin Johansen & David Wiley
http://bit.ly/2uVmTE
Opening 1 course = $250
Conversion $ per year = $4,300

Motivations for Openness
Reputation
Philanthropy
Sustaining
Visionary

Era of Lifelong Learning?

Openness in Education
Finding OER
You, Opening

openhighschool.org

wikieducator.org wikiversity.org wikibooks.org wikipedia.org

5 Fav OER Projects

openlearn.open.ac.uk
License: CC By-NC-SA
Media Types: HTML, XML, JPG/PNG/GIF, MP4, (IMS, Moodle ZIP), etc
Reuse/Remix Estimate: 4.5 - Very easy

oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Media Types: HTML, JS, Java Servlet, SWF, JPG/PNG/GIF
Reuse/Remix Estimate: 2.5 - Fair

oyc.yale.edu
Media Types: HTML, XML, MP3, FLV, MOV, PDF, (IMS ZIP)
Reuse/Remix Estimate: 3.5 - Easy

webcast.berkeley.edu
License: CC By-NC-ND
Media Types: MP3, SWF, RM, h.264, RSS
Reuse/Remix Estimate: 1 - Low

cnx.org
License: CC By
Media Types: CNXML, HTML, JPG/PNG/GIF, MID, PDF, etc
Reuse/Remix Estimate: 4.5 - Very easy

Search engines
Google, Flickr
http://ocwfinder.com
http://oerrecommender.org
http://learn.creativecommons.org
Directories
OpenCourseWare Consortium http://ocwconsortium.org
OER Commons http://oercommons.org
CCCOER http://oerconsortium.org

You, Opening

wikilearn.uvu.edu

wikilearn.uvu.edu/cs

Daily Herald Photo Friday, July 20, 2007 page D3 “ Professor of Sociology at UVU Ron Hammond … protesting against textbooks, not requiring students to purchase even his own” “ An act of community service to the whole country…”

TIME LMS v. PLE End of the Semester Learning Network Size Timeline courtesy of Jon Mott, BYU

TIME Activity SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 5 SEMESTER 6 LMS PLE LMS v. PLE Timeline courtesy of Jon Mott, BYU

OER Tools and Platforms

Free blogs: wordpress.com
Free software: wordpress.org
See Jim Groom’s WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare: http://bavatuesdays.com/wordpresscom-as-opencourseware/

Free software: http://mediawiki.org

wikispaces.com

flickr.com

Download: http://educommons.org
Example: http://open.usu.edu

creativecommons.org/license/

Why use OER?

OER Handbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook

Open Ed Blogs
Open Culture http://openculture.com
Open Ed News http://openeducationnews.org
David Wiley http://opencontent.org

Image credits
Hoodia gordonii photo by M. Heigan: http://flickr.com/photos/martin_heigan/423391945/
Yinqixing http://blog.clarknielsen.com/2009/10/yinqixing-shanghais-indoor-skiing-dump/
“ Rusty Cage” photo by Pietroizzo: http://flickr.com/photos/pietroizzo/327485958/
Biosphere 2 photo by Ryan Thomas: http://flickr.com/photos/ryanthomas/297717379/
Door Knocker of Needful Things: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/2784728947/
Hunter Park walk/bike path 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/leagueofmichiganbicyclists/3754409467/
Free Kittens http://www.flickr.com/photos/7467060@N06/2930181209/

References
OER Handbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook
MIT OCW: Making the Case http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/MakingTheCase.htm
Open Textbook Articles http://oerconsortium.org/2008/07/28/open-textbook-articles-published-in-jejhe/
BYU OER Policy Background http://docs.google.com/View?id=dczd9vkv_132dv92krhp
MIT OCW Stats http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/stats/ On the Sustainability of OER Projects http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2009/01/27/on-the-sustainability-of-oer-projects/
Review of 7 OER Projects http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2009/02/05/7oer/
Creative Commons. About Licenses. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
Whitehouse: AGI http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Investing-in-Education-The-American-Graduation-Initiative/
Open Textbook Adoption Guide http://cnx.org/content/m15767/latest/

Openness as a Catalyst for Education (2009)

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