12. Open education
"...is the simple and powerful idea that the
world’s knowledge is a public good and that
technology in general and the Worldwide
Web in particular provide an extraordinary
opportunity for everyone to share, use, and
reuse knowledge."
—The William and Flora Hewlett
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17. Demand for degrees
17McCoy, D., Schiller, S. R., Frank, E., & Schiller, S. (2011, April 4). Textbook
Affordability: Emerging Solutions in Ohio. Webinar, . Retrieved from
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/TextbookAffordabilityEmergingS/226560
20. Adopting an open textbook
• Andrea Everard, Associate Professor
• Accounting & MIS
• MISY427 Information Technology
Applications in Management - Fall 2011
• Link to blog post and video testimonial
22. State of Washington
The Open Course Library has saved students $5.5 million in textbook
costs to date, including $2.9 million during the 2012-2013 academic year
alone.”
23. Tidewater Community
College
“For students who pursue the new “textbook-free”
degree, the total cost for required textbooks will
be zero. Instead, the program will use high quality
open textbooks and other open educational
resources, known as OER, which are freely
accessible, openly licensed materials useful for
teaching, learning, assessment and research. It is
estimated that a TCC student who completes the
degree through the textbook-free initiative might
save one-third on the cost of college.”
http://www.tcc.edu/news/press/2013/TextbookFreeDegree.htm
24. Open textbooks in K12
• State of Utah pilot provides a printed copy for $5
per student.
• Replaces a 7 year cycle.
• Fresh content every year, students keep the book.
• Open textbook calculator:
• http://openedgroup.org/calculator/
David Wiley, http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/the-5-texbook
27. Copyright licensing
• Open educational resources (OER) are powered by
Creative Commons. The author sets the acceptable
uses from the get-go.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
28. BEWARE: OPENWASHING
“What's getting lost here is
the power of "free" to benefit
not only institutions, but
students as well.”
- Anya Kamenetz
30. The OER spectrum
Textbook Learning object
Whole
Traditional
Fixed
Peer-reviewed
"Nugget"
Innovative
Evolving
"Wisdom of the crowd"
31. What makes a resource open?
• David Wiley's 5Rs:
• Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
• Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
(e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
• Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the
content itself (e.g., translate the content into another
language)
• Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content
with other open content to create something new (e.g.,
incorporate the content into a mashup)
• Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give
a copy of the content to a friend)
38. Found something interesting?
• How would you incorporate a MOOC in your
everyday life?
• Personally (as a hobby)
• Educationally (to support your coursework as a
student)
• Professionally (to support your lifelong
learning as a professional)
• For teaching (to support your students)
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•pollev.com/educ638open
39. The value of MOOCs
• San Jose State U. Puts MOOC Project on Hold
• Prior learning assessment:
• Western Governors University
• SUNY REAL
• Wrapping
• Mozilla
open badges
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42. Perception of quality
• Outside resources:
• “Not mine”
• “Not peer-reviewed”
• “Not someone I know”
• Personal resources:
• Copyright confusion
• “Not perfect enough to
share”
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43. Startup cost and time
• Finding
• Vetting
• Sequencing
• Remixing
• Filling up gaps
• Assembling in a web format
• Missing ancillaries and homework-as-a-service
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44. Not my problem
• Teaching undervalued vs. research
• Textbook as security blanket
• Cost not usually paid by the
teacher but by the learner
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“As these online course products have
improved, more and more schools have
plugged them into their curricula. The result is
a creeping homogenization of basic classes
throughout many U.S. universities. That’s
raising some uncomfortable questions,
starting with: Why should I pick one school
over another if they offer the exact same
classes? And: Why are universities buying
ready-made frozen meals instead of cooking
up their own educational fare?”
- Kahn, 2014. College in a Box: Textbook giants are now
teaching classes.
