The Road is Open

The Road Ahead is Open
Steve Wheeler
@timbuckteeth
University of Plymouth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hartkopf/62447949/

Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Do these children deserve a good education?
Image: http://www.soil-net.com

Do these children deserve a good education?
Image: Steve Wheeler

For want of a $500 well in their compound, these Gambian children often miss school to walk a 4km round trip several times a day in baking heat to fetch water. Here they are also collecting firewood for cooking.

Over 500 million children are outside of education. 5 billion dollars will get them all educated. - Stephen Heppell

Homeless and wireless
“Given the crises in economics and the environment, and the many challenges we face in modern society, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form”. – Brian Lamb
http://www.frikipix.com

So why do we hoard knowledge?
http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” - Derek Bok
http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“I never teach my students.
I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
- Albert Einstein
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_1947.jpg

Self organised learning
For successful self organised learning the essential components are:
Communication
Reflection
Collaboration
Community
Creative Tools
Amplification

The global context...

There are 5 billion mobile phone connections. 3 times as many mobile phones as computers on the planet.
Source: BBC News 2010

Data consumed in 2010 for mobiles 2.8 exabytes
Data consumed in 2009 1.1 exabytes

Social media use is on the rise with over 550 million users on Facebook and 24 hours of video uploaded every minute on Youtube.
Data consumed in 2010 for mobiles 2.8 exabytes
Data consumed in 2009 1.1 exabytes

Always Connected?
http://i.imwx.com

Always Connected?
Many people at this Obama speech wanted to share their experiences with their friends and family. One man is even live streaming from his laptop.
http://i.imwx.com

Source: BBC Click Programme, February 2011 (2010 statistics)

> 90% have mobile connectivity
> 4.1 billion mobile phone subscribers
1.27 billion fixed line connections
22 countries now have more phones than people. The USA is not one of them... *
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk (2009 statistics)
* cellularnews.com

Source: http://www.penn-olson.com

6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Closed Open
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

Characteristics of e-learning
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Closed Open
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consuming Creating
We have the technology to facilitate the
rest, but do we have the will?
!
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

“How can technology make a person better?
Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.”
- Kevin Kelly
http://www.global-images.net
http://www.global-images.net

Open Learning
University of the ‘second chance’

Open Learning
“The ideal of a global intellectual commons is becoming reality as the licensing of content as Open Educational Resources (OER) makes it possible for students and faculty to find and adapt quality learning materials on almost any subject.”
– Sir John Daniel (2011)
University of the ‘second chance’

Open Educational Resources
“The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes”
- UNESCO (2002)
http://www.wetcanvas.com
http://www.wetcanvas.com

“Wikipedia is different in that it doesn’t try to frame the creation of new entries with commissioned beginnings and fixed endpoints. It is open to anyone to initiate an entry on Wikipedia, and no entry is ever formally closed, since it is also open to anyone to keep editing and altering whatever is already there.”
– Andrew Lih
The Wikipedia Revolution (2009)
cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
http://wikipedia.org

Open Source
Opening the source code enables a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication pathways, and interactive communities. - Wikipedia
http://www.freefoto.com

Open Source

Open Source
A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, blueprints, and documentation available at no cost to the public. - Wikipedia

Open Cola

Free/Open Content...
...describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organisation, firm or individual.
Source: Wikipedia
http://marshalevine.blogspot.com

Copyleft/Creative Commons
Ultimately: Freedom to openly access, use, copy, modify and share content

University of Small States of the Commonwealth
“A collaborative network that allows 32 small countries jointly to create courses as open educational resources that each can then adapt and use to extend and strengthen the offerings of its own tertiary institutions.”
– Sir John Daniel (2011)

“Sharing with each other. This is the precious work we have to do.”
- John Davitt
http://www.old-picture.com/united-states-history-1900s---1930s/pictures/Sharing.jpg

What if they gave a party...
... and none of us came?

Open publishing: A tale of two papers
http://www.fromoldbooks.org

Open publishing: A tale of two papers
Notes:
In 2006/2007 I published 2 papers within a few months of each other. One was in a closed journal, and from submission it took 3 years to appear in print (there was a backlog of papers and ‘reviewer delays’). The other was in an open access journal and took 5 months to appear online.
Long delays militate against good scholarship. Open access journals are now the first choice for many academics – with open peer review and transparent processes, and with academics opening up their work for public critique, open scholarship is in the ascendency.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org

Open scholarship

Open peer review

Open and transparent review audit

Open impact
Closed Journal
3 years
12
Unknown
2.05
Open Journal
5 months
357
84,490
1.93
Time from submission to publication
Number of citations
Number of views
Journal impact factor
Figures as at 10 April,2011

Hacking £ducation
Professional Journals
No Contest!
...or...
Paywall? Free to view?

HACKING £DUCATION
Johnny Lee – Wii hack for IWB
http://www.popsci.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46062480@N00/2413785146- Photo: Adam Melancon

“Knowledge is like love. You can give it all away, but you still get to keep it.”
– Steve Wheeler
http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com
Here’s to openness!

Thank you
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Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: International Licence.
http://steve-wheeler.net

Some end notes (adapted from the Blonde Blog on poverty)
Poverty isn't fun and it’s notfunny. When you're in poverty, you can't even think about havingfun.All your time is spent trying to figure out how you are going to survive another day.
Poverty slows everything down--it's a drag on our world economy. Poverty has been slowing down creativity, and the forward movement of our society for muchtoo long.
Poverty holds the world out of balance. Unbalanced things are not pretty. Poverty is ugly. Even uglier are the multi-national corporations and banks who take more than their fair share to keep much of the world’s population in poverty.

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The Road is Open

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