This is a keynote presentation about building community. Given for Open Education Week Keynote at the University of Guelph 2019. A Google Doc version can be downloaded here. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xua-VkkUEjPRbjNFqlAdGr1kbvIqxM0trjbkVpTrKMc/edit?usp=sharing

1. Close Encounters of
the Open Kind
University of Guelph
Open Education Week 2019
Arthur Gill Green
@greengeographer

2. In the beginning…

14. A Generational Crisis
Higher Education is broken. It’s becoming less
accessible. That impacts the most economically
vulnerable the most.
We are confronted by the world’s greatest, free
misinformation machine.

15. Teaching is a Political Act
Knowledge access and creation is never neutral.
Untangling the multiple literacies needed to be
informed citizens in the digital age is more challenging
than maybe any other point in human history.
Where can we turn for help?

16. Three Encounters Leading to
Open

18. A close encounter of the first kind is sighting of a UFO;
The second kind is physical evidence to prove existence of
UFOs;
And the third kind is actual contact with alien life forms.

19. A close encounter of the first kind is sighting of an OER;
The second kind is physical evidence to prove existence of
OERs;
And the third kind is actual contact with Open Education life
forms.

23. Open Education and OERs
In order to broaden access to learning
opportunities and eliminate barriers to
learning, we develop and adopt OERs…
• Retain
• Reuse
• Revise
• Remix
• Redistribute

25. "Fin, aren't you afraid people are going to steal your food?"
And I'm like, "Hell no, I ain't afraid they're gonna steal it.
That's why it's on the street. That's the whole idea. I want
them to take it, but at the same time, I want them to take
back their health."

29. Open Education = Collaborative Community

30. The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed.
The opposite of open is ‘broken.’
– John Wilbanks

31. The Potential

34. Kids that grow kale, eat kale.
– Ron Finley
Kids that write, edit, or illustrate books – read books.

35. Access to Agency
Consumer to Creator
Banking to Interacting
Creating Community
Motivation
Inspiration
Evolution > Revolution

36. Open (Resources and
Approaches)
Not Open (Resources &
Approaches)
Effective Learning
Design
Learning-centered design,
supported by vast affordances
of the internet. Authentic
learning and public scholarship.
Work on mapping project,
analyze, contribute results to
OSM. Create scientific education
materials. Conduct research
using open science principles.
Great learning design, using
“closed” resources, and
conducted in “closed” spaces.
Service learning, reflection
handed in to only the instructor.
Not Effective
Learning Design
Using OER, but under-utilizing
the potential of open. Watch an
open education resource video
on coral reefs, write a paper for
the instructor.
Instructor-centered methods,
disposable assignments in a
closed environment. Multiple
choice exam based on lectures.
Disposable assignments?

37. Ways to get started

43. The average cost per textbook for an
Associate Degree in British Columbia is:
$112.55CAD
$122.29-102.81 (95% confidence interval)

47. Stanley Park Virtual Reality Experience
http://eml.ubc.ca/projects/geography-vr/
● Students and faculty from Geography,
Computer Science, Media Studies.
● Local VR experts MetanautVR.
● UBCStudios and eventually the Emerging
Media Lab.

48. https://youtu.be/jqWV10pOJm8

55. A Recipe for a Successful Institutional Open
Education Initiative (Jhangiani 2019)

57. Open Education Movement
• Takes all kind of people – like you!
• Strong organization, great organizers – like you!
• Break through periods are characterized by
upheaval, disrupting entrenched interests – like
now!
• Moral relativism (ethical fog), it takes sea change
to overcome what is accepted, what is "not
possible“ – it is possible!
• Words matter. Education access is a human right
and we can co-create knowledge – Say YES!

58. Reach out and talk to the community of
people. You are not alone.

59. Thank You!
Some slides in this presentation adapted from
Rajiv Jhangiani, Robin DeRosa, and Clint
Lalonde under a CC BY 4.0 license.
All slides under a CC BY 4.0 license,
Arthur Gill Green