The Library is Open: Librarians and Information Professionals as Open Practitioners - Josie Fraser (LILAC Keynote Speaker)

The Library is Open
Librarians and Information Professionals as
Open Practitioners
Josie Fraser LILAC 10 April 2017
@josiefraser

LILAC 2017 Josie Fraser @josiefraser
#YEAROFOPEN

Happy Year of Open!
15 years ago:
• UNESCO adopt the term ‘Open Educational Resources’
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched
• The first Creative Commons licenses were released
10 years ago:
• The Cape Town Open Education Declaration was written
5 years ago:
• The first Open Education Week took place
• The first OER World Congress was held, resulting in the Paris OER
Declaration

Justin Grimes
Library Love (2011)
Attribution-ShareAlike
2.0 Generic (CC-BY-SA
2.0)

Mat Fascione
St Barnabas
Library, Leicester
(2007)
shared under a
Creative
Commons
Attribution-
ShareAlike 2.0
(CC-BY-SA)
licence.

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Attribution-Share Alike
(CC BY-SA)
FraserElliot Yes, We’re Open
Attribution-NonCommercial
(CC BY-NC)

Numbers of CC Licenced
By Creative
commons / 555
(2014) CC BY 4.0

“Wikipedia is the greatest open educational
resource of all time”
- Jim Groom, #oer16

Spelling out freedoms and restrictions
“Open licences, including the Creative Commons
licences, provide educators and everyone else
with a clear, simple way to specify how resources
can be used and reused, and how the work
should be credited.”

What does an openly
licensed resource look like?

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International (CC BY 4.0)
The Library is Open: Librarians and Information Professionals as Open Practitioners,
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Content is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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What makes an educational resource open?
Cable Green (2016): “two conditions
that should guide your
determination as to whether or not
an item is considered ‘open’:
• Do you have ‘free and unfettered
access’ to the resource? If you have
to pay to retain or use a resource,
it isn't open.
• Is use of the resource governed by
David Wiley's 5Rs of
Openness permissions?”

The UNESCO 2012 Paris Declaration recommends that
member states should:
Foster awareness and use of OER.
Promote and use OER to widen access to education at all
levels, both formal and non-formal, in a perspective of
lifelong learning, thus contributing to social inclusion,
gender equity and special needs education. Improve both
cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning
outcomes through greater use of OER.

Are open licences enough?

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
International (CC BY-NC) – LBRY mirror
Cf. Harvard, MIT (2015); Stanford (2016)
Accessibility
– degrees of open?

• Freedom to teach without breaking the
law
• Ability to use materials that will tell
stories in an unbiased way
• The same freedoms for all educators in
the EU
• Law that will allow you to embrace
digital opportunities
• Law that recognises museums, libraries
and NGOs as having an educational
function
https://rightcopyright.eu

Digital literacy
JISC Digital capacity framework
Helen Beetham

What about open practice?

“Open educational practices, known as OEP, have a range of
definitions. In the narrowest sense, OEP are "practices which support
the production, use and reuse of high quality OER" (International
Council for Open & Distance Education). A broader view is espoused in
the Capetown Open Education Declaration: "Open education is not
limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open
technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open
sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from
the best ideas of their colleagues. It may also grow to include new
approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning."
- GoOPEN Wiki Vivien Rolfe & Catherine Cronin (2015)

Beetham, H., Falconer, I., McGill,
L. and Littlejohn, A. Open
practices: briefing paper. JISC,
2012
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC
BY-NC)

Wikimedia UK
The British Library
The National Archives
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Wales
The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
The Wellcome Library
Host a wikimedian: you can't afford not to
Melissa Highton, University of Edenborough
Wikimedia UK Education Summit (2017)
3 Ways to use Wikipedia as an Education Tool
Martin Poulter, CILIP (2014)

“open can improve access and equity…but it
can also exacerbate inequality as we know.
Openness is negotiated on an individual
basis. So open education practice, as I have
found in my own work, is always personal, is
always contextual, and its always
continuously negotiated. So we can be
advocates for openness on an social and
institutional level, but still be very cognisant
of the risks we may be asking people to take
when we are advocating for open.”
- Catherine Cronin, OER17 (2017)

"We try to be inclusive but we fail a lot. We
need to design for inclusivity, it doesn't just
happen”
- Maha Bali, #OER17 (2017)

Open practice
• Supporting the use and
production of OER
• Accessibility
• Collaboration
• Development
• Co-production
• Inclusion
• Sustainability
• Privacy
• Public Value
• Flexibility
• Customisation/personalisation/relevance
• Quality
• Legal

Open keynote
Please tweet using #lilac17op
or head over to http://goo.gl/dr19a8
Question:
In what way(s) do you consider your practice, as a
librarian or information professional, open?

Some questions:
• Do staff & students understand their own position?
• Do staff & students know about OER?
• Does the organisation have a policy regarding OER/open
licencing?
• Do staff & students understand how to find, evaluate,
acknowledge and reuse OER?
• Do staff and the organisation consider open practice in
relation to provision & production?

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NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
Daniel Solis Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like
Cutting Hospitals in a Plague (2010) Attribution 2.0
(CC BY)

Open education is the philosophy of ensuring equity and quality of
access to education to all, regardless of gender, economic means,
location, disability, age, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or religion
Open practice is the act of creating and supporting learning
experiences and resources that acknowledge contexts of discrimination
and inequality
Open practice is the enactment of equitable, ethical, and sustainable
learning experiences and resources

Thank you!
@josiefraser

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