Opening up teaching and learning: Libraries as natural partners in Open Education

CONUL Teaching & Learning Annual Seminar 2019
7 November 2019
Vanessa Proudman, Director, SPARC Europe
Opening up teaching and learning
Libraries as natural partners in
Open Education

CONUL 2019, Opening Up Teaching and Learning15-11-2019
Why OE matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNnxPcY49Q

Open Education terms
Open Education
– Open Educational Policy
– Open Educational Practices
– Open Educational Resources

SPARC Definition of Open Education
Open Education encompasses resources, tools
and practices that are free of legal, financial
and technical barriers and can be fully used,
shared and adapted in the digital environment.
Open Education maximizes the power of the
Internet to make education more affordable,
accessible and effective.
https://sparcopen.org/open-education/

The 5 R’s of Open, Wiley, 2014
1. RETAIN - the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content.
2. 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).
3. REVISE - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content
itself (e.g., translate the content into another language).
4. 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).
5. 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) .

Why open up education?
Contribute to the Open agenda
Contribute to international goals
Increased visibility of the institution
– Showcasing research, education
– Showcasing collections
Increase the quality of education
– Teacher capacity-building and professionalisation
– Increase student satisfaction
– Help achieve better results
– Contribute to life-long learning goals
Increase equitable access to knowledge: Education for all
Cost-savings

Advancing the Open Agenda
– Open Access to
• Research publications
• Research data
• Educational resources
• Open standards
• Open software
• And more
"Intricate" by Darcie is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
= A m o r e o p e n u n I v e r s I t y
Recalling the Wheeler declaration,
Berkeley, CA, 2008:
https://bit.ly/31KJ7yh

Why libraries are natural partners
for change in OE: Their roles
Often seen as a trusted partner in institution
Highly service-oriented
Facilitate access to knowledge
Roles changing from buyer to
creator, curator, publisher,
legal adviser to knowledge disseminator, etc.
Provide leadership in Open Science
Some already provide e-learning support
Increasing collaborating with other depts

Why libraries are natural partners
for change in OE: Applicable activities
Collection management
Information discovery: md, repositories, etc
Quality assurance
Copyright and open licensing
Challenging publishing business models
Advocacy
Information / research literacy training
Makerspaces

Why should they meet?
OA Publications OA Research Data Open Education
Advocacy xxx xxx xxx
Skills development x xx xx / xxx
Open licensing xx xx xxx
Rewards and
incentives
xxx xxx xxx
Quality
management
xx xx xx / xxx
Sustainability xxx xxx xxx
New business
models
xx / xxx xx xxx
Co-creation x xx xxx

Leadership in OE
Leadership in OE

The Cape Town Declaration, 2008
A coalition of educators, foundations, and
internet pioneers
urged governments and publishers to
make publicly-funded educational materials
available freely over the internet
Over 2k signatories
https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration

1. Educators and learners: actively participate in OE movement,
e.g. creating, using, adapting and improving OER; embracing
edu practices. Integral to education, supported / rewarded.
2. Open educational resources: call on educators, authors,
publishers, institutions to release resources openly. freely
shared through open licences. both for use and editing. Also
for those with disabilities and with no access to the Internet.
3. Open education policy: govts, school boards, colleges and
universities should make open education a high priority.
Ideally, taxpayer-funded educational resources should be
open educational resources. Accreditation & adoption
processes. Repositories should include & highlight OERs.

1. Connecting Open
2. Empowering the next
generation
3. Connecting with other Open
Movements
4. Open Education for
development
5. Open pedagogy
6. Thinking outside the institution
7. Data and analytics
8. Beyond the textbook
9. Opening up publicly funded
resources
10. Copyright for education
https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/

Open Government Partnership, 2011
Accountable, responsive, inclusive govt.
79 countries with action plans.
55 OGP partners 200 commitments to Education
Most popular commitment focus on OER, IT tools
and platforms that make teaching materials
publicly available

UN Sustainable Development Goals
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
Goal 4: Quality Education Obtaining a quality education is the
foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to
improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip
locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the
world’s greatest problems.
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities: large disparities remain regarding
access to health and education services and other assets
Goal 9: Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure: crucial to
achieving sustainable development and empowering communities in
many countries

UNESCO guidelines
Invest in production, adaptation & use of OER
Bring them into mainstream HEd
Improve quality and reduce costs

Ljubljana Action Plan, 2018
https://www.oercongress.org/oer-roadmap/

UNESCO OER Recommendation 2019
Guidance for national governments on
OER policies and practices asking
countries to report on efforts and progress
Adopted May 2019, Intergovt Expert Meeting
Circulated to all Member States
To be submitted to the 40th General
Conference Nov 2019 for
consideration and adoption

IFLA Briefing on OER, 2019

OPENEDUCATIONTIMELINE
sparcopen.org
2009 -2019
SPARC NA slides, N Allen, Oct 2019

Nicole Allen, Steven Bell, and Marilyn
Billings call on academic librarians to
unite and form a national movement to
promote the widespread adoption of OER
Their goal was to take back control of
learning materials from commercial
publishers returning it to educators.

connect.sparcopen.org

sparcopen.org/leadership-program

Open Education Leadership Program
Module 1: What is Open Education?
Module 2: Open Education on Campus
Module 3: Discovering and Curating OER
Module 4: Copyright & Open Licensing
Module 5: Adapting & Publishing OER
Module 6: Open Pedagogy & Researching Impact
Module 7: Open Education Advocacy & Institutional
Change
Module 8: Open Education Project Planning &
Management
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/open-
education-leadership-program/

OER State Policy Playbook
ID stakeholders
Define OER carefully
Recommendations, e.g.
– establish a grant progamme
– mark OER in course schedules
– create a task force or council
– issue a savings challenge
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oer-state-policy-playbook/

High-level pointers for OER policy
discussions

• Would provide permanent authorisation for an open
textbook grant programme
• Would ensure that any open textbooks or educational
materials created using program funds will be freely
and easily accessible to the public
• Would direct institutions of higher education to
include information about costs
• Requires the Government Accountability Office to
report to Congress with an update on the price trends
of college textbooks

Europe
Europe

European Commission leadership
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/open-education

Policy context in Europe
“Opening up Education” Communication by
the European Commission (2013)
OpenEdu project by the European
Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Key reports:
– Going Open: Policy Recommendations on
Open Education in Europe
– Policy Approaches to Open Education

European Commission policy-making
Opening up education.
Innovative teaching and learning for all through
new technologies and OER. Report.
More open learning environments
Proposed actions:
– Helping learning institutions, teachers, and learners to acquire
digital skills and learning methods
– Supporting development and availability of OER
– Connecting classrooms & deploying dig services & content
– Mobilizing all stakeholders to change the role of digital tech at
education institutions
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/cd97428e-ab60-4e5f-b9c2-

Policy approaches to Open Education,
JRC Report, 2017 – 4 types
1. Policies focusing specifically on
opening up education through
the promotion of OER and OEP
2. Policies relating to general ICT
for learning with some open
education component
3. Comprehensive strategic
educational policies with some
open education component
4. Polices built up as National
Open Government Plans with
some open education
component
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/policy-approaches-open-education-case-studies-28-eu-
member-states-openedu-policies
Irish HEd Authority innovation, quality assurance and to provide funding
Professional development important
Relating to EU: focus “aiming at achieving teaching and learning excellence, [and]
producing good practices for academic development that can be shared
internationally at a European level”.

Open Education and a changing context
The Open Agenda progressively becoming the
norm: policy and practise
Meeting sustainable development goals
Meeting Open Government Partnership goals
The need to demonstrate excellence & impact
Increasing mobility amongst staff
Institutional asset management
Efficiency
Cost-saving

Open Science Policy
Competitiveness Council, 2016
Amsterdam Call for Action on OS, 2016
National policy: NL, N, FR, IRL …
Plan S and cOAlition S, Sept 2018
Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe
Open Data Directive / PSI, 2019
Increase in institutional policies.
Europe: 548 institutional in Europe
Funder policies: EC, Wellcome, national

National
Open
Research
Forum
National Framework
launched by Minister
Halligan in July 2019 and
endorsed by all Irish
research funding agencies,
the Higher Education
Authority, the Department
of Business, Enterprise &
Innovation and many other
agencies & institutions.
http://norf-ireland.net/wp-
content/uploads/2019/07/
NORF_Framework_10_July_
2019-2.pdf
National Action Plan
outlined for 2019-2020.
• Open Access to Publications
• FAIR Data Management
• Infrastructure
• Rewards and Incentives
• Skills and Training Ref: N. Brennan, National Forum
Digital learning Policies,
Oct 2019

Ref: N. Brennan, National Forum
Digital learning Policies,
Oct 2019

ROARMAP, 2019
548 in Europe

Open Science Policy
Competitiveness Council, 2016
Amsterdam Call for Action on OS, 2016
National policy: NL, N, FR, IRL …
Plan S and cOAlition S, Sept 2018
Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe
Open data Directive / PSI, 2019
Increases in institutional policies.
Europe: 548 institutional in Europe
Funder policies: EC, Wellcome, national

SPARC Europe study in Spring 2019:
37 with an OA policy: 30 mandates
24 no OA policy; 50% developing one
42 no research data
policy, 13 developing one
30
7
24
No
mandate
Mandate
Funder OA and OS policies in Europe
Gdansk, 8 Oct 2019
No
policy

http://scieur.org/guidance-rdmps.

European Open Education Librarians

Members to date
10 European countries & international orgs
– Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, UK
– IFLA, International Baccalaureate Organization,
SPARC, SPARC Europe
Policy makers / senior library management
Open Science & Open Ed advocates
Practitioners, incl. pedagogues
Researchers

Libraries supporting OE
Connecting OER with OS
From buyer to disseminator
– Content curation, eg publ existing material OER,
© & licensing support, co-creation
Policy-making: Connecting OS with OE policy
Info discovery
– Repositories; linking them with LMS, disc system
– Metadata standards
– Linked repositories
Info literacy and OER

Choosing the direction
1. Roles &
responsibilities
of libraries
2. Finance
3. Advocacy
4. Policy
5. Stakeholder
management /
engagement
6. Content curation
7. OER discovery
8. Quality management
9. Rewards and
incentives
10. Training
11. Technical support
12. Knowledge exchange

A range of possible goals
Bridge the gap between Open Science and Open
Education
Build capacity on Open Education amongst
European librarians
Develop supportive OE policy in Europe
Increase the access to and reuse of educational
resources whilst considering sustainability
Increase the creation of and adoption of more OERs
in Europe

What we don’t yet know
Which academic HEd libraries in Europe are
offering Open Education services?
Which libraries / academic institutions in
Europe have developed an OE policy?
What good practise collaborations are going
on between libraries and other depts/
faculties in Open Education?
What good synergies exist between Open
Science and Open Education?

SPARC Europe Survey
Online survey to launch in November 2019

OE Global event
What can Open Education learn from Open
Access and Open Science?
World Café
Milan, 27 November 2019
You’re invited
https://conference.oeconsortium.org/2019/

Europe
Examples from
our European Network

OER World Map
www.oerworldmap.org

Open Education Policy Forum 2019
https://oerpolicy.eu/oe-policy-forum/
12 fellows will be
developing 10 different
policy projects
At different stages of
development

Utrecht University Library Process
Subject specialist
& academic meet
Subject specialist
picks up OE question
Subject specialist
contacts OE librarian
Subject specialist,
OE librarian
& academic meet
Academic’s OE question
is answered &
knowledge base of
subject specialist increased
Adapted from D. Van Loon,
UU, Oct 2019

UU
figshare
repository
for OER
www.uu.figshare.com

MDX CAT, SPain
https://www.mdx.cat/

Libguides OER
Over 2,100 on OERhttps://community.libguides.com/

OER training, France
https://zenodo.org/communities/adbu_competencesinformationnelles/?page=1&size=20
Proposed by www.adbu.fr:
Association of Directors and Senior Staff of
University Libraries and Documentation

Copyright
https://open.ed.ac.uk/

Data Management MOOC

REBUIN OE website
Call for Open Course Ware (OCW) Projects for the publication of free access
teaching content (ULL).
Promotes the development and incorporation of OE content in open format taught in
degree curricula
Teaching material teaching network (Polytechnic University of Valencia):
The Action Plan of the Teaching Network aims to favour the use of ICT in teaching
practice.
Call for financial aid to prepare free teaching materials: The Jaume I University
announces an annual financial grant programme for the development of quality teaching
materials and publication OA. Open courses are disseminated through the institutional
repository.
Video training webinars (UNIA): Virtual seminars (webinars) for teacher training,
promoted by the Innovation Area of the UNIA (International University of Andalusia)
available on video with Creative Commons licenses.
Procomún. Open Educational Resources Network. Space for education and learning,
mainly by the teaching community and students, but also by the general public. The
educational community can find and create structured teaching material, classified in a
standardized way (LOM-ES), prepared for download and for direct use by teachers and
students
https://www.rebiun.org/acceso-abierto/semana-de-educacion-abierta

REBIUN Report to promote OER in
universities
Mandate or recommend to publish OER in
institutional repositories
Ensure the interoperability
between platforms
Create a specific OER policy
Add incentives in policies and
assessment processes

Quality modelling for OER, NL
https://openleermaterialen.surf.nl/kwaliteit/

Anatomy Tool, NL
https://anatomytool.org/about

THE FUTURE

The future
Advocating for OE in our institutions
– Maximising the re-use of our assets
Growing OE in European libraries
Libraries bridging the gap between OS & OE
Developing and creating OE policy in Europe
More rewards and incentives for teaching
Providing evidence of more
meaningful teaching and learning
through OE

The future
Increased open licensing of materials
Increased OE textbook, OE publishing:
Free access aligned with our values
FAIR Open Education
OE management planning
Creating shared OE infrastructure
Finding sustainable funding models for OE
Make this a routine part of work
More capacity building in OER

5 major
publishers hold
nearly 90% of
the market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
NEAR-MONOPOLY

OPEN
FREE + PERMISSION
Retain
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
5Rs
Slides with thanks to N. Allen, SPARC NA, Oct 2019

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/04/13/top-hat-makes-access-oer-free

https://openstax.org/partners
Peer-reviewed, openly licensed, 100% free

FAIR

DMP Online
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
1. Data Types, Formats, Standards and Capture
Methods
2. Ethics and Intellectual Property
3. Access, Data Sharing and Reuse
4. Short-Term Storage and Data Management
5. Deposit and Long-Term Preservation
6. Resourcing

The future
Increased OE textbook, OE publishing:
Free access aligned with our values
FAIR Open Education
OE management planning
Creating shared OE infrastructure
Finding sustainable funding models for OE
Make this a routine part of work
More capacity building in OER

A SCOSS for Open Education?
Global Sustainability Coalition
for Open Science Services
www.scoss.org
More than 1.5m euro raised worldwide for 2
infrastructures
3 more to be recommended this year

Invest In Open Infrastructure
for OE?
Our goal is to obtain stable and consistent funding
from across the globe to sustain open science
infrastructure
https://investinopen.org/

THANK YOU, Any questions?
Please join the European Network:
oer@sparceurope.org
Please become a
member
to enable us to do
more in this area
https://sparceurope.org/membership/
join-sparc-europe/

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