The document discusses open educational resources and open content. It begins by outlining limitations to open content and then provides a five step process for creating open content: 1) identify open content, 2) assess the value of information, 3) create open content, 4) share open content with peers, and 5) preserve open content. It then discusses various tools and platforms for creating, sharing, and preserving open content. The document concludes by emphasizing that creating open content is an iterative process and provides additional advice.

1. Elizabeth Brown
Scholarly Communications and Library Grants Officer
Binghamton University Libraries
New Concepts in teaching and learning: E-texts, open educational
resources and more
November 4, 2011

2. Limitations to making content open
Michelle Hawkins-Thiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkins-thiel/2515183032/
Sarah Cool: http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/05/13/writing-project-wrap-up/finding-the-good-ones-courtesy-sarah-cool-at-flickrs-creative-commons/

3. The Goal
Jonathan Nerdtrek: http://nerdtrek.com/iron-man-movie-computer/

4. Five Steps
Identify
Preserve Assess
Share Create

5. The Five Steps Explained
1. Identify open content
2. Assess the value of the information
3. Create open content
4. Share open content with peers
5. Preserve open content on the web and locally

6. All the Opens
 Dorothea Salo, Battle of the Opens, Book of Trogool,
March 15, 2010
 Open Source
 Open Standards
 Open Access
 Open Educational Resources
 Open (Research) Data
 Open (Governmental) Data
 Open Notebook Science

7. Open is a movement
#occupyknowledge
#occupyscholcomm
#oaweek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg

8. 1. Identify Open Content
 Journals
 Data/Journal Article Manuscripts
 Citizen Science/Open Research
 Blogs and Social Media
 Books
 Photos/Images/Multimedia

9. Open Access Journal Collections
 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
 Highwire Press
 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 BioMedCentral
 PubMedCentral
 J-Stage
 Royal Society
 JSTOR
 Hindawi

10. Open Research, Government Data
 OAD Wiki – Data Repositories
 Data.gov

11. Repositories
•OAD Wiki – Disciplinary Repositories
•Nature Precedings

12. Citizen Science, Open Research
 Citizens for Science
 Scientific American Citizen Science
 Open Folklore
 Open Notebook Science Challenge

13. Blogs
 Technorati Top 100, Technorati, updated daily.
 Science Blogs
 Scientopia
 Scientific American Blogs
 Nature Blog Network
 The Guardian Blogposts
 New York Times Blogs

14. Public Domain Books
 Rebecca Hedreen, Open Access Books, Southern
Connecticut State University, 2007.
 Freely Available Ebook Collections, Binghamton
University Libraries, October 26, 2011.

15. Photos/Images/Multimedia
 Jean-Baptiste Jung, 50 Sites to find free stock images, Cats
Who Code, January 22, 2009

16. 2. Assess
 Alternative Metrics
 Social Media Data, Analysis
 Copyright – can I use it?
 Assessment Tools

17. Alternative Metrics
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

18. Alternative Metrics: Is it Junk?
 It depends…
 Citation metrics are evolving:
 Impact Factor (Thomson), 1960’s
 h-index (Hirsch, UC San Diego), 2005
 Eigenfactor, 2009
 Eigenfactor™ Score (EF)
 Article Influence™ Score (AI)
 PLOS article level metrics, 2009
 Varies by discipline
 Change over time

19. Social Media Data

20. Copyright Law and Creative Commons
 Copyright Advisory Network
 Creative Commons
 Copyright Alliance

21. Assessment Tools

22. 3. Create open content- Wikis, editors

23. Create Open Content: VoIP, IM
 VoIP: Voice over IP
 Instant Messaging/Chat:
 Comparison of Instant Messaging Clients,
Wikipedia, October 21, 2011

24. Creating Open Content – Cloud
Storage

25. Creating Open Content - Blogs

26. Organizing your online links
Organizing online links (bookmarks)
 Matt McGhee, 10 Alternatives to Delicious.com
Bookmarking, Search Engine Land, December 16, 2010
Organizing article references
 Martin Fenner, Reference Manager Overview
(version 2.4), Gobbledygook, September 19, 2010.

27. 4. Share Open Content
 Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites |
October 2011, eBiz/MBA, October 20 ,2011.

28. Clean Cut Media: http://www.cleancutmedia.com/internet/growth-of-social-media-statistics-video-
socialnomics

29. 5. Preserve
 Self-publishing
 Cloud Storage
 Campus data storage
 Library digital repository
 Think REDUNANCY

30. Making, Using Open Content requires
planning
 What tools are available?
 What do I need to create myself?
 How much time do I have?
 Is this enriching the classroom experience/course?

31. What is your final product?
 Portfolio
 E-textbook
 Curriculum Guide
 Tutorial
 Peer-Reviewed article, monograph
 Catalyst for future projects
 Build on content

32. Open is an iterative process
 Build content from one semester to the next
 Create a continuously evolving organism
 Explore concepts more deeply

33. Additional Advice
 Consider starting small
 Keep student abilities in mind
 Some areas easier to incorporate open content
 Technology evolves quickly!
 Colleagues may need data to be convinced of
success.

34. Sources
 Jason Fitzpatrick, Five Best Blogging Platforms, Lifehacker, June 10,
2010.
 Alex Wilhelm, The Five Best Blogging Platforms you haven’t heard
of, The Next Web, September 7, 2011.
 Mark Sample, Create Your Own E-Book with Open-Source Sigil,
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2011.
 London School of Economics and Political Science Impact of Social
Sciences, Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university
research, teaching, and impact activities, September 29, 2011.
 Guy Kawasaki, Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn, How to Change the
World, January 4, 2007.
 Lauren Dugan, 5 Twitter metrics beyond follow count, March 10,
2011.
 Edudemic, The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen by You,
November 2, 2011.

35. Case Studies
 Bodie, Matthew T. , Open Access in Law Teaching: A New
Approach to Legal Education, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 885
(2006)
 Campbell AM (2004) Open Access: A PLoS for Education. PLoS
Biol 2(5): e145. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020145
 Michael Verhaart, Stephanie Day, Joyce Seitzinger, Using Open
Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth
it?, 2011
 K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks, An Introduction to
the R Programming Environment, 2008.
 Hsinchun Chen; Xin Li; Chau, M.; Yi-Jen Ho; Chunju Tseng; ,
"Using Open Web APIs in Teaching Web Mining," Education,
IEEE Transactions on , vol.52, no.4, pp.482-490, Nov. 2009
doi: 10.1109/TE.2008.930509

36. More Case Studies
 MS Mustafa, J Montgomery, HR Atta, OPEN ACCESS: A
novel educational tool for teaching ocular ultrasound,
Clinical Opthamology, 21 June 2011.
 Harry E. Pence and Barbara Losoff, Going beyond the
textbook: The need to integrate open access primary
literature into the Chemistry curriculum, Chem Cent J.
2011; 5: 18, published online 2011 April 6.
doi:10.1186/1752-153X-5-18
 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom,
TeachingDegrees.org, 2009.
 An Open Access toolkit to support bibliometrics training
and awareness, NDLR, Ireland, 2010-2011.

37. Thank You / Credits
 Title image: Poppy Thomas-Hill
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkpoppyimages/6254575807/in/pool-809956@N25/)
 Presentation Link: http://www.slideshare.net/ebrown