A Vision for Small(er) Institutions in open education
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Keynote at ConnectNY. Smaller institutions have been slow to join the open education movement yet they offer unique conditions to engage faculty and students through open pedagogy. This talk outlines the important role small(er) institutions can play in open education. Licensed CC BY.
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A Vision for Small(er) Institutions in open education
- 1. Still to be filled – a vision for small(er) institutions in open education Sarah Faye Cohen ConnectNY April 18 2019
- 6. Course Reserves Students looking for textbooks Faculty meeting that need The library cultivating relationships with faculty and students through reserves Long lines Too few copies Too many copies for the library’s space Desk ”traffic patterns”
- 9. “There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
- 10. “There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
- 11. “There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
- 12. What is open education and why are we talking about it?
- 13. What is open education and why are we talking about it?
- 15. open = free + permissions
- 16. open = free + permissions
- 18. copy mix share keep edit use open = free + permissions
- 20. Defining Open Educational Resources Hewlett Foundation Definition: “OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.”
- 25. What is open education and why are we talking about it?
- 28. http://www.sheeo.org Higher Education Funding - New York
- 29. Is cost relevant at private institutions?
- 31. Pace University All Undergraduate Students https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Pace+University&s=all&id=194310#finaid
- 33. The average borrower owes more than $28,650 in student loans, class of 2017. New York - $30,931 https://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data#overlay=posd/state_data/2018/ny https://ticas.org/sites/default/files/pub_files/student_debt_and_the_class_of_2017_nr.pdf
- 36. What does this mean for our students?
- 42. What does this mean for our students?
- 46. 2012 2016 63.6% 66.5% Not purchase the required textbook 49.2% 47.6% Take fewer courses 45.1% 45.5% Not register for a specific course 33.9% 37.6% Earn a poor grade 26.7% 26.1% Drop a course 17.0% 19.8% Fail a course In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to: http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf https://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2016_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
- 48. What impression does this make?
- 50. Does this matter at small(er) schools?
- 51. Does this matter at small(er) schools? For reasons that go beyond cost.
- 53. Top 10 Reasons You get small classes All the teaching is done by professors. Your professors will be more committed to teaching. Your work will be evaluated more carefully. You'll have a chance to write more papers. You'll have more opportunity for one-on-one contact with your professor. You'll have more freedom in the curriculum. You'll have more opportunities to collaborate with a professor. You'll face less bureaucracy. You get the feeling that you count.
- 55. “ ” Open education is about increasing student achievement, inspiring passion among faculty, and building better connections between students and the materials that they use to meet their educational goals. - Quill West
- 56. Open education has incredible potential.
- 58. What would happen if small(er) schools took a leading role in open education?
- 59. What if students created the content for their education?
- 60. What does this mean for our students?
- 61. Our students could start making the textbooks. You get small classes All the teaching is done by professors. Your professors will be more committed to teaching. Your work will be evaluated more carefully. You'll have a chance to write more papers. You'll have more opportunity for one-on-one contact with your professor. You'll have more freedom in the curriculum. You'll have more opportunities to collaborate with a professor. You'll face less bureaucracy. You get the feeling that you count.
- 62. Our students could start making the textbooks. You get small classes All the teaching is done by professors. Your professors will be more committed to teaching. Your work will be evaluated more carefully. You'll have a chance to write more papers. You'll have more opportunity for one-on-one contact with your professor. You'll have more freedom in the curriculum. You'll have more opportunities to collaborate with a professor. You'll face less bureaucracy. You get the feeling that you count.
- 63. Our students become Contributors and authors Aware and capable of diversifying and elevating other voices in academia Engaged in the academic enterprise Prepared for graduate school through a real peer review process More collaborative Active participants in their education
- 64. “Open Pedagogy” or “OER Enabled Pedagogy”
- 68. STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: MATTHEW MOORE THE OPEN ANTHOLOGY OF EARLIER AMERICAN LITERATURE, 2ND EDITION
- 70. “My small class of 35 students wrote 1400 questions in the span of 10 weeks. ” Students creating the quiz bank
- 77. Ithaka S+R Publishes Results of US Faculty Survey, 2018 There is substantial interest in use of open educational resources for instructional practices, particularly from younger faculty members. About six in ten respondents are very interested in using open educational resources (OER), and roughly half strongly agreed that they would like to adopt new instructional approaches with OER.
- 79. Open education is about community.
- 81. Affordability • Improve access to content • Increase engagement • Improve retention Academic Freedom • Pedagogical innovation • Faculty expertise • Open educational practices Social Justice • Diversifying and amplifying voices • Acknowledging and addressing disparities Open education addresses:
- 85. We attract and retain students.
- 86. Our students could start making the textbooks. You get small classes All the teaching is done by professors. Your professors will be more committed to teaching. Your work will be evaluated more carefully. You'll have a chance to write more papers. You'll have more opportunity for one-on-one contact with your professor. You'll have more freedom in the curriculum. You'll have more opportunities to collaborate with a professor. You'll face less bureaucracy. You get the feeling that you count.
- 87. We all count.
- 90. Together, we can: Offer students agency in their own education Create new materials Catalyze educational innovation Support great teaching Enhance student learning Facilitate great learning experiences Develop partnerships Transform higher education