What sorts of open approaches are universities taking and how can they be characterized? A short slideset to introduce a panel session at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2012 . By Amber Thomas, JISC www.jisc.ac.uk

1. openness in universities
Amber Thomas
Eduwiki Conference 5th Sep 2012
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@ambrouk

2. openness: the sunlight effect
“Freedom of information legislation comprises laws
that guarantee access to data held by the state”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_laws
opening up access to information, data and
processes floods sunlight into areas that were
previously hidden from public view, and in doing
so it also nurtures growth

3. dimensions
of openness
Tim Berners Lee et al
http://5stardata.info/
1 star: make your stuff available on the Web (whatever
format) under an open license
2 stars: make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel
instead of image scan of a table)
3 stars: use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead
of Excel)
4 stars: use URIs to identify things, so that people can
point at your stuff
5 stars: link your data to other data to provide context

4. dimensions
of openness
Peter Reed, MMU
http://scieng-
elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/v
isualising-openness.html

5. dimensions
of openness
Amber Thomas, JISC
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6. forms of openness in universities
open ...
data
standards
source
innovation
scholarship
access
content
education
... in universities

7. £ Open Data
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Making data available for public access and reuse
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8. £ Open Standards
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9. £ Open Source
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Open can mean process and/or product
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Learning management systems
Content management systems dpress
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Enterprise systems
even Library Management Systems

10. £ Open Innovation
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usually more about the process than the
product OR the product is free
it’s about being tactically liberal with IP
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11. £ Open Scholarship
LT
It’s about collaborative processes and
sometimes reusable outputs. Sometimes
important to be public, sometimes not.
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m etr tw
alt in universities:
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ng collaboration humanities
peer review peer ev
a luation
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e-sc data sharing

12. £ Open Access
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Opening up research papers to be free to
researchers and to the public
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Repor a
ch i pedi
Fin in universities: wik
JISC
COR
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a l ci
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new forms of open publication n
rd
Ha rva nt repositories of research outputs
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13. £ Open Content
LT
in education context, often called open
educational resources r
U o e
itune s #uk
OpenLearn in universities: Khan ac
a de m y
using web resources licensed for reuse
J or u
m teachers sharing their resources
course materials wikipe
dia
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M I T OC

14. £ Open Education
LT
public access to content and learning
MIT
opportunities
x EdX
open ba
d ge s
OERu in universities:
free online learning
OU MOOC phonar
peer learning
new models of accreditation Stanfor
s d AI
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15. summary: openness in universities
openness in universities £
characteristics of
comes in many flavours
data
openness vary
LT
standards
source Universities are changing
innovation
scholarship Opening up access to information,
access data and processes floods sunlight
content into areas that were previously
education hidden from public view, and in
doing so it also nurtures growth.