Slides and link to a workshop I did for eCampus Alberta on open education

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eCampus Alberta Operational Retreat
bit.ly/ecaretreat

2. “…openness is the sole means by which
education is effected. If a teacher is not
sharing what he or she knows, there is no
education happening.
In fact, those educators who share the
most thoroughly of themselves with the
greatest proportion of their students are
the ones we deem successful.
In other words, is the teacher a successful
sharer? If so, then the teacher is a
successful educator. If attempts at sharing
fail, then the teacher is a poor educator.
Education is sharing.
Education is about being open.”
Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation, David Wiley, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 14–20

3. What is Open Education?
• Open Access: Publishing research in open journals.
• Open Data: Releasing datasets for reuse by others.
• Open Source Software: Using, sharing and collaboratively
creating software.
• Open Admissions: Flexible admission policies to
institutions or courses.
• Open Scholarship: Sharing of teaching and research
practices.
• Open Educational Resources (OER): Sharing and reuse of
teaching and learning materials including courses (open
courseware) and textbooks (open textbooks).
• Open Pedagogy: What teaching and learning practices
does “open” enable?

4. Open Access
“As a society, we
are paying for
science,
and then we’re
paying to read
about it.”

5. Open Data
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/open-data-waterloo-fosters-student-innovation

6. Open Source Software

7. Open Admissions

8. Day of the MOOC by Michael Branson Smith used under Creative Commons license

9. Open Scholarship

10. Open Educational Resources
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”
Source: UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-
resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

11. Digital Enables

12. Cost to copy a 250 page book
Copy by hand $1000
Copy by print on demand (color) $24.50
Copy by print on demand (B&W) $7.60
Copy by computer $0.00084
Cost to distribute a 250 page book
Distribute by mail $5.20
Distribute via internet $0.00072

13. Copyright Restricts

14. All Rights Reserved

15. Some Rights Reserved
Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

16. Open Pedagogy
5.5 million view per month. The most visited chemistry website in the world.
Delmar Larsen now offers extra credit to students who submit
entries. He assigns a rating system to new articles based on the
author's expertise and experience, with articles moving up as they
are edited and vetted.
Sources: ChemWiki takes on costly textbooks UC Davis News, October 2013
UCD Hyperlink Newsletter October 2014

18. Activity: Barriers
On a sticky note, write down a barrier or fear that you may
have, or may have heard expressed to you, about open
education.

19. Activity: Build an OER
Break into small groups (3-4), and, using the resources you will see, collaboratively create a
new piece of instructional content built with openly licensed resources that you find and
copy from the internet. You may want to work with people who have a similar discipline
background as you.
Some ideas:
• If you have discipline specific knowledge or are classroom faculty, design a short lesson on
a topic that you teach using OER’s.
• Search for OER’s on using OER’s and, using thse, build a primer for faculty on how to use
OER’s.
• Create a handout for faculty on how to write learning objectives using OER.
• Remix this workshop! Build a short presentation on OER’s with the materials I have openly
licensed today.
Search and find images, text and multimedia content from the resources you have seen
today.
Be sure to attribute the resources you use correctly within the document, and decide on a
license to released your newly created object with that is compatible with all the licenses in
your document.

20. 5R’s & Creative Commons
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”

21. 5R’s
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license

22. Reusability Paradox
The more context
a learning object
has, the more (and
the more easily) a
learner can learn
from it.
To make learning
objects maximally
reusable, learning
objects should
contain as little
context as possible.
The Reusability Paradox image by David Wiley used under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0) Retrieved from
http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/

23. “Therefore, pedagogical
effectiveness and potential for
reuse are completely at odds
with one another, unless the
end user is permitted to edit
the learning object.”
Source: The Reusability Paradox, David Wiley, Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/

25. Only for items you want to copy
(Linking and embedding ok)

26. Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY
License Features

27. Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

29. Credit: This is a modified version of a slide from Adopting Open
Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under CC-BY. Text has
been removed and the CC0 logo has been added
Spectrum of Openness

30. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Credit: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY

31. How Machine Readable Code
works IRL*
Google search with Open Attribute browser plugin
* In Real Life

32. How do I mark stuff I want to license?

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35. creativecommons.org/choose/

36. How do I properly attribute CC stuff I use?

37. Attribution - TASL
T – Title
A – Artist
S – Source (usually link)
L – CC license
If you modify, note what you changed
wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution

38. Shark! by guitarfish CC-BY

39. Modified image Shark! by
guitarfish CC-BY Text and arrow
added.
Never will be me

40. Modified image Shark! by
guitarfish CC-BY Text and arrow
added.
Never will be me

41. Modified image Shark! by
guitarfish CC-BY Text and arrow
added. Shark text from
Wikipedia used under a CC-BY-
SA
Never will be me
Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a
cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on
the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are
not fused to the head.

42. This is a modified image based
on the image Shark! by guitarfish
CC-BY Text and arrow was
added. Shark text from
Wikipedia used under a CC-BY-
SA license
This image is released under a
CC-BY-SA license
Never will be me
Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a
cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on
the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are
not fused to the head.

43. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#If_I_derive_or_adapt_mat
erial_offered_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.2C_which_CC_license.28s.29_can_I_use.
3F
Adaptations

44. Activity: Write the attribution
Step1: Create a new Word document. Search Flickr for a Creative Commons
licensed image. Download a copy of the image and paste it into a Word document.
Write the attribution for the photo using the TASL guidelines in the document.
Step 2: License the new document with a CC license that is compatible with the
image you have chosen.
Use the resources at the Creative Commons site.
• License picker
• Best Practices for Attribution
• Compatibility chart

45. Finding OER
Open Textbooks
(remember you don’t have to use entire textbook. Copy, cut/paste and use just parts, bits and pieces if you want)
open.bccampus.ca The BC Campus collection
OpenStax College major project out of Rice University
General Searches
Use the Creative Commons search engine
Search Google using Advanced Search (scroll down to usage rights. How do these line up with the CC licenses?)
Always follow back to original source to confirm license on the original site.
Public General repositories
Wikimedia Commons: content created by community to support Wikipedia articles
Flickr: user generated photos & The Commons, open photos from cultural institutions
Slideshare: Presentations and slides
Edu specific
OER Commons
MERLOT (be sure to drill down into communities for specific academic resources, like the Teacher Education
portal)
MIT Open Courseware
SOLR - BC created open resources

46. Activity: Build an OER
Break into small groups (3-4), and, using the resources you have seen, collaboratively create a
new piece of instructional content built with openly licensed resources that you find and
copy from the internet. You may want to work with people who have a similar discipline
background as you.
Some ideas:
• If you have discipline specific knowledge or are classroom faculty, design a short lesson on
a topic that you teach using OER’s.
• Search for OER’s on using OER’s and, using thse, build a primer for faculty on how to use
OER’s.
• Create a handout for faculty on how to write learning objectives using OER.
• Remix this workshop! Build a short presentation on OER’s with the materials I have openly
licensed today.
Search and find images, text and multimedia content from the resources you have seen
today.
Be sure to attribute the resources you use correctly within the document, and decide on a
license to released your newly created object with that is compatible with all the licenses in
your document.

47. Open Pedagogy?
At it’s core, the question of open pedagogy is “what can I
do in the context of open that I couldn’t do before?”
David Wiley, Evolving Open Pedagogy

48. Open Pedagogy?
• Working on the open web with openly licensed
materials
• Real. Authentic. It Matters.
• Make connections to larger community possible.
• Disposable vs. authentic assignments.

49. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

50. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa

52. “Jonathan Worth's classes live on blogs and on
Twitter (hashtag #phonar), and are proving a
popular resource amongst photography
enthusiasts and professionals alike.”
“Worth can see comments from students both
in the room and online via Twitter or Facebook
in real time, as well as allowing others to drop
in, or suggest links to relevant material. It's a
fluid learning experience”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20495489

53. “Through my work with #phonar I have learnt the world is filled with
lots of different people and we all think and learn differently. “
“The skills I have learned and developed from the open classes have
given me the confidence in my work to distribute it and enter it into
national and international competitions. “
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20495489

54. Network Mentors

56. Open Pedagogy Challenge
What can you do that you could not do before in the
context of open?