Open education practices can spread in several ways, including stealth adoptions by individual faculty, infection from one faculty or course to another, committee adoption across departments or institutions, sanctioned exceptional adoption for specific situations, adoption by instructional developers for new courses, inter-institutional adoption between colleges and universities, creation and self-adoption of new open practices, and lone adoption by individuals. These various pathways can inform efforts to spearhead and support innovations at post-secondary institutions.

1. How do Open Education
Practices Spread?
George Veletsianos, PhD
Canada Research Chair
Professor
Royal Roads University
March 2018, Open Education Week, Camosun College, Victoria, BC

2. Acknowledgements

3. Since the launch of the BC Open
Textbook Project (2012)
open textbooks
sections
faculty
institutions
student savings
220
1650
400
All BC
$5,500,000

6. 1 Stealth adoptions

7. 2 Infection

8. 3 Committee adoption

9. 4 Sanctioned exceptional adoption

10. 5 Course/Instructional developer
adoption

11. 6 Inter-institutional carrier adoption

12. 7 Creation and adoption

13. 8 Lone adoption

14. Takeaway
In what ways can these patterns
inform your work in spearheading
and supporting innovations at
your own institutions?

15. Thank you!
George Veletsianos, PhD
Royal Roads University
http://www.veletsianos.com
@veletsianos