Latest developments in open source educational materials including open textbooks. Special talk given to Douglas College Faculty of Science and Technology at their 2012 Christmas Luncheon.

1. Paul Stacey
Latest developments in open source educational materials.
Faculty of Science & Technology
Christmas Luncheon 5-Dec-2012

2. Fair Dealing
Bill C-32 & C-11

3. Access Copyright
• June 2010 Interim tariff for 2011-13
• From $5 to $35/$45 per student
• No catalog of collection – digital?
• No financial justification
• Contentious definitions of a copy
• Extensive reporting and access rqts
• Objections - CAUT, ACCC, AUCC,
CLA, Canadian Alliance of Students, ...
• Interrogatories
• Opt outs – 34 and counting
• U of T & Western deal $27.50
• AUCC – closed door deal $26
• ACCC – $10/student

4. Copyright
• Copyright Modernization Act – Bill C-32 now C-11
• Supreme Court - 6 criteria for evaluating fair dealing
• Expansion of fair dealing to education, parody & satire
• Remix provision – non-commercial mashups
• Technical protection measures – digital lock rules
• Supreme Court of Canada rulings on fair dealing and
copyright summer 2012
Bill C-32 & C-11

5. Social Engagement & Protest
Michael Geist
http://www.michaelgeist.ca
Sam Trusow
http://samtrosow.wordpress.com
Howard Knopf
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.ca

6. A Parallel World

8. Open Data

9. Open Access

10. Open Pedagogies (& MOOC’s)

12. Open Practices

13. Open Govt & Open Policy

14. Open Access
Open Pedagogies (& MOOC’s)
Open Data
Open Practices
Open Govt & Open Policy

15. Common Attributes of Open
• Free – public funding results in a public good
• Access & use is explicitly expressed upfront – not
dependent on access copyright, payment of fees,
proprietary owner permission
• Easily & quickly adapted
• Customization & enhancements don't require large
investments
• Errors, improvements, & feature requests are openly
shared & managed
• Development, distribution & use is
community/consortia based
• Sustainability relies on sharing - resources,
development, hosting & support
• Users are developers

17. Benefits:
•$0 licensing fee
•easily and quickly adapted
•customization and enhancements don't
require large investments
•not dependent on proprietary vendors
implementation decision or timeline
•source code bugs, improvements and
feature requests are all openly shared
and managed
•education institutions can join forces to
form community based developer
networks or share hosting & support
•participants in the developer
communities are also users of the
software

19. Open Data

20. Galleries, Libraries,
Archives & Museums
http://openglam.org/

21. Free, immediate, permanent
online access to the full text
of research articles for
anyone, webwide.
There are two roads to OA:
Open Access 1. the "golden road" of OA journal-
publishing , where journals provide OA to their
articles (either by charging the author-institution
for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead
of charging the user-institution for accessing
incoming articles, or by simply making their online
edition free for all)
2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving,
where authors provide OA to their own published
articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

22. Open Access Press
http://www.aupress.ca

23. Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
http://www.openj-gate.com

24. US Research Works Act

25. Open Pedagogies

26. Massively Open Online Courses
Teaching openly in public
http://etec522.linden.olt.ubc.ca
http://ds106.us
Students as co-creators
http://strangelove.com

27. Massive Open Online Course - MOOC
https://www.ai-class.com
2011 – 160,000 students, 190 countries
http://www.udacity.com
http://www.edxonline.org/

29. OER are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an open license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by
others.
Open educational resources include full courses
and supplemental resources such as textbooks,
images, videos, animations, simulations,
assessments, …
Core Concept
OER are learning materials that are freely
available under a license that allow you to:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remixe
•Redistribute

30. http://oercommons.org

31. Foundation Funded OER
http://cnx.org
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
http://ocw.mit.edu

32. Publicly Funded OER
http://solr.bccampus.ca
http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english
http://www.doleta.gov/TAACCCT

33. Find OER
http://open4us.org/find-oer

34. OER IP, Copyright & Licensing
Core Concept
• Know who the IP copyright owner is (province,
institution, faculty, …)
• IP/copyright owner puts Creative Commons licenses
on educational materials to make them into OER

35. Creative Commons

36. Open License
http://creativecommons.org
http://www.creativecommons.org

37. Copyright holder uses open license to
express rights associated with reuse.

38. http://creativecommons.ca/
March 30, 2012
http://openedconference.org/2012/
http://www.opendatasalon.ca/home

43. North American Network of Science Labs Online
http://www.wiche.edu/nanslo
Remote Web-based Science Lab
http://rwsl.nic.bc.ca
http://nextgenlearning.org

44. Open Textbooks
• An openly-licensed textbook offered online
• Can read online, download, or print the book at no cost
(or small cost for print version)
Students spend roughly $900-$1,000 a year on texts.

45. http://www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks-reports/a-cover-to-cover-solution

46. Oct-2012
The BC Ministry of Advanced
Education, Innovation, and
Technology open textbook
announcement. This initiative
will support creation of open
textbooks for the 40 most
popular first and second-year
courses in the province’s public
post-secondary system. The
open textbooks will be openly
licensed and made available for
free online, or at a low cost for
printed versions, to
approximately 200,000 students.
http://edtechfrontier.com

47. Open Textbooks
http://oerconsortium.org
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org

48. Open Practices

49. http://www.jorum.ac.uk
OERu
http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Home

51. Open Govt. & Open Policy

52. Promote creative and
innovative activities, which
will deliver social and
economic benefits.
Make government more
transparent and open in its
activities, ensuring that the
public are better informed
about the work of the
government and the public
sector.
Enable more civic and
democratic engagement
through social enterprise and
voluntary and community
activities.
http://creativecommons.org/government

53. https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32072

54. 2012 WORLD OER CONGRESS
UNESCO, PARIS, JUNE 20-22, 2012
DRAFT DECLARATION
a. Support the use of OER through
the revision of policy regulating
higher education
b. Contribute to raising awareness
of key OER issues
c. Review national ICT/connectivity
strategies for Higher Education
d. Consider adapting open licensing
frameworks
e. Consider adopting open format
standards
f. Support institutional investments
in curriculum design
g. Support the sustainable
production and sharing of
learning materials
h. Collaborate to find effective ways
to harness OER.

55. Q&A – Followup
Paul Stacey
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
444 Castro Street, Suite 900
Mountain View, CA 94041
web site: http://creativecommons.org
e-mail: pstacey@creativecommons.org
blog: http://edtechfrontier.com