Why we need activism and projects implemented to create and deploy OER by as many people as possible in order to change the reasons faculty don't adopt or build it.

1. Week 14/15
Open Activism Project
Final project / omg the semester is
almost over
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Bryan Ollendyke
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Developer Activist

2. Today’s Topic / What you'll learn about
- The Open Education / OER movement
- What we’ll do:
- Understand the history of OER briefly
- Understand the context keeping more
faculty from adopting OER
- Strike the match to begin burning down
the textbook industry

3. Links to poke around / sources
- https://davidwiley.org/
- https://oerschema.org
- https://stem-researchethics.psu.edu/
- https://kat-wehr.github.io/mysite/2016-06-15/is-oer-really-
open

4. Terms / definitions for today
- OER – Open Educational Resources
- Semantic Web – human logic, readable,
easy to follow both for humans and
machines

7. https://openedconference.org/

11. https://lumenlearning.com/

12. https://www.khanacademy.org/

13. https://www.wikipedia.org/

14. But... I have a question...
HOW DO THESE MAKE MONEY!?!??!?!?!!

15. https://www.wikipedia.org/

16. https://www.khanacademy.org/

17. https://ocw.mit.edu/

18. Will these things last forever in their current state?
Can we donate our way to a free-er future?

19. https://lumenlearning.com/

20. https://kat-wehr.github.io/mysite/2016-06-15/is-oer-really-open

21. https://kat-wehr.github.io/mysite/2016-06-15/is-oer-really-open

23. https://oer.psu.edu/

25. https://pressbooks.com/

29. https://oerschema.org/

30. https://oerschema.org/

32. https://stem-researchethics.psu.edu/

33. How many of you have had courses that
use OER?
How many of you have had courses
without required books?
How many courses?

34. https://oer.psu.edu/

35. IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM
IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM
IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM
IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM
IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM
IT SHOULD BE ALL OF THEM

37. “Administration will do what students want if they demand it”
– All faculty
Let’s to put that into action..

38. Open Activism
Final Project

39. Final project history
- OER required a mental / policy shift
- That has taken place over ~12 years
- OER is an acceptable form of scholarship
- But now that it’s socially acceptable..
Why hasn’t it taken off further?
Open Activism
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40. OER is moving from
advocacy problem phase
into
technology problem phase
No more
“It’s too hard to do”

41. Final project context
- OER has been discussed since ~2016 here
It will only take off at Penn State:
- if we have easier tools to use
- that require little / no setup
- that are demonstrated effectively
- “what students want / demand”
Open Activism
Project

42. Final project context
- Existing solutions..
- Don’t take into account portability
- Require advanced HTML or server
knowledge in order to use
- Need for format that’s forever remixable
(aka not PDFs)
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Project

43. Final project political theory
- We need top down and bottom up adoption
of a new way behaving. The way to best
achieve that isn’t to topple existing
structures. It’s to modify behavior and
create a new normal.
- For the top to come down, we need the
bottom to rise up
- with enough people we form new norms
- when there’s a new norm, and its
successful others adopt that norm
willingly
Open Activism
Project

44. Two ways to complete final project:
1. Make an OER resource
- Create an OER platform using a CMS we covered
- Create 10-20 pages of content covering the topic
- Make a video explaining why your solution for OER
is easy to use and why other faculty should adopt.
2. Work on an issue in our issue queues to learn more about
web components through direct contribution to an open
source project.
- Build a web component our project needs / that is
open source and free for others to use
- Do a blog post on dev.to about building the web
component, how others can get started etc
- DM me if you have interest in this as I can only do
5 this way because of scale
Open Activism
Project

45. Final project concept 1:
- Identify a topic in your current or past
courses that was poorly covered or you
felt was something that you could have
Google’d and done a better job
(a common theme brought up in IST)
- Do this now in class:
- If you can think of one, cool
- If not, take time now and find one
- Pitch me (in Slack) the topic
I have to approve the topic
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Project

46. Final project Concept 1 Deliverable
Create a comprehensive resource using CMS of your choice
that covers this topic in detail and with a variety of engaging
elements
(roughly 10-15 pages/nodes)
Should be a topic poorly covered in a
class you are / have taken
OR
A topic that you feel has been lacking
in proper coverage in your major
Open Activism
Project

47. Final project Deliverable 1 Persuasive Video
Create a persuasive video that make the case for OER and
specifically your technical approach to solving this problem
Video
Create a video that “sells” an instructor on why they should use
the platform you created
Demonstrate how easy it is to create / modify / features of the
platform and why it makes OER easy
Identify open resources you used to help create yours
Identify resources (services offered, websites, technologies,
etc) at Penn State they can leverage to produce more OER
Open Activism
Project

48. Final project 1 Evaluation Rubric:
Did you create a comprehensive resource for
teaching a topic that’s missing? (50%)
- Brings in at least 10 media / special
elements
- Reference resources (videos, playlists,
links, Wikipedia articles, blog posts,
etc)
Is video persuasive to faculty? (50%)
Embed link to video on 1st page of your site
Post link to the #final-project slack channel
Open Activism
Project

49. Final project 2 / Developer Activist:
- DM me about wanting to do this (limit 5 people)
- Work on a web components that will be open source
which may be for HAXcms or personal project
- Publish it to Github / NPM
- Write a blog post on dev.to about creating the web
component using open-wc tooling and LitElement
- 50% in making the element / writing the code
- 50% in writing the dev.to blog post
Embed link to dev.to post which references github / npm
asset
Post link to the #final-project slack channel
Open Activism
Project

50. Rest of the course
building out your resource or web component
Additional class times are now just for confirming your topic,
reviewing projects / approaches, offering feedback.
The course website has additional detail and examples
Absolute submission deadline for this project and all past
labs: May 6th
Open Activism
Project

51. I’m not stupid.
Many of you won’t show up after this
class.
If this is our last time together..

52. Be more than this world would have
you be.
Be the change we need.
Now go tear shit up!

53. Thank you.
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