Making Teaching and Learning
Awesome with Open
David Wiley, PhD
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Goal: leverage the full technical
capability of the internet for
teaching and learning
education
education =
education = sharing
sharing
what you know
sharing
feedback
sharing
encouragement
sharing
passion
sharing
yourself
“internet”
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Make a copy
of a book
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distribute
a book
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
unprecedented capacity
sharing
education = sharing
unprecedented capacity
education
except, it doesn’t
©
Copyright
Regulates
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying
of a book
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distributing
a book
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Tech
Enables
Law
Forbids
in the air?
open
Open Educational Resources
open ≠ free
open = free + permissions
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable copyright
permissions
Tech
Enables
OER
Permits
Not “Affordable” – Open
Cost Permissions
Textbooks Expensive None
Library
Resources
Free to Use None
OER Free to Use 5Rs
traditionally © materials
+ internet
openly licensed materials
+ internet
Open enables you to
leverage the full technical
capability of the internet for
teaching and learning
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is “resources that
create benefits for society
primarily through the facilitation
of downstream productive
activities.”
-- Brett Frischmann
“downstream productive activities”
Permissionless Innovation
Adam Thierer
Democratizing Innovation
Eric Von Hippel
Infrastructure and Innovation
Relatively inexpensive
Broad permissions
If Broadband Cost…
$500 / month?
$5000 / month?
Does Amazon or Google exist?
Do online courses exist?
If Broadcast Licenses…
were necessary to publish video?
were necessary to publish text?
Does YouTube or blogging exist?
Do online courses exist?
thrives when the costs and obstacles to
experimenting are low
“Don't EVER make the mistake that
you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively
parallel trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle. That's giving your
intelligence _much_ too much credit.”
-- Linus Torvalds
Outcomes Assessments Textbooks
Intellectual Infrastructure of Ed
Outcomes Assessments Textbooks
Relatively expensive
Very narrow permissions
Relatively Expensive
Only those with significant capital
can afford to experiment and innovate
Textbook Pricing in Context
One Month Access to… Costs…
Netflix – 10k Movies / TV Episodes $7.99 / month
Spotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $19.67 / month
“Disappearing Ink” Strategies
Buyback, rental, e-books
online subscriptions
Very Narrow Permissions
ALL Rights Reserved
Relatively expensive
Very narrow permissions
“Don't EVER make the mistake that
you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively
parallel trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle. That's giving your
intelligence _much_ too much credit.”
-- Linus Torvalds
“Don't EVER make the mistake that
you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively
parallel trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle. That's giving your
intelligence _much_ too much credit.”
-- Linus Torvalds
Trouble with Costs and Permissions?
Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable copyright
permissions
The Impact of Open Textbooks
on Secondary Science Learning
Outcomes
Robinson, Fischer, Hilton, and Wiley
Published in Ed Researcher
Participants
• Nebo School District
• 4183 students
• 43 teachers
• Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry
Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Treatment and Control Group
• Pre and Post Test
• Dependent variable: Score on 2012
statewide standardized science exam
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 15 Covariates: including age, gender, special
education, English language proficiency,
2011 test data, 2011 GPA, and race
Outcome: State Standardized Test
• IRT scaled scores increased with
open textbooks, p < .001
• Multiple r squared = .635
(variance in scores accounted for
in our model)
A Multi-Institutional Study of the
Impact of Open Textbook Adoption
on the Learning Outcomes of Post-
secondary Students
Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley
Accepted in JCHE
Participants
• 4909 treatment
• 11,818 control
• 50 different undergraduate courses
• 130 teachers
• 10 institutions
Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Propensity Score Matching
• Post Test Only
• Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better;
Credits Enrolled This Term; Next Term
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 3 covariates: including age, gender, and race
Results
Credits Taken
Semester Treatment Control Result
Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01
Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01)
Mad, Glad, Sad, Rad:
A Framework for Evaluating the
Academic Return on Investment in
Textbooks and Other Educational
Materials
Wiley, Hilton, Fischer, and Puente
Submitted
“Mad” “Glad”
“Sad” “Rad”
Cost
Completing with C or Better
Student Success per Dollar
0 100%
$200
“Mad” “Glad”
“Sad” “Rad”
Cost
Completing with C or Better
Commercial
Student Success per Dollar
0 100%
$200
“Mad” “Glad”
“Sad” “Rad”
Cost
Completing with C or Better
Commercial
OER
Student Success per Dollar
0 100%
$200
Completing with C or Better
Student Success per Dollar
0 100%
0
50
100
150
200
250
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Cost
$250
$0
openedgroup.org/review
11 Peer Reviewed Studies
http://openedgroup.org/
48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
93% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/
9 Peer Reviewed Studies of
Perceptions of OER Quality
http://openedgroup.org/
4,510 Professors and Students
http://openedgroup.org/
50%
Same35%
Better
15%
Worse
http://openedgroup.org/
impact.lumenlearning.com
But Why?
The Remix Hypothesis
The Remix Hypothesis
Type of OER Adoption
Replace “As-is” adopt an open textbook
Realign Remix OER with learning objs /
compentencies as TOC
Rethink Realign (as above) and
reconsider assessment strategy
The Remix Hypothesis
Change in Student Learning
Replace Small
Realign Moderate
Rethink Large
Remix and the Kragle-verse
The LEGO Movie and permissions
Lord Business and the Kragle
Emmett and the Piece of Resistance
Emmett and the Piece of Resistance
Rethinking Assessment
In situ formative assessment
Delete disposable assessments
Design renewable assessments
Disposable Assignments
Students hate doing them
You hate grading them
Huge waste of time and energy
Renewable Assignments
Students see value in doing them
You see value in grading them
The world is a better place at the end
PM4ID
PM4ID
Renewable Assignments
Are enabled by the open nature of
activities and resources
So What?
Open
Outcomes
Open
Activities
Open
Educational
Resources
Open Education Infrastructure
Open
Outcomes
Open
Activities
Open
Educational
Resources
Innovation?
Open
Outcomes
Open
Activities
Open
Educational
Resources
Downstream Productive Activities
Open Pedagogy
Open Business Models
Open Credentialing Models
The Z-Degree
REMOVING TEXTBOOK COSTS AS A
BARRIER TO STUDENT SUCCESS
THROUGH AN OER-BASED CURRICULUM
Decreased cost to
graduate by 25%
Increased
pedagogical flexibility
Improved course
completion rates
In Summary
• Don’t settle for “affordable”
• Improve student outcomes
• Improve affordability
• Improve design / academic freedom
By using open educational resources
Discussion!
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