Keynote address on open educational resources for annual BYU Independent Study conference.

1. Finding and Using Open Educational Resources David Wiley Instructional Psychology & Technology Brigham Young University

2. http://slideshare.net/opencontent This presentation, including URLs, &c.

4. Open Educational Resources? Let’s begin by defining terms

5. Open, adj. Describes educational artifacts

6. Open Textbooks Open Educational Resources Open Courseware (Open Source Software)

7. Open, adj. Teaching materials freely shared with permissions to engage in the “4R” activities

8. The 4Rs Reuse – copy verbatim Redistribute – share with others Revise – adapt and improve Remix – combine with others

9. Communicate 4Rs Permissions Since this overrides default copyright,you must use a copyright license

10. Offers easy to use 4R’s licenses

12. CC Licensed Items Online (Millions) 250 200 150 100 50 2009 2007 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003

13. While Nouns Differ… The operationalizing actions are the same

14. Open, adj. Generous, sharing, giving

15. Your Inner Two-year Old Overcoming the impulse to scream “Mine!”

16. Law and Policy “Enable” Us To shout “Mine!” ever more loudly, convulse ever more uncontrollably, and hit each other with ever larger toys

17. Society’s Siren Song “Be selfish. Keep it to yourself.It’s legal. It’s ok.”

18. Education Is Not Immune This kind of thinking is accepted in our schools and programs

19. Role of Openness in Education? A terrible, insidious question

20. Openness is the only means of doing education.

21. If There Is No Sharing… There is no education

22. Education, n. A relationship of sharing

23. Successful Educators Share most thoroughly with the most students

24. Expertise Is Nonrivalrous Can be given without being given away

25. “He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson

26. Teachers Would Be Like Bees! They could only teach once

27. Expressions Are Different To give a book you must give it away

28. Expressions Are Different To give a book you must give it away

29. Expressions Are Different n’t ^ Digital expressions are nonrivalrous

30. E.g., Online Book We can all read simultaneously

31. An Indescribable Advance The first time in human history

32. Expertise and Its Expressions Give without giving away

33. Unprecedented Capacity We can share as never before

34. Unprecedented Capacity We can educate as never before

35. Why and Where? Why would I want to use OER? Where can I find OER?

38. http://ck12.org/ CK-12

41. http://openhighschool.org/ Open High School of Utah

43. http://oercommons.org/ OER Commons

45. http://bit.ly/aIEiGF Open Educational Resources Handbook for Educators

47. BYU IS - IPT 515R Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

49. http://google.com/ Google

57. Each and Every Interaction Recorded and stored for analysisto improve quality of service / experience

59. Even the Grocer! Almost every industry uses data more effectively than we do

60. If We Had This Kind of Data… Education could engage incontinuous quality improvement, too!

63. What Kind of Data? When they logged in, read, and worked How long they logged in, read, and worked Pathway information, Item-by-item analytics, &c.

64. FeedbackLoop Curriculum Redesign Data Describing Curriculum Performance Data Supporting Strategic Tutoring Curriculum Use Student Performance Data

65. Open, adj. Increasing (1) access and (2) local control

66. More Open We Are The better / less expensive / more efficienteducation will be

67. Thank You! david.wiley@byu.edu http://davidwiley.org/