This document discusses open education and its benefits. It defines open pedagogy as connecting students to the public to empower them to shape their future. Open access is described as allowing academic research to benefit the public and engage with influence from the public. Open educational resources are presented as relieving the financial burden on students of textbook costs, which average $1,328 per year, and supporting public education. Data shows high percentages of students do not purchase required textbooks or take fewer courses due to cost. Creative Commons licensing is described as allowing openly-licensed content that should not cost much. Benefits of open educational resources include their multimedia, accessible, interactive, collaborative, dialogic and dynamic nature which can empower contribution and keep content current

1. Open Education
for the digped activist
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Robin DeRosa
@actualham
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3. Open Education
Teaching: Open Pedagogy is how we connect students to
the public and empower them to shape their future world.
Scholarship: Open Access (OA) is how we allow the
academy’s research to work for the public good, and how
we help the public to engage with and influence our
contributions.
Service: Open Educational Resources (OER) are one of
the ways we relieve the financial burden on the most
vulnerable members of the educational system—
students—and are part of a larger commitment to making
public education work for the public.

4. • Average student book
budget is $1,328/yr.
• That’s equal to 11% of
tuition at my
university.
• Students worry more
about paying for
books than they
worry about paying
for college.
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5. Effects of
Textbook Prices
• 60% of students report
not purchasing a
required textbook
because of cost, and
23% regularly go without
books due to cost
• 50% of students report
taking fewer courses
due to textbook costs
• 14% have dropped a
course and 10% have
withdrawn from a course
due to textbook costs
2012 Survey of 22,000 students,
Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the
12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
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6. CreativeCommons

7. OER

8. Square 1: Openly-Licensed Content
(Public Domain Lit Shouldn’t Cost $87)

9. Constantly
Evolving:
Students &
Teachers
Add,
Improve,
Share

10. Interactive and Public Annotation

11. When is a
textbook more
than a textbook?
• Multimedia
• Accessible
• Interactive
• Collaborative
• Dialogic
• Dynamic
• Empowering
• Contributory
• Current
• Public
• (Free)

12. Public
Engagement
PLNs: Who can
student work
engage?
Blogs: Who is
student work for?
ePorts: Who owns
student work?
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13. …“personal cyberinfrastructure”…

14. CC BY Cable Green: http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

15. to OPEN (vb.)
• connect students to the
public & empower them to
shape their future world
(OpenPed)
• allow the academy’s
research to work for the
public good
(OA)
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• make public education work for the public (OER)

16. More OpenPed Examples
Building an OER Textbook
with PressBooks
ePorts, Hypothes.is,
Twitter, Creative Commons
Challenges of Working on
the Open Web
Obstacles to “Open”
New Publishing Models for
Open Access
How Much Money Can
OER Save?
Who to Follow to Get
Involved