This document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges' Open Course Library project. It provides background on OER and open licensing. It then summarizes the goals and impact of the Open Course Library project, which aims to create open online courses that can be adopted across the state to reduce costs and improve student outcomes. It discusses lessons learned from the project's initial phases and next steps to promote greater adoption and integration of open resources.
Keynote address at Innovation in Tertiary Education Services 2014 conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th May 2014.
Discusses how MOOCs are stimulating a climate of innovation and change in education online, shows case studies of innovative teaching formats in a range of Universities and Community Colleges.
Argues that MOOCs are performing at plateau of stable expectations, and that their greatest impact is a set of invigorated conversations around cost, access, quality and delivery of education.
Compares two interdisciplinary courses, one a blended/hybrid course at Harrisburg Community Colleges, and one offered later as a MOOC at UC Irvine, both using topic of Zombies as a vehicle.
Concludes that MOOCs have unleashed an innovative set of approaches across HE (rather than being in them selves innovative). Schools focussed on classroom delivery have an opportunity to re-invent what they do. Elite institutions can use the MOOC as an intermediary format for delivering their content across multiple formats
Keynote address at Innovation in Tertiary Education Services 2014 conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th May 2014.
Discusses how MOOCs are stimulating a climate of innovation and change in education online, shows case studies of innovative teaching formats in a range of Universities and Community Colleges.
Argues that MOOCs are performing at plateau of stable expectations, and that their greatest impact is a set of invigorated conversations around cost, access, quality and delivery of education.
Compares two interdisciplinary courses, one a blended/hybrid course at Harrisburg Community Colleges, and one offered later as a MOOC at UC Irvine, both using topic of Zombies as a vehicle.
Concludes that MOOCs have unleashed an innovative set of approaches across HE (rather than being in them selves innovative). Schools focussed on classroom delivery have an opportunity to re-invent what they do. Elite institutions can use the MOOC as an intermediary format for delivering their content across multiple formats
A presentation on various ways one might try to evaluate the effectiveness of cMOOCs, and some questions and concerns about each one, ending with a question: how best should we do this?
A presentation given at Open UBC week at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Oct. 23, 2013. Much of the second half of the presentation was spent browsing the linked websites, so there isn't much on the slides for the second half!
Presentation given at the Open CourseWare Consortium global conference on May 10, 2013.
Short URL: http://openmi.ch/ocwcg2013.
Abstract available at: http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2013/2013/paper/view/460.
Download slides (PPT, PDF) and speaker notes (RTF) at: http://open.umich.edu/node/7273/.
This presentation deals with the " Massive Open Online Course (MOOC ) which is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants
A presentation on various ways one might try to evaluate the effectiveness of cMOOCs, and some questions and concerns about each one, ending with a question: how best should we do this?
A presentation given at Open UBC week at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Oct. 23, 2013. Much of the second half of the presentation was spent browsing the linked websites, so there isn't much on the slides for the second half!
Presentation given at the Open CourseWare Consortium global conference on May 10, 2013.
Short URL: http://openmi.ch/ocwcg2013.
Abstract available at: http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2013/2013/paper/view/460.
Download slides (PPT, PDF) and speaker notes (RTF) at: http://open.umich.edu/node/7273/.
This presentation deals with the " Massive Open Online Course (MOOC ) which is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants
CCCOER Webinar: Public Speaking with the Open Course LibraryUna Daly
May 22, 2012 Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Webinar featuring the Public Speaking Course Team from Open Course Library in WA State.
edna workshop session 2009. Many educators are looking to the Web to make the sharing of learning resources 'free and easy'. This presentation addresses questions such as: What does free mean? Where do I find this stuff? How good is it? And what can I do with it?
As well as highlighting how to find open education resources, images and media, the session helps educators understand licences used when sharing online resources, including Creative Commons, and shows ways to record attribution in different types of situations.
This presentation is delivered regularly with faculty at our institution to discuss the possibilities of open education and open educational resources. I keep this presentation up to date, so please feel free to use it to share open practices and open pedagogy!
Last updated May 2014
Qatar University Technology Enabled Learning and OpennessPaul_Stacey
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Open education: What does it mean to us, to South Africa and to you?Megan Beckett
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Creative Commons - Building a Global Adult Learning CommonsPaul_Stacey
Presentation video taped at Folkbildningsrådet in Stockholm 28-Jan-2014. Folkbildningsrådet is the Swedish agency responsible for Swedens folk high schools, learning circles and adult education.
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1. Open Educational Resources
Connie Broughton
Director eLearning and Open Education
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Image credit: Marc Wathieu CC BY-NC-SA
2. The Internet changes everything
Anyone can create and
deliver almost anything to
anyone for almost no cost.
Internet + Digital
Resources +
Open License
3. September 2007
Cape Town Open Education
Declaration
“…we have an opportunity to dramatically improve
the lives of hundreds of millions of people around
the world through freely available, high-quality,
locally relevant educational and learning
opportunities.”
4. Where do we start?
Photo credit: loop_oh CC BY-ND
http://whyopenedmatters.org
5. Strategic Technology Plan
Strategy I:
Create a single, system-wide suite of online
teaching and learning tools that provides all
Washington students with easy access to
“anywhere, anytime” learning.
http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx
6. June 2010
SBCTC Open Policy
All digital software, educational resources and
knowledge produced through competitive
grants, offered through and/or managed by the
SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons
Attribution License.
http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_
Licensing_Policy.pdf
7. Textbook Affordability
English Composition I
50,000+ enrollments / year
x $100 textbook
$5+ Million every year
8. Affordances of Open
OER allows you to:
• Reuse
• Redistribute
And sometimes:
• Revise
• Remix
Photo credit: mag3737 CC BY-NC-SA
12. The Open Course Library
Funded: $1.2 million
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington State Legislature
13. Goals of the Open Course Library
Design and share 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper courses
Improve course completion rates
Lower textbook costs for students (<$30)
Provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses
Fully engage our colleges in the global open educational
resources discussion.
14. Open Course Library
Phase 1: 42 courses
http://opencourselibrary.org
http://saylor.org
Phase 2 : 39 courses
Available Spring 2013
15. The first 42 courses were
released October 31, 2011
Over 80 media mentions worldwide
Over 25,000 visits from 125 countries to
http://opencourselibrary.org
16. Initial Impact
In the first year, students will save
$1.1 million in textbook costs
That’s more than we spent to develop the
courses…
17. Lessons Learned
Phase 1 Faculty Concerns:
Many were unfamiliar with ANGEL LMS
No way to compare work between course teams
Too many websites to keep track of
Phase 2 Adjustments:
Using Google Docs to collaborate & share as we go
All project information in one Google Site
18. Next Steps
Driving Open Course Library Course Adoptions
Regional conferences and workshops
New faculty trainings
Building open sharing into existing teaching workflows
and technologies
Next LMS will have “open sharing” feature
Explore open sharing via Tegrity
Working with system librarians to track and
promote open content
20. Great places to find openly licensed
images, video, clipart, etc:
search.creativecommons.org.
21. Where can I search specifically for
Open Educational Resources (OER)?
• opencourselibrary.org
• oercommons.org/oer
• Connexions (cnx.org)
• saylor.org
• oerglue.com/courses
Through a match from the Gates Foundation and the State Legislature, the Open Course Library initiative was created. The goals of the Open Course Library are to:design and share 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper coursesImprove course completion ratesLower textbook costs for students (<$30)Provide new resources for faculty to use in their coursesFully engage our colleges in the global open educational resources discussion
Through a match from the Gates Foundation and the State Legislature, the Open Course Library initiative was created. The goals of the Open Course Library are to:design and share 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper coursesImprove course completion ratesLower textbook costs for students (<$30)Provide new resources for faculty to use in their coursesFully engage our colleges in the global open educational resources discussion