Opening Up ICT Education: Open Source, Open Textbooks, Open Courses, and Open Access Journals The open source pioneers launched the “open” movement in the 1990s with the promotion of freely reusable software and community development. Since that time open textbooks, open courses, and open-access journals have joined the disruptive “open” movement. IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, recently announced that all its peer-reviewed journals will offer open-access publishing. Come and find out about the repositories for open textbooks, open courses, and journals that you can freely reuse in your ICT classroom to lower costs and enhance your teaching. This session will help attendees to understand the current open education movement in the context of the early open source initiative and how that eventually lead to the open course movement, open textbooks, and open access journal publishing. The presenter will share the IEEE and ACM policy studies of transformig their scholarly journal business from an “all rights reserved” to “open access option” publishing model. In addition, recent California state higher education policy and legislation that has been supportive of open educational practices to lower costs for students will be discussed. Finally, attendees will have an opportunity to explore national and international repositories for open courses, open textbooks, and open access journals that can be freely re-used in community college ICT classrooms.

1. Opening Up ICT Education:
Open Source, Open Textbooks, Open
Courses, and Open Access Journals
Las Positas College
Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium
John Gonder, Las Positas College
Mid-Pacific ICT 2014 Conference
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2. Welcome
Una Daly
Director, Community College Outreach
OCW Consortium
John Gonder
Director, Cisco Networking Academy
Las Positas College

3. Agenda
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Introductions
Community College Consortium
Open Source to Open Access Movement
Free and Open Resources in Classroom
Applications
Questions & Answers

4. OpenCourseWare Consortium
(founded by MIT in 2002)
“Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, highquality education materials organized as courses.”
280 institutions in 46 Countries

5. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expand access to education
– Support professional development
– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

6. 240+ Colleges in
15 States & Provinces

7. Higher Education Context
• Textbook costs increased 82% in last
decade.
• Student debt exceeds $1 trillion (2013)
• Average student debt upon graduation is
$27,000
Image: Student Loan,
Wikipedia

8. Educational Openness
– Expand
Open Source Software
Open Access
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, UCT Pedagogy of
MOOCs

9. Open Source
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks, &
MOOCs

10. Open Education Resources
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources
Reside in the public domain or have been
released under an open license (creative
commons) that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
Includes full courses and supplemental
resources such as textbooks, images, videos,
animations, simulations, assessments with
licensed that allow:
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open Textbooks,
& MOOCs

11. TAACCCT Grants
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Work-College Bridge
Health
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Energy
Transportation
$2 billion funding over four years
All materials licensed for re-use (cc-by)
Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open

12. Open ICT Courses

13. Open ICT Textbooks
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14. Open Access
Free, immediate, permanent
online access to the full text of
research articles for anyone,
webwide.
Two Approaches:
1. Author’s
institution pays fee for
refereeing/publishing outgoing articles
instead of charging the or by simply
making online edition free for all.
2. Authors provide open access to their
own published articles, by making eprints
free for all.
Adapted from Paul Stacey, CC-BY 2013, OER, Open
Textbooks, & MOOCs

15. Taxpayer Access
to Publicly Funded Research
• White House Directive (2013)
Federal agencies with $100M in R&D
expenditures must make results of
federally funded research freely available
to the public within one year of publication
• California State AB 609 Open Access
progresses to Senate 2014.

16. IEEE Open Access Journals
• Fully Open Access & Hybrids
– Both are fully peer-reviewed
– OA includes Emerging Topics in Computing
• Wireless, mobile, socio-technical special issues
• IEEE Access
– Multidisciplinary open access mega journal
– Rapid decision, author pays
“IEEE peer-reviewed journals receive more than
three times the number of patent citations of
competing publishers.*

17. ACM
Open Access
• Options for Rights Management
– Author may choose traditional copyright or may pay for
open access option.
• Open Access at SIG Conferences Option
– SIGs will have the option to make the proceedings from
their conferences freely available via the ACM DL
• Many free career resources for students
• Textbooks available to ACM members
– Student membership $20.00 annually

18. Obviousness of “Open”
• Cooperation & Sharing is a win-win
– Faculty have more choices
– Can improve upon open resources
• Affordability
– Students cannot afford textbooks.
• Self-interest
– Good things can happen when I share …
• Social Justice Issue
Image: Gary Simmons cc-by-nc
– Access to publicly funded research & digital
resources
Adapted from Cable Green, CC-BY 3.0 2013, the Obviousness of Open

19. John Gonder’s ICT Classroom
• Improving teaching and learning with
– Open Source software
– free and low-cost apps
– free and low-cost textbooks and
instructional materials.
– ACM student memberships
http://tinyurl.com/2014MPICT
john gonder (las positas college)
twitter @packetlevel, email jgonder at mac.com

20. Thank you for coming!!
• Questions?
• Contact Info:
Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
John Gonder, jgonder@mac.com
Las Positas College