This document discusses an open textbook collaboration between British Columbia and Manitoba. It provides information on open textbooks, including their benefits of being freely available online and their licensing under Creative Commons. Manitoba has launched an initiative to have faculty review and provide feedback on existing open textbooks. The goal is to increase access to post-secondary education by lowering costs through open textbooks.
How not to promote open sharing of teaching materials at a university: UBC's ...Christina Hendricks
The University of British Columbia's Policy 81 aims to encourage open sharing of teaching materials but has had the opposite effect. The policy allows UBC to use and revise faculty teaching materials without permission. This has angered faculty and their union, who see it as a violation of academic freedom and intellectual property rights. As a result of Policy 81, many faculty are now less willing to share their teaching materials openly, and some have stopped sharing altogether due to mistrust of UBC's motives. The policy has damaged faculty attitudes toward open sharing and open licensing of their work.
The document summarizes the development and testing of open textbooks for accessibility by the BC Open Textbook Project. Key points:
- Students with disabilities tested chapters from open textbooks and provided feedback.
- Based on student feedback, the project published an Accessibility Toolkit to provide best practices for making open textbook content accessible.
- The Toolkit guides open textbook creators on universal design principles and accessible design for different types of content like images, tables and text.
This document discusses open education and provides an overview of the topic. It defines open education as using open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide. Some key points made include:
- Open education allows knowledge and expressions to be given without being given away for the first time in human history due to technology.
- It benefits learners through lower costs and higher quality resources, and benefits faculty through increased reputation and reaching more learners.
- Many open education initiatives are happening around the world, including open textbooks at the University of Minnesota and interactive simulations on the PhET website.
- Delft University of Technology has created over 50 MOOCs and published 200 open courseware courses. The document encourages starting open education efforts
Open Education Week: MOOCs at UCT
Presentation for Open Education Week, University of Cape Town, 11 March 2015
Sukaina Walji with Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Mary-Ann Fife, Tasneem Jaffer & Janet Small
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town
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!
Willem van Valkenburg is the coordinator of TU Delft's Open Education team and a project leader for the EU-funded OCW in European higher education. He believes open education allows worldwide access to top-quality education and benefits both students and institutions by limiting costs while improving quality. TU Delft offers various open initiatives including OpenCourseWare containing free course materials, MOOCs on edX with tens of thousands of students, and online distance education programs. Research shows MOOCs require significant resources to produce and that student background has little influence on achievement in the courses.
Open.Ed. Supporting engagement with learning technology through open education Lorna Campbell
The document outlines the University of Edinburgh's strategic vision and policies around open education and open educational resources (OER). It discusses plans to increase online learning opportunities, make collections and resources openly available online, and support staff in creating and sharing OER. The university aims to enhance education, showcase its teaching excellence, and promote public engagement through open sharing of its archives and materials. An OER policy was approved to encourage open practices in support of these goals.
How not to promote open sharing of teaching materials at a university: UBC's ...Christina Hendricks
The University of British Columbia's Policy 81 aims to encourage open sharing of teaching materials but has had the opposite effect. The policy allows UBC to use and revise faculty teaching materials without permission. This has angered faculty and their union, who see it as a violation of academic freedom and intellectual property rights. As a result of Policy 81, many faculty are now less willing to share their teaching materials openly, and some have stopped sharing altogether due to mistrust of UBC's motives. The policy has damaged faculty attitudes toward open sharing and open licensing of their work.
The document summarizes the development and testing of open textbooks for accessibility by the BC Open Textbook Project. Key points:
- Students with disabilities tested chapters from open textbooks and provided feedback.
- Based on student feedback, the project published an Accessibility Toolkit to provide best practices for making open textbook content accessible.
- The Toolkit guides open textbook creators on universal design principles and accessible design for different types of content like images, tables and text.
This document discusses open education and provides an overview of the topic. It defines open education as using open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide. Some key points made include:
- Open education allows knowledge and expressions to be given without being given away for the first time in human history due to technology.
- It benefits learners through lower costs and higher quality resources, and benefits faculty through increased reputation and reaching more learners.
- Many open education initiatives are happening around the world, including open textbooks at the University of Minnesota and interactive simulations on the PhET website.
- Delft University of Technology has created over 50 MOOCs and published 200 open courseware courses. The document encourages starting open education efforts
Open Education Week: MOOCs at UCT
Presentation for Open Education Week, University of Cape Town, 11 March 2015
Sukaina Walji with Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Mary-Ann Fife, Tasneem Jaffer & Janet Small
Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching, University of Cape Town
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!
Willem van Valkenburg is the coordinator of TU Delft's Open Education team and a project leader for the EU-funded OCW in European higher education. He believes open education allows worldwide access to top-quality education and benefits both students and institutions by limiting costs while improving quality. TU Delft offers various open initiatives including OpenCourseWare containing free course materials, MOOCs on edX with tens of thousands of students, and online distance education programs. Research shows MOOCs require significant resources to produce and that student background has little influence on achievement in the courses.
Open.Ed. Supporting engagement with learning technology through open education Lorna Campbell
The document outlines the University of Edinburgh's strategic vision and policies around open education and open educational resources (OER). It discusses plans to increase online learning opportunities, make collections and resources openly available online, and support staff in creating and sharing OER. The university aims to enhance education, showcase its teaching excellence, and promote public engagement through open sharing of its archives and materials. An OER policy was approved to encourage open practices in support of these goals.
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.
This document discusses MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their relevance for organizations. It defines MOOCs and outlines UCT's strategy for offering MOOCs, which aims to position UCT as a world-class university, promote African scholarship, share learning globally, and apply lessons to degree courses. Challenges of MOOCs like limited internet access are addressed. Case studies show how businesses and governments use MOOCs for skills training. Emerging models blend MOOCs with formal courses. MOOCs offer opportunities but require consideration of digital literacy and content suitability.
Slides for a workshop session on "Preparing for Tomorrow’s World: Helping University Information Services Respond to Technological, Economic and Political Change" facilitated by Brian Kelly at the Information Services 2014 conference held on 24 June 2014 at the University of Brighton.
For further information see
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/preparing-for-tomorrows-world/
Presentation by the OCW Consortium to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries. Describes the OER and OCW movements and their relation to the values and work of university libraries.
Overview of open educational resources for university libraries, relating the vision and mission of OER to the Open Access movement in libraries worldwide. Presentation to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries by the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
1) The document introduces open educational resources (OER) which are teaching, learning, and research materials that can be freely used and modified. OER include full courses, textbooks, videos, and other education tools and materials.
2) It notes that college textbook costs have increased dramatically, rising over 800% since 1978 and 3.2 times the rate of inflation. Using OER can help reduce costs for students.
3) The document advocates for an open pedagogy approach where students collaborate and connect learning beyond the classroom. It suggests rethinking traditional course elements like required texts, schedules, assignments, and grading to take an open and learner-centered approach.
Developing literacies of open: across an institution and beyondStuart Nicol
ALT-C presentation, 8th September 2016 by Stuart Nicol
This presentation discusses a number of related initiatives at the University of Edinburgh in the context of supporting communities within the institution to acclimatise to the changing 'semiotic landscape' and shifting 'materiality of literacy' brought about by the technologies and policies of open education.
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2016/sessions/developing-literacies-of-open-across-an-institution-and-beyond-1424/
Learning the Hard Way: Lessons in Designing OER in, for and through PartnershipOEPScotland
This document discusses opening educational practices in Scotland through developing open educational resources in partnership. It provides an overview of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project, which aims to enhance Scotland's capacity for open education by facilitating partnerships to develop online educational materials. The document then discusses the development process, including exploring partners' needs, designing courses collaboratively, producing content, and issues around roles and responsibilities. It provides a case study of developing an open online course with a health charity and discusses emerging lessons learned.
Living the Good Life: How to Equip Students for Off-Campus Living Through Edu...Emily Hagan-Howe
Presented at the 2017 International Town-Gown Conference.
This presentation reviews the University of Vermont’s off-campus living workshop model. The following areas will be discussed: the large format, in-person version of the workshop; customized versions developed in collaboration with campus partners to address the needs of specific communities; an online module that allows students to access this information at their own pace; and assessment data regarding student learning and behavior change. Attendees will leave with a template for creating, refining, or expanding their own off-campus living workshop, including identifying resources currently available in their home community.
Wikipedia, Wikimedia UK and Higher Education: Developments in the UKlisbk
Slides for a talk on "Wikipedia, Wikimedia UK and Higher Education: Developments in the UK" given by Brian Kelly, Cetis at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Belgrade, Serbia on 24 March 2014.
Note that due to the talk being limited to 15 minutes rather than the 45 minutes originally expected only a summary version of these slides was presented,
For further information see http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-serbia-2014/
In June, Campus Manitoba was at The University of Winnipeg to talk to faculty and librarians about open educational resources. We would like to thank The University of Winnipeg community for providing this opportunity.
Intro to OER Workshop for Instructors: Berkeley City CollegeDomi Enders
The document summarizes a workshop about using Open Educational Resources (OER) at Berkeley City College. The goals of the 2015 OER pilot project are to reduce student costs, support faculty/staff, and promote adoption of OER. OER are free educational resources with some copyright permissions allowing reuse. Examples include open textbooks from OpenStax and curated resources. Initiatives like the California Open Textbook Initiative aim to increase OER use. The Open Education Consortium supports OER adoption at community colleges. Berkeley City College will provide curated OER and tools to help faculty incorporate resources into their courses.
A presentation exploring the place of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in a Higher Education context by Laura Czerniewicz and Sukaina Walji from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town. Presented at Stellenbosch University Auxin Seminar.
The document discusses MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and potential uses of MOOCs. It provides an overview of a seminar on using MOOCs, including definitions of key MOOC concepts and categories of MOOCs. Six potential uses of MOOCs are described: as open educational resources, as part of prescribed tasks, in flipped classrooms, for bridging purposes, as wrapped courses with facilitation, and through partnerships. Examples and survey results from participants are given regarding experiences with and recommendations of MOOCs.
Exploring the digtial_university_alt-scotland_june_2014Sheila MacNeill
This document discusses the concept of a digital university. It begins by quoting sources that discuss the impact of digital technologies on higher education and the emergence of new models of universities that exploit digital opportunities. It then outlines some key themes of a digital university, including digital participation, information literacy, learning environments, and curriculum design. It presents a "digital university matrix" that maps these themes. It provides two case studies, one from Edinburgh Napier University about establishing a working group to explore digital futures, and one from Glasgow Caledonian University about developing their digital strategy in line with their mission and vision. It proposes a consultation day to discuss institutional experiences and aspirations regarding digital participation and technologies in learning and teaching.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on open educational resources and open textbooks. It discusses the high cost of traditional textbooks, how open textbooks can help address this issue by being freely available online and in low-cost print versions. It describes how faculty can adapt open textbooks to fit their needs and how one college saw improved student outcomes and savings after adopting an open psychology textbook. The presentation promotes open education initiatives in British Columbia that aim to increase the use of open textbooks through faculty reviews, adaptations and collaborative writing sprints.
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.
This document discusses MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their relevance for organizations. It defines MOOCs and outlines UCT's strategy for offering MOOCs, which aims to position UCT as a world-class university, promote African scholarship, share learning globally, and apply lessons to degree courses. Challenges of MOOCs like limited internet access are addressed. Case studies show how businesses and governments use MOOCs for skills training. Emerging models blend MOOCs with formal courses. MOOCs offer opportunities but require consideration of digital literacy and content suitability.
Slides for a workshop session on "Preparing for Tomorrow’s World: Helping University Information Services Respond to Technological, Economic and Political Change" facilitated by Brian Kelly at the Information Services 2014 conference held on 24 June 2014 at the University of Brighton.
For further information see
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/preparing-for-tomorrows-world/
Presentation by the OCW Consortium to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries. Describes the OER and OCW movements and their relation to the values and work of university libraries.
Overview of open educational resources for university libraries, relating the vision and mission of OER to the Open Access movement in libraries worldwide. Presentation to the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries by the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
1) The document introduces open educational resources (OER) which are teaching, learning, and research materials that can be freely used and modified. OER include full courses, textbooks, videos, and other education tools and materials.
2) It notes that college textbook costs have increased dramatically, rising over 800% since 1978 and 3.2 times the rate of inflation. Using OER can help reduce costs for students.
3) The document advocates for an open pedagogy approach where students collaborate and connect learning beyond the classroom. It suggests rethinking traditional course elements like required texts, schedules, assignments, and grading to take an open and learner-centered approach.
Developing literacies of open: across an institution and beyondStuart Nicol
ALT-C presentation, 8th September 2016 by Stuart Nicol
This presentation discusses a number of related initiatives at the University of Edinburgh in the context of supporting communities within the institution to acclimatise to the changing 'semiotic landscape' and shifting 'materiality of literacy' brought about by the technologies and policies of open education.
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2016/sessions/developing-literacies-of-open-across-an-institution-and-beyond-1424/
Learning the Hard Way: Lessons in Designing OER in, for and through PartnershipOEPScotland
This document discusses opening educational practices in Scotland through developing open educational resources in partnership. It provides an overview of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project, which aims to enhance Scotland's capacity for open education by facilitating partnerships to develop online educational materials. The document then discusses the development process, including exploring partners' needs, designing courses collaboratively, producing content, and issues around roles and responsibilities. It provides a case study of developing an open online course with a health charity and discusses emerging lessons learned.
Living the Good Life: How to Equip Students for Off-Campus Living Through Edu...Emily Hagan-Howe
Presented at the 2017 International Town-Gown Conference.
This presentation reviews the University of Vermont’s off-campus living workshop model. The following areas will be discussed: the large format, in-person version of the workshop; customized versions developed in collaboration with campus partners to address the needs of specific communities; an online module that allows students to access this information at their own pace; and assessment data regarding student learning and behavior change. Attendees will leave with a template for creating, refining, or expanding their own off-campus living workshop, including identifying resources currently available in their home community.
Wikipedia, Wikimedia UK and Higher Education: Developments in the UKlisbk
Slides for a talk on "Wikipedia, Wikimedia UK and Higher Education: Developments in the UK" given by Brian Kelly, Cetis at the Eduwiki 2014 conference in Belgrade, Serbia on 24 March 2014.
Note that due to the talk being limited to 15 minutes rather than the 45 minutes originally expected only a summary version of these slides was presented,
For further information see http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/eduwiki-serbia-2014/
In June, Campus Manitoba was at The University of Winnipeg to talk to faculty and librarians about open educational resources. We would like to thank The University of Winnipeg community for providing this opportunity.
Intro to OER Workshop for Instructors: Berkeley City CollegeDomi Enders
The document summarizes a workshop about using Open Educational Resources (OER) at Berkeley City College. The goals of the 2015 OER pilot project are to reduce student costs, support faculty/staff, and promote adoption of OER. OER are free educational resources with some copyright permissions allowing reuse. Examples include open textbooks from OpenStax and curated resources. Initiatives like the California Open Textbook Initiative aim to increase OER use. The Open Education Consortium supports OER adoption at community colleges. Berkeley City College will provide curated OER and tools to help faculty incorporate resources into their courses.
A presentation exploring the place of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in a Higher Education context by Laura Czerniewicz and Sukaina Walji from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town. Presented at Stellenbosch University Auxin Seminar.
The document discusses MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and potential uses of MOOCs. It provides an overview of a seminar on using MOOCs, including definitions of key MOOC concepts and categories of MOOCs. Six potential uses of MOOCs are described: as open educational resources, as part of prescribed tasks, in flipped classrooms, for bridging purposes, as wrapped courses with facilitation, and through partnerships. Examples and survey results from participants are given regarding experiences with and recommendations of MOOCs.
Exploring the digtial_university_alt-scotland_june_2014Sheila MacNeill
This document discusses the concept of a digital university. It begins by quoting sources that discuss the impact of digital technologies on higher education and the emergence of new models of universities that exploit digital opportunities. It then outlines some key themes of a digital university, including digital participation, information literacy, learning environments, and curriculum design. It presents a "digital university matrix" that maps these themes. It provides two case studies, one from Edinburgh Napier University about establishing a working group to explore digital futures, and one from Glasgow Caledonian University about developing their digital strategy in line with their mission and vision. It proposes a consultation day to discuss institutional experiences and aspirations regarding digital participation and technologies in learning and teaching.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on open educational resources and open textbooks. It discusses the high cost of traditional textbooks, how open textbooks can help address this issue by being freely available online and in low-cost print versions. It describes how faculty can adapt open textbooks to fit their needs and how one college saw improved student outcomes and savings after adopting an open psychology textbook. The presentation promotes open education initiatives in British Columbia that aim to increase the use of open textbooks through faculty reviews, adaptations and collaborative writing sprints.
The document summarizes the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to promote open educational resources in British Columbia by developing open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year courses. It provides statistics on the project's success in creating over 50 open textbooks across multiple institutions, with estimated student savings of over $915,000. The project also supports faculty reviews and adaptations of open textbooks to increase adoption.
eCampus Alberta Operational Retreat Open Education workshopClint Lalonde
This document provides an overview of open education and open educational resources (OER). It defines various aspects of open education including open access, open data, open source software, open admissions, open scholarship, and open educational resources. It discusses how digital technologies enable openness and how copyright can also restrict openness. The document explores open pedagogy and provides examples of open educational resources from different repositories. It also discusses Creative Commons licenses and the 5R framework for openly licensed works. Overall, the document serves to introduce open education and provide foundational information about openly licensed content and practices.
The document discusses open textbook collaboration between British Columbia and Manitoba, including how Manitoba faculty can receive $250 for reviewing open textbooks in their subject areas through a structured review process, with the goal of improving access to free or low-cost learning materials for post-secondary students in both provinces. Open textbooks can help address the high cost of traditional textbooks which poses financial barriers for students and can negatively impact learning outcomes.
You built an open textbook in how many days?Clint Lalonde
This document describes a book sprint where a group of educators created an open textbook in geography in just 5 days. It discusses what a textbook sprint is, the context of the BC Open Textbook Project, and provides details on what the group did each day. It also shares what was learned, including benefits like focus and collaboration, challenges like lack of background materials, and lessons like needing more preparation time. The summary provides a high-level overview of the key activities and outcomes of this textbook sprint event.
This document discusses open textbooks and textbook affordability. It notes that textbook costs are a major financial burden for students and can impact learning outcomes. Open textbooks are presented as a solution, as they are available online for free or at low cost, and can be adapted and customized. The document outlines a project between British Columbia and Manitoba to have faculty review and provide feedback on open textbooks to help improve quality and adoption. Faculty will be paid $250 per review to evaluate textbooks against a standard rubric. The goal is to increase access to affordable, high-quality open educational resources for post-secondary students.
GOING OPEN: The Case for OER & Open PoliciesCable Green
This document discusses the case for open educational resources (OER) and open policies. It notes that textbook costs have risen much faster than inflation and tuition, putting financial pressure on students. OER provide free and openly licensed alternatives to traditional textbooks. They can be customized, translated, and made accessible. The document advocates for publicly funded educational resources to be openly licensed as well. It provides examples of open policies from the White House and California community colleges. Overall, the document makes the argument that OER and open policies can help reduce costs for students and increase access to educational materials.
Adopting an open textbook: It doesn’t need to be all or nothing BCcampus
This document discusses adopting open textbooks for college courses. It begins with an overview of open textbooks and their benefits, such as being freely available. It then discusses the history of open educational resources and provides examples of where open textbooks are used. Reasons for adopting open textbooks given by faculty and students include lowering costs and improving access and updating. Survey results from BC show increasing adoption of open textbooks at public post-secondary institutions there, with estimated savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The document concludes by discussing options for faculty considering adopting open textbooks, from full adoption to partial use, and resources for finding open textbooks.
Open Textbook Project: a presentation for the Canadian Association of Researc...BCcampus
The British Columbia Open Textbook Project aims to increase access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs. It has created 40 open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year courses. The project has expanded to include open educational resources and professional development for faculty. A group of BC librarians called BCOER collaborates on projects like an OER assessment rubric and subject guides to support faculty adoption of open educational resources.
The British Columbia Open Textbook Project aims to increase access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs. It has created 40 open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year courses. The project has expanded to include open educational resources and professional development for faculty. A group of BC librarians called BCOER collaborates on projects like an OER assessment rubric and subject guides to support faculty adoption of open educational resources.
The BC Open Textbook Project: More than Saving Students Money.
In the fall of 2012, the BC Ministry of Advanced Education announced funding to support the development of open textbooks. The primary goal of the project is to save post-secondary students money by promoting the adoption of free, open textbooks. But there are additional goals and benefits of the open textbook project that will benefit the post-secondary system in BC and beyond. In this presentation, Clint Lalonde from BCcampus will give an update on the BC Open Textbook project, and talk about some of the other open educational goals of the project that go beyond saving students money.
This document summarizes a presentation about the BC Open Textbook Project. The project aims to connect the expertise, programs and resources of BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative framework. It has three phases: 1) Launch open textbooks in high-enrollment subjects, 2) Adapt existing open textbooks to the BC context, and 3) Create new open textbooks from scratch. The project expects to improve access to education by reducing student costs and improve learning outcomes. It also enables faculty collaboration on open educational resources.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for ITCNetworkUna Daly
This document summarizes an October 11, 2016 presentation by Una Daly of the Open Education Consortium about open educational resources (OER). The presentation defined OERs, discussed how adopting OERs can reduce costs and improve access and engagement for students, and outlined the steps faculty can take to discover, adopt, and sustain the use of OERs in their courses. Key points included that OERs are teaching materials that are free to use and adapt, textbook prices have risen over 80% in 12 years, and studies have found OER adoptions impact over 100,000 students with equal or better outcomes at a savings of millions of dollars.
The document summarizes the BC OpenTextbook Project which aims to create and promote open educational resources (OER) in British Columbia. It discusses the high cost of textbooks which poses financial barriers for students and can impact learning outcomes. OER such as open textbooks can help address this by providing free and customizable online content. The BC OpenTextbook Project has received $2 million in funding to develop 40 open textbooks for high-enrollment subjects and 20 for skills training to increase access to post-secondary education.
This webinar was presented to Manitoba faculty interested in learning about open textbooks, and reviewing open textbooks in the Campus Manitoba collection. This presentation was part of the collaboration between the BC Open Textbook Project and Campus Manitoba.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
Cccoer Webinar Find and Adopt Open TextbooksUna Daly
This document summarizes presentations from three organizations working on open textbooks: BCcampus, OpenStax College, and the California OER Council. BCcampus has developed over 60 open textbooks for the British Columbia higher education system, saving students an estimated $305,000. OpenStax College has created free online and low-cost print textbooks for high-enrollment courses that are adopted at over 800 schools worldwide. The California OER Council works to promote open educational resources and adoption among California community colleges.
BCcampus is a publicly funded organization in British Columbia that works to promote open education and collaboration between post-secondary institutions. It manages projects like the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to develop open textbooks for the highest enrolled subjects to reduce student costs. Open textbooks are freely available online and can be customized by faculty. Studies show that open textbooks lead to equal or better learning outcomes for students compared to traditional textbooks, while saving students thousands in costs.
Keynote ACE / UPCEA (San Diego) #sols14Cable Green
This document presents the business and policy case for open educational resources (OER). It discusses the growing global demand for higher education and rising student debt levels, as well as how digital technologies allow for near-zero marginal costs of copying and distributing educational content. OER such as open textbooks, courseware, and other materials are presented as a way to increase access and affordability for students. The document outlines several open policy proposals, such as requiring openly licensed materials from publicly funded education projects. It argues that when the cost of sharing educational resources is near zero, educators and governments have an ethical obligation to share such resources openly to maximize social impact and return on investment.
This document summarizes a presentation by Amanda Coolidge from BCcampus about their Open Textbook Project. The presentation discusses the high cost of textbooks for students, which can impact their course selections and success. It then introduces the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to create 60 open textbooks and ancillary resources to save students money. The project has three phases: harvesting and reviewing existing open resources, adapting/improving existing materials, and creating new open textbooks. So far the project has resulted in 62 open textbooks being adopted at 8 institutions, with estimated student savings of over $305,000.
Faculty attitudes towards OER and open textbooks in British Columbia and Beyond Beck Pitt
"Faculty attitudes towards OER and open textbooks in British Columbia and Beyond" (with Christina Hendricks, Rajiv Jhangiani and Clint Lalonde) was presented at OpenEd 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia on 19 November 2015.
You can read the full report here: http://open.bccampus.ca/2016/01/18/new-study-exploring-faculty-use-of-oer-at-bc-institutions/
Credit and Collaboration in MOOCs: Where are we now?tbirdcymru
This presentation provides examples of collaboration and credit opportunities with MOOCs from around the world. It discusses scenarios where universities collaborate on developing and offering shared MOOCs, increasing enrollment for both, and how MOOCs can help non-traditional students earn credit to apply for degrees. Examples highlighted include collaborations between multiple institutions on FutureLearn courses and an online master's program partnership between Georgia Tech, Udacity, and AT&T.
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
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1. Working Together for Students
Open Textbook Collaboration
BC and Manitoba
Campus Manitoba
University of Winnipeg
December 1, 2015
Photo: IMG_4590 by Tom Woodward CC-BY-NC
Presentation deck adapted from BCcampus Working Together for Students slides CC-BY license
2. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution
License.
Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all
of this presentation with attribution.
3. 1. Introduction
2. What are open textbooks?
3. Manitoba initiative (website demo)
4. Questions
4. Access to higher education is at the heart of everything we do.
Manitoba’s post-secondary sector is committed to higher education - the creation, dissemination, and
preservation of knowledge. As such, our purpose is to expand access and connect students to the
opportunities that higher education offers.
TransferMB
Campus Manitoba
Virtual Help Desk (VHD) Navigators
7. “The cardinal lesson is that
prices rise unchecked if the
people who order the goods
aren’t paying the prices.”
The $250 Econ 101 Textbook, Craig Richardson, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 13, 2015
8. How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
9. How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
What is going on here?
10. Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. PIRG
Cover image: Center for Public Interest Research used under CC-BY 4.0 license
65% students
have not purchased a
textbook for a course
during their academic
career because
of price.
11. What are Open Textbooks?
A textbook licensed under an open
copyright license, and made available
online to be freely used by students,
teachers and members of the public.
They are available for free as online and
electronic versions, or as low-cost
printed versions, should students opt for
these.
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12. The 5 R’s of Open
November 30, 2015
Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David
Wiley released under CC-BY license
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• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License
CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
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Faculty have full legal rights to
customize & contextualize open
textbooks to fit their pedagogical
needs.
15. Where do open textbooks come
from?
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21. • $250 per review
• 25 reviews from Manitoba
• To qualify: teaching in the subject
area at an approved Manitoba
institution
• Reviews published alongside the
book in both Manitoba and BC sites
• Reviews done against standard
rubric – both qualitative and
quantitative
• Reviews are released with a CC-
BY-ND (No Derivative) licenses
• 3 months to do a review
• No print copies of books. Electronic
versions.
Open
Textbook
Reviews
27. Step 4: Display and payment
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• Once submitted, displays 24 hours later on both sites
• Automatically triggers payment notification to BCcampus
• Contacted by BCcampus for mailing address and additional info
• Cheques issued and mailed by SFU
• 6-8 weeks
31. open.campusmanitoba.com
Dave Neale
Executive Director
Kathleen Fehr
Special Projects Coordinator
Trent Gill
Virtual Helpdesk Navigator
QUESTIONS
?
Webinar: Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative
Thursday, December 3, 1:30pm
Register:
open.campusmanitoba.com/webinar-registration
Editor's Notes
We will have a question period at the end.
What we do
We’re a consortium of post-secondary institutions in Manitoba.
Our purpose is to expand access to higher education offers.
Here are the ways we do that:
eCampusManitoba.com (live)
Is a website that provides single access to the broad range of online courses hosted by our partner institutions.
Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative (live)
This is our main topic today so more on that in a bit
The goal of the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative is to raise awareness of openly licensed textbooks (and open educational resources) in Manitoba.
TransferMB (to be launched in Spring 2016)
We will be launching a website that will facilitate student mobility between institutions by providing accessible information on post-secondary transfer credit on a course-by-course and block transfer level.
Student Advocate (live)
Mandated by the Government of Manitoba, the Student Advocate provides confidential advice to students who have questions and concerns about the assessment of transfer credit and the recognition of prior learning (RPL) at Manitoba’s universities and colleges.
Set Your Course (to be launched next week, Dec 15)
It’s a launching point for prospective post-secondary students
It will show them the various educational pathways and career opportunities that are available in Manitoba.
Virtual Help Desk (VHD) Navigators
Our services are all online to provide students information when and where they need it, but should they get stuck, we have our Virtual Help Desk Navigators
They are available through chat, email or phone to answer questions.
I’m here to talk about Open Textbooks but I wanted to show you that video to show you that textbooks are just one part of this world of Open Educational Resources.
As mentioned in the video, tuition costs are rising and textbooks are expensive.
The rise in textbooks are exponentially greater than consumer goods.
The reason for this… [next slide]
…Is, analysts say, because students are “captive consumers”
Which mean the consumer does not decide which product to buy, rather it is chosen for them, similar to how a doctor prescribes a given pharmaceutical.
So the rise in prices remain unchecked.
But the problem isn’t just about the cost.
There are pedagogical implications to high textbook costs.
In 2001, here’s the breakdown of textbooks bought, and we can see that students either bought them new or used.
In 2013, students have more choices. They rented, perhaps borrowed.
But although there were more alternatives, there seems to be a gap.
A study was done about this and it shows that students are not acquiring the textbooks at all.
In this study, 65% of students admitted that there was a point in their academic career that they didn’t buy a textbook for a course because of price.
So that poses a problem – when students start out or go through the course without the resources they need.
Other issues with textbooks are that they are :
Limited – textbooks are typically only available in print format, which limits how the content is accessed, stored, and used.
Fixed/One size fits all – they are produced for a very general audience; it does not necessarily accommodate unique experiences that students get in different classes with different instructors.
Restrictions on sharing and use – a textbook’s form of copyright quite simply limits the extent it can be used and shared as an educational aid.
These problems suggest there are better ways for students to get this information.
Anything that puts limits on how many and how much students can learn is an obstacle worth considering.
No solution is perfect, but there are opportunities to use learning resources that are equally effective and more easily acquired than traditional textbooks.
Hewlett Foundation definition of OER: “Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.”
The term was first adapted at a UNESCO Forum on the “Impact of Open Courseware on Global Learning.”
Although educators are becoming increasingly aware of open licenses and how they can affect education, it’s still considered a recent phenomenon. It has really only gained momentum recently, and there’s more work to be done in terms of awareness, adoption, and creation.
Open means open to all
Resemble commercial counterpart; different licenses
Many already exist
Quality is comparable
The R’s are the rights and characteristics that openly licensed content gives the users. Any resource that purports to have an open license must grant some or all of these rights. The copyrighted work grants the user free and continuous permission to use the content in all of these different ways.
It used to be 4 R’s, but “Retain” has been added.
Explain the R concepts, with examples.
Here’s a summary of the open licenses available through Creative Commons.
CC-BY: Attribution – This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
CC-BY-ND: Attribution No Derivatives – This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
CC-BY-SA: Attribution Share Alike – This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
CY-BY-NC: Attribution Non-Commercial – This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
CC-BY-NC-SA: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
Intellectual Property Rights remain with the author. The author can defend any abusive or unauthorized use of their work. [Dave help me!]
OpenStax is the premier provider. They don’t have many but they are really high quality.
Because of the potential student savings and other benefits of open textbooks, we saw its potential to contribute to our purpose at Campus Manitoba: expanding access to higher education. So we wanted to raise awareness of Open Education Resources here in Manitoba. As we looked into it and did some research, we learned about the BC Open Textbook Project.
The BC Open Textbook project was launched in 2012.
The goal of the project is to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the province.
This year, they fulfilled that goal and found or created textbooks that align with all top 40 subjects, with multiple textbooks for many of the areas available in their collection.
Their open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons license, and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or print on demand books available at cost.
To date, here are their results.
19 out of the 23 institutions in BC have adopted at least one textbook in their collection.
[mention hand-outs]
We certainly did not want to reinvent the wheel, so we partnered up with them to initiate the MB Open Textbook Initiative.
You can say that we adapted their website - another example of a resource that has the CC-BY attribution license. We were able to take their website and redesign and remix.
The Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative was announced by Minister Allum on September 11, 2015. We partnered with BCcampus to develop our website and launched it on October 1, 2015. The website was developed in 3 weeks!
Our website encompasses all of BCcampus’ collection of textbooks and their peer reviews that are published alongside them. Anytime a book is added to the BC collection, it also gets added to the MB site. Currently there are 136 textbooks available.
Start Demo here of Find a Textbook and Adopt a Textbook.
After Demo of “Find Textbook” and “Adopt Textbook”, continue here.
We would like these resources to be peer-reviewed to assess the quality of open textbooks so faculty (and the public) can rely on them as educational resources.
Max 2 reviews per individual
BCcampus facilitates the reviews on our behalf. Once we receive the application form, they provide instructions and a unique link to complete your review online.
Once you get that link, you can download the book and begin your review.
You have 3 months to complete your review.
10 in progress at ACC. Textbooks being reviewed include:
Adult Literacy Fundamentals Mathematics 1, 3 and 4
Geographic Information System Basics
Project Management
Anatomy and Physiology
Principles of Marketing and; Introducing Marketing
Line C: Tools and Equipment Competency C-1: Describe Common Hand Tools and Their Uses
Line D: Organizational Skills Competency D-2: Apply Science Concepts to Trades Applications
Human Resources Management
2 in progress at RRC. Textbooks being reviewed include Biology and Analytical Chemistry 2.0
Translations
Adaptations (ie. adapt the BC Geography book for a Manitoba one)
Development of ancillary resources such as exams and tests