A presentation at the CTLT Institute (Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology) at the University of British Columbia, June 2014

1. Teaching and Learning in the Open:
Why/Not?
Christina Hendricks, CTLT Institute, June 5, 2014
Presentation licensed CC-BY
4.0:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
4.0/

2. Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
• State and explain several ways that one can engage
in open education without creating an entire MOOC
• Explain at least two open ed projects going on at
UBC right now
• List benefits and possible drawbacks to at least two
open educational activities
• Discuss whether you might want to incorporate any
aspect of open education in your own teaching and
learning, and if so, how

3. Openness generally
• Open source (software)
• Open access
• Open data
• Open government
• Open business
• Open schools
• Open education, open educational resources
See, e.g., http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open

4. Open access vs other “open”
• Open access: free to view, to read, sometimes to
download and print and redistribute
 “open like a museum”
• The four “R’s” of open content and open educational
resources, acc to David Wiley http://is.gd/uEC3hj
 Reuse
 Revise
 Remix
 Redistribute
 [A new 5th R] Retain the right to make, own, control copies
http://is.gd/5DHqCn

5. Group discussion & wiki
Given what’s been said so far, what sorts of activities
do you think might count as “open education”?
Go to the wiki page loaded on the laptop on your table,
click on your group page, log in, and type in your
answers to this question.
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Teaching_and_Learning_in
_the_Open

6. Survey answers
Answers to the question of what counts as “open
education” were given on a small survey I did in
May:
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Teaching_and_Learning_in_the
_Open/SurveyResponses

7. UBC & (BC) Open Ed Panel
• Maja Krzic
• Judy Chan
• Jon Festinger
• Jon Beasley-Murray
• Amanda Coolidge (BC Campus)
See the “resources” list on our wiki page for more
information and links on what they are speaking
about
wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Teaching_and_Learning_in_the_
Open/

8. Creative Commons Licenses
UBC Copyright’s webpage on Creative Commons has
a good overview of what CC is, and the various
types of licenses:
http://copyright.ubc.ca/help-and-resources/creative-
commons-guide/
You can also go to the source:
http://creativecommons.org
Sample license on a blog:
http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks

9. Benefits/drawbacks/obstacles
In your group, choose two or more open educational
activities from the lists generated for the first
question on the wiki.
For each of those activities, write on your wiki page
(under the second question):
 any possible benefits you can see from engaging in them
 potential drawbacks or obstacles to people doing so

10. Survey answers
Answers to benefits and drawbacks/obstacles of open
education from the small survey done in May 2014
can be found on our wiki page:
http://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:Teaching_and_Learning_in_the
_Open/SurveyResponses

11. What might you do?
For the rest of the time we have, discuss in your
groups whether you might consider engaging in any
open educational activities yourself in the future, and
if so, what.
When you’re finished, please fill out the evaluation
form for the session (located on the table).
THANK YOU!!