This document presents three arguments for open education:
1. Open education better aligns with the philosophical view of education as sharing knowledge for the benefit of all. It allows unprecedented capacity for sharing due to low-cost digital copying and distribution.
2. Open education supports innovation by reducing costs and increasing permissions for experimenting with educational content. It creates an "intellectual infrastructure" that enables everyone to innovate and benefit.
3. Evidence from multiple peer-reviewed studies shows that open educational resources (OER) achieve equal or better student learning outcomes at lower costs. OER adoption has been found to increase student retention, progression, and graduation rates.
Keynote address delivered at the SUNY COTE Summit, February 2015. This talk (1) connects the concepts of democratizing innovation, permissionless innovation, and infrastructure to education, (2) clearly defines "open," briefly reviews research on the student success impacts of using OER, (3) discusses open pedagogy, (4) discusses the ethic of open, and (5) closes with a list of three things faculty can do to start being more open in their practice.
Keynote presentation for Open Apereo 2015 describing the components of the Open Education Infrastructure. Connects Frischmann's work on intellectual infrastructure, Von Hippel's work on democratizing innovation, and Thierer's work on permissionless innovation to learning outcomes, activities and assessments, and other educational resources as the intellectual infrastructure of education necessary to facilitate innovation in education. Defines "open" and discusses the relationship between open and infrastructure.
Keynote address delivered at the SUNY COTE Summit, February 2015. This talk (1) connects the concepts of democratizing innovation, permissionless innovation, and infrastructure to education, (2) clearly defines "open," briefly reviews research on the student success impacts of using OER, (3) discusses open pedagogy, (4) discusses the ethic of open, and (5) closes with a list of three things faculty can do to start being more open in their practice.
Keynote presentation for Open Apereo 2015 describing the components of the Open Education Infrastructure. Connects Frischmann's work on intellectual infrastructure, Von Hippel's work on democratizing innovation, and Thierer's work on permissionless innovation to learning outcomes, activities and assessments, and other educational resources as the intellectual infrastructure of education necessary to facilitate innovation in education. Defines "open" and discusses the relationship between open and infrastructure.
5R Open Course Design Framework, Fall 2015 versionDavid Wiley
A drastically simplified course design framework for use with faculty as they transition from using commercial textbooks in their courses to using open educational resources (OER).
Open Educational Resources: Increasing Student Learning and Academic FreedomDavid Wiley
This brief (30 minute) overview of open educational resources and their benefits was presented to the a meeting of college of business faculty at university in Utah.
Open Educational Resources: Implementation and Impact David Wiley
An introduction to open educational resources, including definition, examples, supporting research, and pedagogical implications. Presented at the ATD DREAM Conference, 23 Feb 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Open: Decreasing Costs, Improving Access, and Increasing Quality of EducationDavid Wiley
While "open educational resources" initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare generated media buzz during the 2000s, a new wave of initiatives is leveraging OER to dramatically decrease the cost, improve access, and increase the quality of secondary and higher education for the average student. This presentation demonstrates how "open" is shaping the field of education, and what is coming in the future.
This talk was delivered at the University of Georgia during March, 2013.
5R Open Course Design Framework, Fall 2015 versionDavid Wiley
A drastically simplified course design framework for use with faculty as they transition from using commercial textbooks in their courses to using open educational resources (OER).
Open Educational Resources: Increasing Student Learning and Academic FreedomDavid Wiley
This brief (30 minute) overview of open educational resources and their benefits was presented to the a meeting of college of business faculty at university in Utah.
Open Educational Resources: Implementation and Impact David Wiley
An introduction to open educational resources, including definition, examples, supporting research, and pedagogical implications. Presented at the ATD DREAM Conference, 23 Feb 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Open: Decreasing Costs, Improving Access, and Increasing Quality of EducationDavid Wiley
While "open educational resources" initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare generated media buzz during the 2000s, a new wave of initiatives is leveraging OER to dramatically decrease the cost, improve access, and increase the quality of secondary and higher education for the average student. This presentation demonstrates how "open" is shaping the field of education, and what is coming in the future.
This talk was delivered at the University of Georgia during March, 2013.
The Portable Z: How Virginia is Scaling the Z-Degree Across Its 23 Colleges ...Achieving the Dream
One advantage of a centralized statewide postsecondary system that shares core infrastructure, policy-making, and governance among diverse institutions is that often, promising innovations are able to scale more easily, and more quickly, than in decentralized systems. The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has just this sort of centralized structure, which is enabling the widespread adoption and use of open educational resources (OER) across the system. Three years ago, only a small fraction of VCCS faculty had heard of OER, with far fewer using open materials in their courses. Today, with support from System Office grants, professional development funds, and local college monies, Virginia's colleges have helped develop over 70 new open courses, with many of these courses being adopted by entire college departments. Led by the pioneering work of Tidewater and Northern Virginia Community Colleges, Virginia already boasts three all-OER associate degrees, or Z-Degrees. Collectively these efforts have not only saved Virginia college students millions of dollars in textbook costs but have increased their chances of academic success.
In April 2015, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded the VCCS a grant to help fund the Zx23 Project. The long-term goal of the Zx23 Project is to identify what factors make a Z-Degree portable from one community college to another in order to eventually scale the model to all 23 Virginia community colleges. To that end, the grant from Hewlett is helping the VCCS to accomplish three initial objectives: (1) Adopt, adapt, and pilot Z-Degree courses across VCCS colleges, (2) establish models for sustaining and supporting future OER infrastructure, and (3) create a "roadmap" to be used by other institutions interested in scaling and sustaining a statewide or system OER infrastructure.
A cohort of sixteen VCCS colleges began work on the Zx23 Project in Summer 2015, with project faculty currently piloting new Z-Degree courses in September and planning courses for the Spring 2016 semester. Lumen Learning, an integral partner in the project, has been working closely with participating colleges to help build degree pathways and common OER practices and infrastructure, and to evaluate the outcomes of the pilots.
The goal of this session is to provide a valuable, on-the-ground report of the early results of this ambitious effort midway through its first year, as well as stimulate conversation and ideas about the project from the broader OER community.
Creating Connections: Collaborations Between Museums and SchoolsJ S-C
This presentation was for the 2015 Association of African American Museums Conference. It addresses the collaborative partnership between the National Civil Rights Museum and the Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School.
Let's Hack School: Learner Agency in a Time of New Technologiesbudtheteacher
In the talk where these slides originated, delivered in March, 2015, at Colorado State University, I discuss some of what I think needs to be thought through when implementing technology and building schools as civic spaces.
I've been teaching entrepreneurship to designers for just over a year now, but I've been amazed at swift and powerful the results are. Designers feel able to participate in hard product discussions, uncover and promote insights to improve the business model and even make better decisions about their personal life, from salary negotiation to budget making. That's bc entrepreneurship is a microcosm of business, simple yet complete. Along with technology and user research, business must be a common core in design education. Entrepreneurship is the best way to do it.
An overview of how change works, and what can be done to accelerate transformational change in an industry. Created for the Openlab Workshop, December 1-2, 2015 in Washington, DC.
If you’re followed #ILA2015 (International Literacy Association) on Twitter, you might have seen that HUNDREDS of tweets were coming in each day. Luckily, we’ve collected the best tweets of the conference for you. Here are the top 24 quotes and nuggets of wisdom that we collected from the conference. Enjoy!
Academic Librarians and OER: Access, Advocacy, and Activism BCcampus
Presentation by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechic University; Caroline Daniels, Librarian, Kwantlen Polytechnic University; and Brenda Smith, Librarian, Thompson Rivers University at the BC Library Association Conference, May 2015 in Richmond BC
Supporting Open Textbook Adoptions - UA CossatotMichelle Reed
“Supporting Open Textbook Adoptions” by Michelle Reed was presented at the University of Arkansas Cossatot on March 15, 2019, and is licensed CC BY. Slides are modified from Open Textbook Network slides prepared by David Ernst and Sarah Cohen. Images are individually licensed as noted.
Let's Make a Plan: An OER Initiative for Your InstitutionRegina Gong
Presentation at the Michigan Academic Library Association (MI-ALA) Annual Conference on May 18, 2017 at Grand Valley State University with Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan College.
Why Open Education? Presentation for Austin Community CollegeLumen Learning
What are open educational resources, and what benefits do they offer students, faculty and educational institutions? This presentation outlines key impacts substantiated in empirical research about how OER provide tremendous benefits including improving student success, saving money for students, increasing revenue for institutions, and enhancing academic freedom for faculty members.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
49. Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Make a copy
of a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distribute
a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
58. Copyright
Regulates
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying
of a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distributing
a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
69. • Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
71. • Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
72.
73. Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable copyright
permissions
74. Open
Permissions
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying
of a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
Distributing
a textbook
$1000s per
copy
$1s per copy $0.0001s per
copy
83. Infrastructure is “resources that
create benefits for society
primarily through the facilitation
of downstream productive
activities.”
-- Brett Frischmann
95. Textbook Pricing in Context
One Month Streaming Access to… Costs…
Netflix – 10k Movies and Episodes $7.99 / month
Hulu Plus – 45k Movies and Episodes $7.99 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $19.67 / month
105. 105
Textbook Costs and Student Success
Outcomes
Six-year
graduation
rate for
open access
institutions
33%
Avg. annual textbook
cost per college
student
$1,200
Costs growing
3x
inflation
Cost
students go without
textbooks due to cost
6 in 10
take fewer
courses
due to
textbook
cost
35%
Access
of community college
students achieve
credential goals
<50%
106. 106
Internet, Textbook Costs, Student Success
Outcomes
Six-year
graduation
rate for
open access
institutions
?%
Avg. annual textbook
cost per college
student
< $50
Costs
dropping
Cost
students go without
textbooks due to cost
0 in 10
take fewer
courses
due to
textbook
cost
0%
Access
of community college
students achieve
credential goals
?%
107.
108. The Impact of Open
Textbooks on Secondary
Science Learning Outcomes
Robinson, Fischer, Hilton, and Wiley
Published in Ed Researcher
110. Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Treatment and Control Group
• Pre and Post Test
• Dependent variable: Score on 2012
statewide standardized science exam
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 15 Covariates: including age, gender,
special education, English language
proficiency, 2011 test data, 2011 GPA, and
race
112. Outcome: State Standardized Test
• IRT scaled scores increased
with open textbooks, p < .001
• Multiple r squared = .635
(variance in scores accounted
for in our model)
113. A Multi-institutional Study of the
Impact of Open Textbook
Adoption on the Learning
Outcomes of Post-secondary
Students
Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley
Accepted in JCHE
115. Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Propensity Score Matching
• Post Test Only
• Dependent variables: Completion; C or
Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Next
Term
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 3 covariates: including age, gender, and
race
122. Mad, Glad, Sad, Rad:
A Framework for Evaluating the
Academic Return on Investment
in Textbooks and Other
Educational Materials
Wiley, Hilton, Fischer, and Puente
Submitted