Open Teaching in a Digital Age‘Openness’ as the default

action of the academic?

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Prepared by:

Michael Paskevicius & Michelle Willmers

The Notion of Academia

• Education is a social service • Education should be about the greater good • Academic is the creator of learning materials

and tools • Internet is changing research and teaching

practice

Sharing doesn’t cost anything anymore

• The internet is creating new channels for collaboration and feedback

• Learning materials are social objects

• Sharing builds networks• Sharing transforms practice• Reach and impact is extended

Do you share a little or share a lot?

• Posted dissertation online – Over 27,500 views

• Image of networked teacher re-appropriated– Translated to multiple languages – Used around the world – Inspired the ‘networked student’

video circulating YouTube

More amazing stories of opennesshttp://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09

A tale of Alex Couros

Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials (usually but not always digital) that are offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some type of license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

Creative Commons: Making OER Possible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko

Questions to Ponder over Licensing

• Did I create this material?• Whose work did I include in my material? • Who do I want to share with?

Plus those famous Creative Commons questions!

• Do you allow commercial uses of your work?

• Do you allow modifications of your work?

Iterations Start simple and let others build on top – Share-Alike

Allow commercial use – Non Commercial

Allow copies only – No Derivatives

Degrees of Openness

Open Scholar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3458534773/

Access, Appropriate, Localisehttp://www.freesound.org/

http://compfight.com/http://www.flickr.com/commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://morguefile.com

http://www.oercommons.org

http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.open-video.orghttp://creativecommons.org/?s=tube

http://oro.open.ac.uk

Questions for Reflection

• In what aspects of your academic life are you not open? Why?

• Does your institution place obstacles to openness?

• What would it take to convince you to be more open?

• What are your concerns?

With inspiration from Martin Weller, Reflections on Openness, http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/reflection-in-openness

Everaldo Coelho, Crystal Project, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear, GNU Lesser General Public License

Erica_Marshall, Remember Cassette Tapes?, http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/2666112988/ CC BY-NC-SA

courosa, Networked Teacher Diagram – Update, http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/ CC BY-NC-SA

stylianosm, Networked Teacher (Greek), http://www.flickr.com/photos/stylianosm/3706684606/, CC BY-SA

wdrexler, Networked Student, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

langwitches, Der Vernetzte Lehrer, http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3459600615/, CC BY-NC-SA

Michael Reschke, OERlogo, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg, Public Domain

Toru Iiyoshi & M. S. Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education, http://mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/, CC BY-NC-ND

Open Indiana University , Screenshot, http://open.iu.edu/

Open MIT, Screenshot, http://ocw.mit.edu/

OER Commons, Screenshot, http://oercommons.org/

Academic Earth, Screenshot, http://academicearth.org/

Jonas De Baere, strange way of building in the City, http://www.flickr.com/photos/70312717@N00/2450028348/, CC BY-NC

NoIdentity, In Series, http://www.flickr.com/photos/22309388@N07/3714080487/, CC BY-NC-ND

langwitches, Networked Teacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3458534773/ CC BY-NC-SA

References: In order of Appearance

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