OPENNESS IN HIGHER

EDUCATION: UNDERSTANDING

THE CHALLENGE AND

OPPORTUNITY

Empire State College

Michele Ogle

Assistant Area Coordinator and Math Faculty, Science, Math and Technology Area

Email: Michele.Ogle@esc.edu

Kathleen Stone

Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design, Science, Math and Technology Area

Email: Kathleen.Stone@esc.edu

INTRODUCTION TO OPENNESS IN EDUCATION

• Open course taught by David Wiley.

• 12 topics to work through and blog about.

• Once completed the work is assessed by Dr. Wiley

to earn a badge.

• We incorporated a face-to-face component.

• Course content at openeducation.us

DISCUSSION QUESTION

How do you define "open"?

OPEN TOPICS

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Image created by Hui-Ya (Laura) Chuang

HOW DO WE INTEGRATE THE USE OF OER

INTO ONLINE COURSES?

• Examples from Math Courses

• Images

• Video lectures

• Differential Equations – lectures on particular topics on

professor’s web page

• Discrete Math, Real Analysis – Proofs examples uploaded to

YouTube

• Animations / Simulations

• Calculus – projectile motion with calculations

• Discrete Math – testing sorting methods

• GenEd math – similar triangles, polygoncircle (limit)

• Open access journal articles

• Tutorial collections to support technology (multi-mode)

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FACED

WITH USING OER?

• Licensing can be complex

• Links can go inactive

• Need for vetting external OERs

• Need strategy for using in courses

• Monitor links

• Track details of content, license, audience of OERs

• Back-up plan for “lost” resources

• Storage

• Creating OER implies that an open site is available for

others to access the resource

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Creative Commons: The 6 Licenses

http://creativecommons.org

Try your hand at the licensing game! Go to

http://indstudy1.org/univ/355460515034/Flash/Lesson2/PracticeVersion.html

WHERE DO I FIND OER?

Some places to start your search for content:

• http://search.creativecommons.org/

• http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_ver

sion_one

• http://www.oercommons.org/

WHERE DO I FIND OER?

Consider creating content and sharing it as well! A

great place to start is by creating a user page at

http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

Our taskforce has a WikiEducator page! Here you will

find links to our blogs, presentations, a glossary, and

our hands-on version of the OER Licensing game.

http://wikieducator.org/ESC_OER_Taskforce

DISCUSSION QUESTION: ASSESS YOUR

LEARNING

After hearing more about

these topics, has your

definition of "open"

changed?

Image: Marco Bellucci, via Flickr

QUESTIONS

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