Going open at the state and district level (#goopen)
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Going Open at the State and District Level Jane Park Director of Platforms & Partnerships Creative Commons @ janedaily
Transcript of Going open at the state and district level (#goopen)
Going Open at the State and District Level
Jane ParkDirector of Platforms & Partnerships
Creative Commons@janedaily
Agenda
• Creative Commons and #GoOpen• 2 U.S. examples of #GoOpen states & districts
– Shift; Challenges; Benefits; Resources• 2 non-U.S. examples of districts going open• Where to get help• Questions?
CC and #GoOpen
• Jane Park - #GoOpen platform advising– Amazon; Microsoft; Edmodo; IOER (IL state)
• Cable Green – Federal, state, district policy advising
• Great diversity across 20 states; 107 districts– Varied in approach, IP policies, procurement policies,
paper vs digital progress, gov. structure• #GoOpen: surfaced common areas of work,
resources, and open policies to keep it open
What does it mean to #GoOpen?
• Less about specific policies; more about the actual shift, a shift in holistic approach at the state level that provides leadership for districts (& vice versa)
• Shift from leasing to procurement of OER• Shift $ spent on content acquisition to
curriculum development/revision, PD, quality assurance, print costs
What really happens?
• State of Louisiana (LA)– Whitney Whealdon, Director of Academic
Content, LA Department of Education• State of Washington (WA)
– Barbara Soots, OER Program Manager, WA Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
LA Before #GoOpen
• Focus was on adoption• State approved list of textbooks and related
materials, mostly books– English LA; Social Studies; Math; Science
• 70 districts had to adopt state’s list, which only changed once every 7 years
• Mostly physical materials, no digital• Top-down, adoption-based system; rigid; outdated
LA Shift to #GoOpen
• Shift started with update to Common Core standards (2013)
• Worked with state legislators to revise system and make it official in state (thru 2015)
• Holistic review and update to 21st century• Focus on new review/rating system to improve
quality and currency of materials
LA Shift to #GoOpen
• Shift from physical to digital • Shift from textbooks to textbooks + new kinds of
materials in different formats• Shift from once every 7 years review to ongoing,
yearly review• Shift from state oversight to state support of
districts• Shift to quality review of both OER & proprietary
materials
LA Focus on Quality
• New system allows districts more freedom, but still safeguards to ensure quality– If they forgo quality list, must do their own
competitive bid process w/all stakeholders• No tier 1 quality materials? LA state created
CC BY materials: English L/A curriculum• Teacher leader program: 3 regional
meetings/year
LA Adoption
• Great success in math– 80% of districts using OER; student improvement seen in math
• First year for ELL, so not much data yet, but over 50% of districts using OER so far
• Anecdotal data: Districts like and are moving to state’s CC BY ELL curriculum; seeing better value/alignment/quality of materials
LA Challenges
• OER without clear provenance• OER curriculum requiring © books, e.g. novels
which still require $• Not a lot of professional dev/support built in
with OER• OER takes tends to take you to multiple places
LA Benefits
• Ability to provide daily feedback and updates to materials (esp in ELL)
• Teachers feel super invested, materials get buy-in
• “Made by teachers for teachers” – authentic to their experience in LA, feels more natural to their rhythm/pace of the classroom
• $ saved? Not yet
What’s next for LA?
• Professional development, training, and support aligned to new materials
• Cont’d focus on quality – high quality curriculum being shown to have huge effect, even more than teachers/class size
• More data as program continues
LA Resources
• English Language Arts Guidebooks (OER Resources for grades 3-12 ELA): http://www.louisianabelieves.com/academics/ela-guidebooks
• Instructional Materials Review (IMR) page: http://www.louisianabelieves.com/academics/ONLINE-INSTRUCTIONAL-MATERIALS-REVIEWS
• District Guidance around IMR: http://www.louisianabelieves.com/docs/default-source/curricular-resources/guidance-for-textbooks-and-instructional-materials-reviews.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Whitney Whealdon
“The legislature finds the state's recent adoption of new learning standards provides an opportunity to develop a library of high-quality, openly licensed K-12 courseware that is aligned with these standards.”
Washington State Capitol by Piutus – CC BY
Washington OER Project
OER Project Website
WA Shift to #GoOpen
• Shift also started with common core: WA state legislature passed bill mandating state DOE create OER aligned to common core WA state standards (2012)
• Districts were actually demanding update to materials, everyone recognized they were outdated and in need of refresh
WA Shift to #GoOpen
• First did a snapshot survey of the state, barriers to implementation– Districts might not recognize OER– Quality of OER and its alignment to new standards– Concerns around tech, access, equity
WA Shift to #GoOpen
• Focus on quality: initiated review of OER according to nationally recognized rubrics (same as other materials)
• Worked w/state school directors association to craft new model policy recognizing OER for new materials adoption (not a mandate)– Shift from physical to digital– Shift from textbooks to textbooks + new kinds of
materials in different formats
WA Shift to #GoOpen
• Online and Outreach support for OER– Hub on OER commons for districts to connect– Online referatory/library with links to all materials– OER summits every year; outreach within districts
• Small grants program (2012 funds earmarked) – Districts developing or adapting OER– Small $, but legitimacy for work, state supported
WA Shift to #GoOpen
At the same time the state was shifting policy for its own resources… • WA statewide education policy requiring
staff/contractor/grantee resources be CC licensed
• WA SBCTC adopted same policy• Served as a model for districts
WA Challenges
• Not a lot of fully coherent OER, lots of supplemental materials
• As districts adopt and/or create their own materials, not enough state staff to help with nuts & bolts of attribution, licensing – so slows process of wide-scale sharing
• $ savings hard to demonstrate b/c K-12 is districts purchasing, not students
WA Benefits
• Cost shifting from content acquisition to professional development for educators– One district created open civics course w/its
teachers, using collaborative process & quality review rubrics
• $ also spent on increasing technology capacity• No real pushback from districts; districts
wanted to update, recognized barriers to traditional textbooks/materials
What’s next for WA?
• More advocacy work about OER• More support to find fully coherent OER, or
build it• Continue to serve as a model for districts and
other states (#GoOpen ambassador district)• More data, e.g. around $ shifting, as program
progresses
WA Resources
• OER project website: http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/
• Open Washington OER Network: http://www.openwa.org
Email Barbara Soots (email in session notes)
Outside the U.S.
• New Zealand: 2,500 K-12 schools– © is held by districts as a policy– CC NZ pitch OER/CC licensing– Districts offering teachers option to CC license OER
they create or adopt/use existing OER– N4L Pond online teacher community for NZ
integrating CC licenses, sharing of OER– http://creativecommons.org.nz/ccinschools/
Outside the U.S.
• United Kingdom: 84 K-12 Leicester schools– Districts own ©– Leicester city council gives permission to all schools
to create and share OER (CC BY)– Guidance and toolkits on how to find, use, remix,
attribute OER– School staff participated in development of these
resources– https://schools.leicester.gov.uk/services/planning-an
d-property/building-schools-for-the-future-bsf/open-education-for-schools/
Where to get help• Kristina Peters, U.S. DOE: https://tech.ed.gov/open • #GoOpen District Launch Packet:
https://tech.ed.gov/open/districts/launch/ • CCSSO: Layla Bonnot• SETDA: Tracy Weeks, Executive Director • CC US - K-12 person TBD; please contact Meredith Jacobs for
now• CC the org - [email protected];
http://creativecommons.org• Barbara and Whitney are also happy to answer questions about
their state’s/districts’ experiences (contact info in session notes)
Fun links
• Why #GoOpen? Why now? https://medium.com/@OfficeofEdTech/why-goopen-why-now-857a9ce2527f
• How open are you? http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/howopenareyou/
Reuse & Remix!
These slides by Creative Commons are licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Slide #15 (“Louisiana Believes”) and #16 (“Washington OER Project”) licensed CC BY 4.0
by LA DOE and WA OSPI respectively.
