DOING PHILOSOPHY IN THE OPEN: WHY/NOT?

Christina Hendricks, Univ. of British Columbia

American Association of Philosophy Teachers Meeting

August 1, 2014

Slides available here: http://is.gd/openphilslides

Presentation licensed CC-BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learning ObjectivesBy the end of the session, you should be able to

• State and explain several ways that one can engage in open education (without creating an entire MOOC)

• List benefits and possible drawbacks to at least two open educational activities

• Explain whether you might engage in any open ed activities in future, and if so, what/why

Openness generally• Open source (software)• Open access• Open peer review• Open data• Open government• Open business• Open education, open educational resources (OER)

See, e.g. http://p2pfoundation.net/Openness

Open access vs more “open”

Open access: free to view/read, sometimes to download and print and redistribute

“Open like a museum”

A Day at the Museum 2, Flickr photo shared by Robert Couse-Baker, licensed CC-BY 2.0

Open access vs more “open”• The four “R’s” of open content, acc to David Wiley http://is.gd/uEC3hj• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute• [A new 5th R] Retain right to make, own, control copies (e.g., download, duplicate, store, manage) [indefinitely] http://is.gd/5DHqCn

Group discussionPlease discuss in groups:

1. Given what’s been said so far, what sorts of activities do you think might fall under “open education”?

2. Do you engage in any of these yourself or know someone who does?

If possible, please type in your answers under your group’s heading on this Google doc: http://is.gd/openphilgrps

Survey answersI did a small survey in May 2014 asking people what open education is, benefits & potential drawbacks/obstacles.

Results: http://is.gd/openedsurvey

Open Edu examplesCampus courses open to anyone to follow/join:

• Social Media & Open Ed grad course at U of Regina (Saskatchewan): http://eci831.ca/

• Arts One Open (U of British Columbia, Vancouver): http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca

• Open Online High School Phil course in BC, Canada: http://talonsphilosophy.wordpress.com/

Open Edu examplesMaking course materials freely available & reusable• Some institutions make entire courses available, e.g.• MIT Open courseware• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative• Search open courses by OEConsortium

• Some faculty members make materials available on websites (mine: here and here)

• Can search or contribute to OER repositories, e.g., MERLOT, Solvonauts, OER Commons

Creative Commons LicensesWays to indicate to others how they can use your materials w/o asking permission

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Nice video explaining CC & different licenses: http://creativecommons.org/videos/creative-commons-kiwi

Benefits/drawbacks/obstaclesIn your group, choose two or more open educational activities from Gdoc: http://is.gd/openphilgrps

Please discuss, & write on doc if you can:• Any possible benefits you can see from engaging in these open ed activities

• Potential drawbacks or obstacles to people doing so

• Whether you might consider doing any of these yourself & why/why not

Thank you!

Reminder:

These slides are available to view, download, remix, reuse here: http://is.gd/openphilslides

Christina Hendricks

http://blogs.ubc.ca/christinahendricks (website)

http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks (blog)

Twitter: @clhendricksbc