The Library is Open Librarians and Information Professionals

as Open Practitioners

Josie Fraser LILAC 10 April 2017@josiefraser

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#YEAROFOPEN

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Happy Year of Open! 15 years ago:• UNESCO adopt the term ‘Open Educational Resources’• The Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched• The first Creative Commons licenses were released10 years ago:• The Cape Town Open Education Declaration was written5 years ago: • The first Open Education Week took place • The first OER World Congress was held, resulting in the Paris OER Declaration

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Justin GrimesLibrary Love (2011) Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC-BY-SA 2.0)

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Mat Fascione St Barnabas Library, Leicester (2007) shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC-BY-SA) licence.

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FraserElliot Yes, We’re Open Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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Numbers of CC Licenced

By Creative commons / 555 (2014) CC BY 4.0

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“Wikipedia is the greatest open educational resource of all time”

- Jim Groom, #oer16

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Spelling out freedoms and restrictions“Open licences, including the Creative Commons licences, provide educators and everyone else with a clear, simple way to specify how resources can be used and reused, and how the work should be credited.”

What does an openly licensed resource look

like?

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Library is Open: Librarians and Information Professionals as Open Practitioners, Josie Fraser LILAC 10 April 2017.

Content is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, unless otherwise indicated.

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What makes an educational resource open? Cable Green (2016): “two conditions that should guide your determination as to whether or not an item is considered ‘open’:• Do you have ‘free and unfettered

access’ to the resource? If you have to pay to retain or use a resource, it isn't open.

• Is use of the resource governed by David Wiley's 5Rs of Openness permissions?”

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The UNESCO 2012 Paris Declaration recommends that member states should:

Foster awareness and use of OER. Promote and use OER to widen access to education at all levels, both formal and non-formal, in a perspective of lifelong learning, thus contributing to social inclusion, gender equity and special needs education. Improve both cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning outcomes through greater use of OER.

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Are open licences enough?

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Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) – LBRY mirror

Cf. Harvard, MIT (2015); Stanford (2016)

Accessibility – degrees of open?

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• Freedom to teach without breaking the law• Ability to use materials that will tell stories

in an unbiased way• The same freedoms for all educators in the

EU• Law that will allow you to embrace digital

opportunities • Law that recognises museums, libraries and

NGOs as having an educational function

https://rightcopyright.eu

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Digital literacy

JISC Digital capacity framework Helen Beetham

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What about open practice?

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“Open educational practices, known as OEP, have a range of definitions. In the narrowest sense, OEP are "practices which support the production, use and reuse of high quality OER" (International Council for Open & Distance Education). A broader view is espoused in the Capetown Open Education Declaration: "Open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues. It may also grow to include new approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning."- GoOPEN Wiki Vivien Rolfe & Catherine Cronin (2015)

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Beetham, H., Falconer, I., McGill, L. and Littlejohn, A. Open practices: briefing paper. JISC, 2012 Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

Wikimedia UK

The British LibraryThe National ArchivesNational Library of ScotlandNational Library of WalesThe Bodleian Libraries, OxfordThe Wellcome Library

Host a wikimedian: you can't afford not to Melissa Highton, University of Edenborough Wikimedia UK Education Summit (2017)

3 Ways to use Wikipedia as an Education ToolMartin Poulter, CILIP (2014)

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“open can improve access and equity…but it can also exacerbate inequality as we know. Openness is negotiated on an individual basis. So open education practice, as I have found in my own work, is always personal, is always contextual, and its always continuously negotiated. So we can be advocates for openness on an social and institutional level, but still be very cognisant of the risks we may be asking people to take when we are advocating for open.”

- Catherine Cronin, OER17 (2017)

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"We try to be inclusive but we fail a lot. We need to design for inclusivity, it doesn't just happen”

- Maha Bali, #OER17 (2017)

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Open practice• Supporting the use and

production of OER• Accessibility• Collaboration• Development• Co-production • Inclusion

• Sustainability• Privacy• Public Value• Flexibility • Customisation/personalisation/relevance• Quality• Legal

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Open keynotePlease tweet using #lilac17op

or head over to http://goo.gl/dr19a8

Question: In what way(s) do you consider your practice, as a librarian or information professional, open?

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Some questions: • Do staff & students understand their own position? • Do staff & students know about OER? • Does the organisation have a policy regarding OER/open

licencing? • Do staff & students understand how to find, evaluate,

acknowledge and reuse OER? • Do staff and the organisation consider open practice in

relation to provision & production?

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Daniel Solis Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like Cutting Hospitals in a Plague (2010) Attribution 2.0 (CC BY)

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Open education is the philosophy of ensuring equity and quality of access to education to all, regardless of gender, economic means, location, disability, age, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or religion Open practice is the act of creating and supporting learning experiences and resources that acknowledge contexts of discrimination and inequality

Open practice is the enactment of equitable, ethical, and sustainable learning experiences and resources

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Thank you!

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