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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenIntroduction
What does openness mean to you?
Who are we?
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Thinking About OpenWhat is open?
Which example resonates best with you?
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Thinking About OpenWhy and how can open make a difference?
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“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range
from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and
animation.” (UNESCO definition)
Source: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
Open Educational Resources?
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• “Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content;
• Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video);
• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language);
• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup);
• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend).” (David Wiley, 5 March 2014)
Source: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
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79.8% of educators adapt OER to suit their needs
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Open Textbooks • On average total textbook costs are around $1200 each year in the United
States • In the United States “…Textbook wholesale prices have risen more than four
times the rate of inflation over the last two decades (1990-2009)” (Student PIRGs research)
• 63% of respondents to the 2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey “…reported not having purchased the required textbook because of the high cost…”
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“In what ways, if any, has using OpenStax College textbooks impacted on your own teaching
practice?”
Source: Pitt (2015) http://www.slideshare.net/BeckPitt/exploring-the-impact-of-open-textbooks-around-the-world
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“I wanted to make sure that there was dual
attribution, so it wasn’t just attributing to GCU, I
wanted the author to have their name on (…) so
they can take [the resources] and evidence the
development and the work they’ve done, and they
can take them with them through their careers”
Marion Kelt, on Glasgow Caledonian University OER policy
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What about Quality?
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“Because I've got a high-quality primary source of information, I've got more time to find supplements, labs, to do activities, and to have discussions with my students. My instructional practice has definitely improved since I'm not having to seek out high-quality sources of information and have a trusted source.” (Educator using OpenStax College textbooks, 2014-5 Survey)
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Thinking About OpenBarriers to Open
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Which challenges, if any, do you most often face in using OER?
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Thinking About Open Making Change Happen
collaboration
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OER Guidance for Schools, DigiLit Project Leicester
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/
Guidance on creating/using OER, GCU
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/copyright/creatingcontent/
OER Impact Map: http://oermap.org#oermap
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Thinking About OpenRound-Up
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Thank you!
We’d love your feedback…
Any questions or comments?
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Further ReadingZ-Degree: • Lumen Learning Success Story: Tidewater Community College: http://lumenlearning.com/success-story-tidewater/• The Hewlett Foundation blog: Z as in Zero: Increasing College Access and Success through Zero-Textbook-Cost
Degrees http://www.hewlett.org/blog/posts/z-zero-increasing-college-access-and-success-through-zero-textbook-cost-degrees
• Tidewater Community College video: Cost Cutting College Education’s Future https://youtu.be/RdeS2ZUGIsE?list=UUZ8kKg7SydcT1nlBtuaskvg
• CCCOER webinar: Increasing College Access and Success with Zero-Textbook Cost Degree Programs http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/oew-2015-zero-textbook-cost-degree
• Peer to Peer University (P2PU) School of Open: http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org• UMUC press release on their move to a 100% e-resources/OER model (Embedded Digital Resources are in,
Traditional Texts out at UMUC): http://www.umuc.edu/globalmedia/embedded-digital-resources.cfm#sthash.LfjtN2sZ.dpbs
• SPARC on Affordable Textbook Act: http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national/act
Further Reading on collaborative authorship by Sprint:
• Textbook Writing Sprint with K12 Teachers in South Africa: http://kefletcher.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/textbook-writing-sprint-with-k12.html
• Clint Lalonde (BCcampus): Reflections on an Open Textbook Sprint: http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/07/02/clint-lalonde-bccampus-reflections-on-an-open-textbook-sprint/ and http://bccampus.ca/2014/06/20/how-to-turn-a-great-idea-into-an-open-textbook-in-just-four-days/
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• Creative Commons Choose a License: https://creativecommons.org/choose/
• Watch Paul Stacey (Creative Commons) explain different licenses in this great webinar produced as part of the Bccampus P2PU Adopting Open Textbooks course: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2675/content/5829/
• Understanding Open Licensing leaflet produced by the DigiLit OER for Schools project in Leicester: http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/
• Glasgow Caledonian University: Reusing Content https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2675/content/5829/
• Best Practices for Attribution: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
• Flickr CC Attribution Helper http://flickr-cc-helper.surge.sh
• Got a question or issue you want advice on? P2PU have a Creative Commons, Copyright and Other such Dilemmas forum: http://community.p2pu.org/t/creative-commons-copyright-and-other-such-dilemmas/1731
• What is open access? http://opensource.com/resources/what-open-access
• How open it it? SPARC produced leaflet on open access: http://sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/hoii_guide_rev4_web.pdf
• And finally… test your remix skills with a great Remix Game by David Wiley: http://opencontent.org/game/betagame.html
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