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Opensource. com Flickr Image: https: //www. flickr. com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/ Introduction to Open Education

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OPEN EDUCATION Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge. Proponents of open education believe everyone in the world should have access to high-quality educational experiences and resources, and they work to eliminate barriers to this goal. https: //opensource. com/resources/what-openeducation

OPEN EDUCATION The technology we use today allows us to: • share our own educational materials freely and extend our reach for teaching and educating others • find & use existing free high-quality educational materials that meet our own instructional goals and the needs of our students • build upon the works of others to enhance the quality of existing teaching and learning materials

BARRIERS TO OPEN EDUCATION • Barrier to Sharing and Reusing Materials • Copyright – All Rights Reserved • Solution: Creative Commons – Some Rights Reserved • Openly licensed teaching and learning materials

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: http: //www. hewlett. org/programs/educationprogram/open-educational-resources OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Free Access + Free Permissions - The 5 R’s • Open licenses provides at least 2 kinds of permissions: • Reuse – Permission to make and reuse exact copies • Redistribute – Permission to share copies with others • Open should also provide these additional permissions: • Revise – Permission to change, adapt, and alter the resource • Remix – Permission to combine the OER with other materials to produce a new work • Retain – Users have the right to make, archive, and “own” copies of the content Free Access + Free Permissions David Wiley - http: //opencontent. org/blog/

Courses Modules Images OER TYPES OF OER Test Banks Videos Textbooks Learning Objects

Libre. Texts OPEN ACCESS TO OER LEARNING MATERIALS

COOL 4 ED FACULTY SHOWCASE DEMONSTRATION http: //www. cool 4 ed. org/index. html

IMPACT OF TEXTBOOK COSTS ON STUDENTS Florida Virtual Campus. (2016). 2016 Florida Student Textbooks and Course Materials Survey. Tallahassee, FL: Author. Retrieved from http: //www. openaccesstextbooks. org/pdf/2016_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey. pdf

QUALITY QUESTION • Open Textbook Quality Varies • As with traditionally published resources • No perfect textbook • Peer Reviews • Open Textbook Library https: //open. umn. edu/opentextbooks/ • Open. Stax, UNG Press: Pre-production peer review • Open textbooks can be adapted and edited to fit the learning objectives and goals for a course

EFFICACY AND PERCEPTIONS OF OER • Students who use OER tend to do as well or better than their peers using traditional textbooks in terms of course completion and passing rates. • Literature indicates that open textbooks are connected with high student and faculty satisfaction, lower costs, and similar or better educational outcomes. Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4). pp 573– 590. https: //link. springer. com/article/10. 1007/s 11423 -016 -9434 -9

THE OPEN EDUCATION GROUP An interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption. http: //openedgroup. org

OER-ENABLED PEDAGOGY “The set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5 R permissions that are characteristic of OER” http: //www. irrodl. org/index. php/irrodl/article/view/3601/4724

OER-ENABLED PEDAGOGY RATIONALE 1. Students learn by doing/making 2. Copyright prohibits broad categories of activity (e. g. , making copies or creating derivative works) without permission from a rights holder 3. Therefore, copyright necessarily limits the ways in which students can learn 4. The 5 R’s of OER lift these restrictions 5. Therefore, students are free to engage in a broader range of activities and, learn in a broader range of ways 16 http: //www. irrodl. org/index. php/irrodl/article/view/3601/4724

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DISPOSABLE ASSIGNMENTS “These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away. Not only do these assignments add no value to the world, they actually suck value out of the world. ” David Wiley https: //opencontent. org/blog/archives/2975

RENEWABLE ASSIGNMENTS • Students create new artifacts (essays, poems, videos, songs, etc. ) or revise/remix existing OER • The new artifact has value beyond supporting the learning of its author • Students are invited to publicly share their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER • Students are invited to openly license their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER 19

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IS IT OER-ENABLED PEDAGOGY? FOUR-PART TEST 1. Are students asked to create new artifacts (essays, poems, videos, songs, etc. ) or revise/remix existing OER? 2. Does the new artifact have value beyond supporting the learning of its author? 3. Are students invited to publicly share their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER? 4. Are students invited to openly license their new artifacts or revised/remixed OER?

OER & OER-ENABLED PEDAGOGY OER-Enabled Pedagogy • Allow instructors to revise/remix materials to meet their needs • Allows students to learn in new and different ways • Allow instructors to move beyond the constraints of a single text • Allows students to revise/remix materials to create something new • Create value for the student (save money, reduce DFW rates, increase grades) • Creates value beyond the student’s individual learning • Focus on pedagogical value

WHY OPEN MATTERS • OER provide a means for • Cost savings • Access • Student retention and success • By using OER, Open Pedagogy (OER-enabled pedagogy) helps to achieve the goal that everyone in the world should have access to high quality educational experiences and resources

Thank You! Contributors to these slides: Lucy Harrison, ALG Marie Lasseter, ALG Judy Orton Grissett, GSW