Open Education

OER advantages and what happens next.



Billy Meinke / @billymeinke
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Creative Commons (CC)




Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

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Copyright and the Web


 
(One has moved forward, the other hasn't)

Digital content is different



(Things do not work as pictured.)

Cost of a 250-page book


copy by hand - $250
print on demand - $25
make an online copy - $0.0008

ship a print copy - $5
distribute an online copy - $0.0007
-D. Wiley @opencontent

link to source





What's the workaround for restrictive copyright when you want to share?


(Enter: open content)

CC Licenses


Provide a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative work.

Creators choose the terms



            

attribution  |  sharealike  |  noncommercial  |  noderivs

Some rights are reserved, but sharing is made easy.

(and creators always get attribution)

License suite

 

  • CC BY    
  • CC BY-SA
  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY-ND
  • CC BY-NC-SA
  • CC BY-NC-ND

and CC0
(public domain dedication)

Layers of a license

  1. legal code
  2. human readable deed
  3. metadata

Make your Intentions Clear



Searchable on the Web







What does this mean for education?



(We have an enormous opportunity at hand)

Open Educational Resources (OER)


"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."


-Hewlett Foundation
UNESCO, OECD, + others

Open Educational Resources

 

CK-12

 
Standards-aligned, many digital formats + print available
ck12.org

OpenStax College

(Rice University)



Print on demand at low cost, has saved students $2.3+ million

openstaxcollege.org

More




open4us.org/find-oer

OER Advantages



Broaden access to education
~
Extend the reach of public investment
~
Inspire innovation in technology and pedagogy

Broaden access to education (1/2)



Broaden access to education (2/2)



EXTEND REACH OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT (1/2)







The Multiplier Effect

(Policy scales)



oerpolicies.org

Extend reach of public investment (2/2)




To ensure that Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials.

US$2bn over 4 years


* Healthcare * Information Technology * Advance Manufacturing *
* Transportation *  Energy *


Inspire new Technologies & pedagogies (1/3)



Students as


learners


and


co-creators

INSPIRE NEW TECHNOLOGIES & PEDAGOGIES (2/3)





Borrow from the Open Source Community





Fork it, fix it, send a pull request and move forward.

INSPIRE NEW TECHNOLOGIES & PEDAGOGIES (3/3)






Education + Research




What happens to education as research opens up?
(Learners can go as deep as they wish to.)

Attributions


Elements by Ivan Colic from the Noun Project
Responsive Design by Roman Kovbasyuk from the Noun Project 
Globe by Lorenzo Baldini on the Noun Project 
Check by Mourad Mokrane from the Noun Project
Graph by Piotrek Chuchla from the Noun Project
Flash Cards by Rohan Gupta from the Noun Project

"When I'm done with an e-book" by unknown author. Source.

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