Presentation shared during open education week 2016 to educational developers at Vancouver Island University. We cover openness in education, Creative Commons licenses, ways of engaging with open educational resources (OER) and the emergent open pedagogical practices associated with using open resources.
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Open Education Week: Degrees of Open Practice
1. Open Educational Resources, Open Textbooks and Open Pedagogy
Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Vancouver Island University
Search & Create LicenseRemix Share
4. Hodgkinson-Williams, C. & Paskevicius, M. (2010). University of Cape Town OpenContent - Open Educational Resources Directory Launch.
Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi/university-of-cape-town-opencontent-open-educational-resources-directory-launch
Enablers of openness
5. All rights reserved: the default
No rights reserved: creator
must state public domain
https://ciel.viu.ca/learning-technologies-innovation/developing-using-media-content/finding-using-open-educational-resources/creative-commons-licences
6. State of the Commons 2015
https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/
7. Open Educational Resources
Shared
Shared freely
and openly to
be…
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… used by
anyone to …… adapt / repurpose/
improve under some
type of license in order
to …
… redistribute
and share
again.
Open Content / open educational resources (OER) / open courseware are educational
materials which are discoverable online and openly licensed that can be:
8. Online DOES NOT EQUAL
openly licensed!
Pixel | Flickr - Photo Sharing! : taken from -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37408217@N08/5025870260/ Author: filin
ilia - aliyo.hu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
10. • Quickly access links to open
educational content for course or
content development
• Resources are organized by media
type and subject area
• Users can submit open resources
they find useful as well
http://wordpress.viu.ca/openeducationalresources/
Vancouver Island University Open Educational
Resource Directory
11. • Arts
• Business
• Health
• Recreation/Tourism
• Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Trades
• Upgrading Programs
BC Campus currently has 139 open
textbooks available in the following
subject areas:
https://open.bccampus.ca/
12. Business as usual
Commercial
textbook
Assigns
Students:
• buy used
• buy then sell
• rent online
• access via library
• photocopy
• wing it!
Instructor
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable and
Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open Science. Retrieved
from http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-
the-desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-open-
science
14. Replacing commercial
textbook with open textbook
Open
textbook
Assigns
Shares
with students
Instructor
Students:
• Access free online
• Access free via mobile
• Print on demand
• Remix, adapt,
repurpose
• Become familiar with
Creative Commons
15. What becomes possible using OER?
• Free access to online resource in a variety of formats
• Editing, localization and remixing of content for local
context
• OER as source for building online courses, activities,
assessment
• Course content can be shared openly via Wordpress,
etc. – no LMS
• Others?
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable and
Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open Science. Retrieved
from http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-
the-desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-open-
science
16. What do we lose when using OER?
Jhangiani, J. (2015) Douglas College PD Event: The Desirable and
Inevitable Shift Towards Open Pedagogy and Open Science. Retrieved
from http://www.slideshare.net/rajivjhangiani1/the-future-is-open-
the-desirable-and-inevitable-shift-towards-open-pedagogy-and-open-
science
• Perceived high quality of publisher generated
texts
• Ancillary materials included with textbooks (slide
decks, simulations, test banks, activity sheets,
etc.)
• Potential familiarity and history with frequently
used textbook
• Others?
17. Available on the web to other faculties,
students and institutions to discover and
reuse
Designated as
OER on web
Adapted from Conole, G., McAndrew, P., & Dimitriadis, Y. (2010). The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns
as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources. Techniques for fostering
collaboration in online learning communities: Theoretical and practical perspectives, 206-223.
Traditional sharing of
teaching materials
Sharing educational
resources as OER
Additional considerations:
• Clearing of copyright or use of open licenses
• Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse
• Addition of descriptive metadata
• Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
Learning activity
or resource
Creates
Shares
with students
Instructor
Sharing beyond the classroom
Shares
with colleagues
(hopefully)
18. Research on Potential OER impact
Significant potential for impact on:
• student performance and satisfaction
• inspiring new approaches to teaching and learning
• more equitable access to educational resources
• critical reflection on practice by educators through exposure to OER
Lesser impact:
• student retention
• institutional finances
Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The impact of OER
on teaching and learning practice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. Retrieved online
http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/227
20. Open Educational Resource Grants
Open Educational Resource grants may be used for, but not limited to:
• Adaptation of Open Textbooks or Open Educational Resources
• Creation of Open Educational Resources
• Course Redesign using Open Educational Resources
https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/open-educational-resource-grants/
Ancillary Materials Development
Call for proposals to create ancillary support material for existing open textbooks. This can
include:
• Test banks of questions based on an existing open textbook
• Presentations (PowerPoint, Open Office, Prezi, etc)
• Multimedia content, such as audio or video, that could further enhance the textbook
• Simulations
• Instructor and student manuals
• Additional learning activities
https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/ancillary-materials-development/
22. Defining Open Educational
Practices
• Open Educational Practices have been defined as “the next phase in
OER development, which will see a shift from a focus on resources to
a focus on open educational practices being a combination of open
resources use and open learning architectures to transform learning”
(Camilleri & Ehlers, 2011, p. 6)
• Open Pedagogy “describes the experiences of learners who engage in
an experience through the open web. The non-linear, dynamic, and
networked characteristics of the open web fully inform the qualities
of open pedagogy” (Pacansky-Brock, 2015)
Camilleri, A. F. & Ehlers, U. D. (2011). Mainstreaming Open Educational Practice. Recommendations for Policy. OPAL
Consortium. European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL). Retrieved from http://efquel.org/wp-
content/uploads/2012/03/Policy_Support_OEP.pdf
Pacansky-Brock, M. (2015). What is open pedagogy? Teaching and Learning Innovations, August 26, 2015. Retrieved from
http://tlinnovations.cikeys.com/uncategorized/what-is-open-pedagogy/
23. Wileys’ Notes on Open Pedagogy (2016)
• Students learn as a result of the things they do
• We ask students to do many things – read, watch, listen, answer, solve, etc.
• Broadly speaking, our pedagogy is how we decide what we ask students to
do
• Openness increase the number of students who can do things with
resources by increasing student access to resources
• Openness enables new pedagogical approaches by allowing students to do
things with resources that weren’t previously possible or practical
• Openness invites students to share their work more widely, creating
opportunities for peer review, network formation, indexing and archiving
Wiley, D. (2016) Notes on Open Pedagogy. Iterating Toward Openness
Blog. March 1, 2016. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4483
24. The Disposable Assignment
• Students will do the work
• Faculty will grade the work
• Students will throw away the
work
• Students will do the work
• Faculty will grade the work
• The work is inherently valuable
to someone beyond the class
• The work is openly published
and licensed so those other
people can find and use it
The Renewable Assignment
Wiley, D. (2016) Notes on Open Pedagogy. Iterating Toward Openness
Blog. March 1, 2016. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4483
25. Business as
usual
Shares
resources
among
colleagues
Engages in
interinstitutional
resource sharing
Licensing and
permissions often
unclear
Engages students in
contributing or
remixing open access,
openly licensed and
public domain
resources
Creates and shares
T&L resources that
are open access,
openly license
and/or public
domain
Shares
practice at
teaching
conferences
and events
Uses open
access, open
licenses and
public domain
resources in T&L
Adopts and
prescribes an
open textbook
from BC Campus
or other
repository
Engages students
in using open
access, open
licenses and
public domain
resources
Understanding of
licensing usage rights
Understanding and adoption of
open licensing
Uses open
resources
found online
Often
under fair
use
Spectrum
of open
educational
practices
Most common practices
Emerging practices
Future practices
26. Open Pedagogy: Biology 325
• All students built and maintained their own
open access Wordpress site
• Posts were aggregated into a parent site
• Tasked with creating two articles on a local
bird species of their choice
• Comments emerged as students reviewed
one another's work
• This work is now
archived and accessible
on the web
http://wordpress.viu.ca/biol325
27. The ChemWiki is a collaborative
approach toward chemistry
education where an Open Access
textbook environment is constantly
being written and re-written by
students and faculty members
resulting in a free Chemistry
textbook to supplant conventional
paper-based books.
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/
29. • Open Educational Resources (OER) provide
alternatives and supplements to commercial
educational resources
• Alternative copyright tools have emerged which
make the legal sharing of digital resources more
straightforward
• There is a wealth of educational content available
under open copyright licenses
• BC Open Textbooks are a provincial initiative and
should be promoted as an alternative to
commercial textbooks
• Being aware of and using open resources invites
new pedagogies and practices
Open education: Key takeaways
30. Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius
Learning Technologies Application Developer
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
michael.paskevicus@viu.ca
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The key aspect of an OER is that it is both discoverable online – so that people can find it AND openly licensed - so that people can legally make use of it. OER includes texts, different forms of media, ideas, as well as documented teaching strategies/techniques or practices.
Advocates of openness would suggest that the value in OER is in its potential to support learning in many ways and in many contexts.
Online DOES NOT EQUAL openly licensed!
So what is meant to happen is a cycle of teaching material evermore being improved and shared. Plus it is all legal under the terms of the open license.
We are all familiar with preparing materials for the classroom, but for those who want to delve into creating OER there are some additional considerations that you will have to take into mind:
Clearing of copyright issues
Formatting for web and accessibility for reuse
Addition of descriptive metadata
Publishing in repository, referatory or on the web
This is a fair bit of extra work and a number of additional considerations to take into account when creawting instructional media. Fortunatly there are a number of enablers which can help you.