Transcript Open Teaching in a Digital Age

Open Teaching in a Digital Age
‘Openness’ as the default
action of the academic?
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Prepared by:
Michael Paskevicius & Michelle Willmers
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The Notion of Academia
• Education is a social service
• Education should be about the greater good
• Academic is the creator of learning materials
and tools
• Internet is changing research and teaching
practice
Sharing doesn’t cost anything
anymore
• The internet is creating new
channels for collaboration and
feedback
• Learning materials are social
objects
• Sharing builds networks
• Sharing transforms practice
• Reach and impact is extended
Do you share a little or share a lot?
A tale of Alex Couros
• Posted dissertation online
– Over 27,500 views
• Image of networked teacher reappropriated
– Translated to multiple languages
– Used around the world
– Inspired the ‘networked student’
video circulating YouTube
More amazing stories of openness
http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09
Open educational resources (OER)
are educational materials (usually but not
always digital) that are offered freely and openly
for anyone to use and under some type of
license to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
Creative Commons:
Making OER Possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko
Questions to Ponder over Licensing
• Did I create this material?
• Whose work did I include in my material?
• Who do I want to share with?
Plus those famous Creative Commons questions!
• Do you allow commercial uses of your
work?
• Do you allow modifications of your work?
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Iterations
Start simple and let others build on top – Share-Alike
Allow commercial use – Non Commercial
Allow copies only – No Derivatives
Degrees of Openness
Open Scholar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3458534773/
Access, Appropriate, Localise
http://www.freesound.org/
http://compfight.com/
http://www.flickr.com/commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://morguefile.com
http://www.oercommons.org
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.open-video.org
http://creativecommons.org/?s=tube
http://oro.open.ac.uk
Questions for Reflection
• In what aspects of your academic life are
you not open? Why?
• Does your institution place obstacles to
openness?
• What would it take to convince you to be
more open?
• What are your concerns?
References: In order of Appearance
With inspiration from Martin Weller, Reflections on Openness, http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/reflection-in-openness
Everaldo Coelho, Crystal Project, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear, GNU Lesser General Public License
Erica_Marshall, Remember Cassette Tapes?, http://www.flickr.com/photos/erica_marshall/2666112988/ CC BY-NC-SA
courosa, Networked Teacher Diagram – Update, http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/ CC BY-NC-SA
stylianosm, Networked Teacher (Greek), http://www.flickr.com/photos/stylianosm/3706684606/, CC BY-SA
wdrexler, Networked Student, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
langwitches, Der Vernetzte Lehrer, http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3459600615/, CC BY-NC-SA
Michael Reschke, OERlogo, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg, Public Domain
Toru Iiyoshi & M. S. Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education, http://mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/, CC BY-NC-ND
Open Indiana University , Screenshot, http://open.iu.edu/
Open MIT, Screenshot, http://ocw.mit.edu/
OER Commons, Screenshot, http://oercommons.org/
Academic Earth, Screenshot, http://academicearth.org/
Jonas De Baere, strange way of building in the City, http://www.flickr.com/photos/70312717@N00/2450028348/, CC BY-NC
NoIdentity, In Series, http://www.flickr.com/photos/22309388@N07/3714080487/, CC BY-NC-ND
langwitches, Networked Teacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3458534773/ CC BY-NC-SA
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