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About usThe Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project facilitates best practice in Scottish open education. We aim to enhance Scotland’s reputation and capacity for developing publicly available and licenced online materials, supported by high quality pedagogy and learning technology.

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Which example resonates best with you?

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Open Source SoftwareOpen AccessOpen Culture

Open Educational ResourcesOpen Content

Open DataOpen Science

Open ResearchOpen LicensingOpen Textbooks

Open CoursewareOpen Policy

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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/

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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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OER allow educators to better accommodate diverse learner 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?”

“I am teaching the way I want to teach, in the order and flow that I want. I am free of any text book. The book is a resource... The book no longer drives the course. I produce the curriculum. The book is my servant. I am not its servant.”

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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Which challenges, if any, do you most often face in using OER?

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Sharing practices in ScotlandHE Colleges

I don’t share 6.8% 1.3%

I share through my institution’s VLE 65.5% 69.1%

I share publicly online 9.4% 9.3%

I share in person 37.4% 61.4%

I share via email if asked privately 48.5% 56.4%

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Thank you!

We’d love your feedback…Any questions or comments? @celTatis B.de-los-Arcos@open.ac.uk@BeckPitt Beck.Pitt@open.ac.uk@OEPScotland oepscotland@gmail.com

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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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