Beyond OER: The

Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of Open Education

@actualham

Presentation CC BY Robin DeRosa

Images CC 0 Alan Levine

Open Education

•Open Educational Resources (#OER)

•Open Pedagogy (#OpenPed)

•Open Access (#OA)

How can we make college more affordable?

How can we improve learning?

How can we maximize the impact of our research?

How can we make college more affordable?

• 56% of students pay more than $400 CAD per semester

• 20% pay more than $650 CAD per semester (think of as a % of tuition!)

• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.

Effects of Textbook Prices• 67% did not purchase

a required textbook• 38% earned a poor grade• 20% failed a course• 48% occasionally or frequently

took fewer courses• 26% dropped a course• 21% withdrew from a course

2016 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the

12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

Creative Comm

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OER

OpenStax Books

“Students who use OER perform significantly better on the course throughput rate than their peers who use traditional textbooks, in both face-to-face and online courses that use OER.” (2016)

Throughput Ratean aggregate of:drop rates, withdrawal rates, C or better rates.

How can we improve learning?

What is Open Pedagogy?

ACCESSIBLELEARNER-DRIVENCONNECTEDPUBLIC

CCBY Jonathan Brodsky https://flic.kr/p/37z2C2

Access, broadly writ.Price (not cost) of college, digital divide & redlining,

accessibility & universal design, online safety & harassment

Student-Centered Learner-DrivenLearning Outcomes; Policies (Attendance, Late Work);

Procedures (Assessments, Grading); Schedule of Work (Curated Reading); AssignmentsCOURSE LEVEL, PROGRAM LEVEL

Content

↓

Community

Connected

Public

public usepublic support

public good

How can we maximize the impact of our research?

CCBY3.0 Creative Commons http://bit.ly/2mVWWp6Icons CCBY3.0 The Noun Project

Open Access“We can be confident that OA journals are journals. There's more than enough money already committed to the journal-support system. Moreover, as OA spreads, libraries will realize large savings from the conversion, cancellation, or demise of non-OA journals.”

~Peter Suber

CC BY 3.0 US: http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

OER

Open Pedagogy

Domain of One’s Own

• Drag ’n Drop → Design• Digital consumer → Digital

creator• Data mining → Data control• Audience of 1 → Public impact• Web as broadcast station →

Web as open lab• Work attached to course →

Work attached to student• ePortfolio → ePort

http://kayleighbennett.com/

to OPEN (vb.)

• Challenge barriers to access. Be honest and critical.

• Center learners. Be radical and real.

• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.

• Share your work. Be generous and just.

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#OER, #OpenPed, #OA