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Transcript of Open Knowledge in Higher Education (OKHE) - session 1
Open Knowledge in Higher EducationPG Cert in HE
Facilitated by Sam Aston, Jennie Blake & Chris Millson
Speakers for Wednesday 10 February 2016
Simon BainsMartin Weller Ian HuttFrances Pinter
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Why "open knowledge"?Martin Weller
Overview
• Openness everywhere?• Pros• Cons• Lessons from history• Discussion/Advice
Why you should care
Openness is everywhere
• Open knowledge• Open access• MOOCS• OER• Open practice• Open data• Open licenses• Open research• Open citizenship
The “Get on the bus” argument
• Openness is like digital was in 1995• You’re going to have to engage with it whether
you like it or not
The good stuff
Sharing is what we do
It increases impact
It’s something HEIs/Libraries can do
It’s cost effective
It’s efficient
It promotes collaboration
The “It’s good for you” argument
The not so good stuff
Loss of control
Theft
Trolls
Monitoring
Always on
The “you need to understand this stuff” argument
Lessons from history
The VLE
Publishing
MOOCs
The “if you don’t control it, someone else will” argument
Avoiding dichotomies
Decide what elements can work for you
@mweller
Edtechie.net
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MOOCs@Manchester
Ian HuttHead of Distance Learning Operations
Overview
• What is a MOOC?• Why?• Manchester MOOCs• Why? – Revisited...
“If you've only just caught on to the concept of online university courses called MOOCs, then you're in danger of
falling behind again.” BBC News, Sept 2013
What is a MOOC ?• Typically ~6 weeks
– Video lectures– Self-tests quizzes– Forums
• Coursera • FutureLearn
“Ivy League for the masses”, NYT 2012
Why MOOC?
• Experimentation– What can we learn from MOOCs?
• 2020 Vision: Social Responsibility – Widening participation
“It’s MOOC or die...” Prof Nutbeam, VC UoS, 2013
Enrolled Active Countries
Good/Excellent
Introduction to Population Health*
14,565 8,993 172 (38%) 91%
Water Supply and Sanitation
17,418 10,361 184 (42%) 95%
Introduction to Physical Chemistry*
52,227 24,081 158 (30%) 94%
Global Health and Humanitarianism*
11,394 7,647 165 (30%) 91%
Our Earth: Climate, History & Processes*
17,008 11,076 159 (34%) 93%
Ancient Egypt: A history in six objects
17,171 10,225 163 (27%) ---
(* = two runs)
132,768 72,383 184 (36%) 93%
Demographics I
20%
20%
9%
31%
9%
10%
Which of the following descriptions best characterizes you?
Curious Amateur / Hobbyist
Industry Professional
Research Scientist
Student / Pupil
Academic / Teacher
None of the above
Demographics II
1%
14%
6%
42%
36%
What is the highest level of education you have completed?
Primary School
Secondary / High School
Voc/prof qualification
Undergraduate degree
Postgraduate degree
What’s in it for...?The University ? The Academic ? The Student ?
Open Education
Brand Promotion
“Beacon Areas”
Recruitment
Futureproofing
Student data
New techniques
New resources
New network
Research data
Fun...!?
Free Education
(Verified) Certificate
Try-before-buy
Badges
Post-course Survey
Would recommend to
friend/colleague
Interested in other UoM MOOCs
Interested in UoM course
(CB or DL)
Introduction to Population Health 58% 53% 26%
Water Supply and Sanitation 91% 45% 32%
Introduction to Physical Chemistry 79% 62% 24%
Global Health and Humanitarianism 65% 47% 26%
Our Earth: Climate, History & Processes
66% 50% 12%
74% 52% 25%
Lessons Learned• Huge amounts of data
– Platform, surveys, forums, staff
• +ve engagement – large audience• Content is not enough
– full experience / engagement critical• Reusable content
What Next?• Small, Private, Online Courses (SPOCs)• xMOOCs v cMOOCs• Collaborative MOOCs• Big Data / Learning Analytics• “On Demand” model• Long-term Sustainability?
MOOCs: current and future trendsAn academic perspective
Patrick J O’MalleyThe University of Manchester
MOOC Hype Cycle
Source: Class Central
Growth of MOOCs:500+ Universities, 4,200 + courses, 35 million students
Source: Class Central
Course distribution by providers
Source: Class Central
• There are 100+ Specializations, Nanodegrees, and XSeries
• Aims to provide brand new credentials
• Expected to be main focus in next few years with exponential growth predicted
Credentials
• Extend teaching audience
• Trial new pedagogy e,g. virtual labs
• Use in blended learning – local or international
• Taster/starter to full distance learning
• Initial effort large but long term gains
Academic benefits of teaching on a MOOC or OER
Open Knowledge &the Future of the
Academic Monograph
10 February 2016Dr Frances Pinter
Manchester University Press and Knowledge Unlatched
Opening the Book
• Set up in late 2013
• Led by Professor Geoffrey Crossick
• AHRC & ESRC support, British Academy involved
• Longer term perspective for online and OA monographs
• Identify & clarify issues, move forward thinking
Monographs and Open Access Project
About the project
• Starting with what monograph is and what is happening to it
• Three core dimensions of work:
1. what is place and culture of the monograph within humanities & social sciences?
2. is there a crisis of the monograph?
3. how will innovation in publishing & access models affect the monograph?
Monographs and Open Access Project
Scope of the work
Historic works in a Bookshelf in the Prunksaal (State Hall) of the Imperial Library of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, Matl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bookshelf_Prunksaal_OeNB_Vienna_AT_matl00786ch.jpg, CC BY-SA. Modified from original (crop)
Key findings
• Monograph in ecology of scholarly communications incl. research books not formal monographs central to much of AH&SS – not some awkward outlier
• How much variation across disciplines?
• Key question – why write and why read monographs?
• Understanding research culture of monograph central to report way knowledge developed, articulated, disseminated including thinking through writing the book
• Culture of attachment – how scholars identify with their work
• Career progression and reputation
1. The culture of the monograph
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• Long-established discourse about ‘crisis of monograph’
• Decline in numbers published? 2004 – 2,523 new titles 2013 – 5,023 new titles
• Harder to get published some sub-areas than others?
• Decline in print runs? From remainder bookshops to print on demand?
• Decline in numbers purchased?
• Current ‘crisis of monograph’ not key argument for open access
2. Is the monograph in crisis?
Book burning, Ryan Junell, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_burning_(4).jpg, CC BY-SA
1980
2010
3000
350
2000
19902000
Print Runs for Academic Books
1000
2015
• In context of culture and situation of monograph must assume move to online access – and open?
• The print monograph: where text does not reign alone materiality of book distinctive implications for digital access cf. journal articles
• How can strengths of print monographs be sustained in digital? must be if open access to work – although print won’t disappear e-books not good enough yet
• But real opportunities with online delivery and open access opportunities of wider access, readership, use freely access whole book and enhancement and dynamics of how used
3. How will innovation in publishing & access models affect monograph?
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Specific issues – what Crossick found
• Third-party rights
• Open licensing
• Technical and process challenges
• International dimension
• Economic & business models
Open-access monographs: some key issues from report
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Funding Routes to Open Access• 1. OA edition + sales from print and/or e-books NAP, Bloomsbury Academic
• 2. Institutional Support for Press World Bank, Amherst, Ubiquity• 3. Library-Press collaboration Mpublishing/Michigan • 4. Library Publishing Library Publishing Coalition (USA) • 5. Funding body side publication fee NOW Netherlands, FWF Austria,
Wellcome UK, Max Planck Society, Germany • 6. ‘Author’ side publication fee SpringerOpen Books, Palgrave Open,
Manchester University Press, Brill • 7. University Budgets - BPCs ?• 8. General Crowd-funding – UnglueIt• 9. Library consortium Knowledge Unlatched
What is Knowledge Unlatched
• A collaborative, award winning initiative between global library community and publishers to develop a sustainable route to OA for books
• Opportunity to make OA monographs a reality
• Participation costs less than purchasing hardbacks or ebooks
• A space to learn together
• Reduce waste in the supply chain• Ensure that origination costs are
covered• Achieve universal Open Access• Make the purchasing process easier• Understand more about how OA
content is used
What Do We Want?
Pilot Collection PublishersAmsterdam University PressBloomsbury AcademicBrill Cambridge University PressDe GruyterDuke University PressEdinburgh University PressLiverpool University Press
Manchester University PressPurdue University PressRutgers University PressTemple University PressUniversity of Michigan Press
Round 2• 78 books• 26 publishers• 8 small packages (cc 10 books per packages)• five subjects (six single subject packages)• two publisher packages (mixed subjects)• Cost to each of 300 libraries less than 2
APCs
What we are working on now
Round 2 – Additional PublishersYale University Press
Routledge
Pluto
Toronto University Press
Brandeis University Press
Dartmouth University Press
Leiden University Press
Colorado University Press
Ubiquity
Penn State University Press
Berghahn
Fordham University Press
Monash University Press
Colorado University Press
Some MUP OA Stats
• 99 books in OA since 2012 – 680,000 downloads!
• That’s nearly 7,000 downloads per book over four years!
• In 2015 one top title downloaded over 4,000 times in 12 months!
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