Stone Soup for the 21st Century: Putting Educational Innovations

into Practicewith MERLOT

Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.Executive Director, MERLOT

Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, California State University System

September 10, 2013

Education is one of the most powerful

personal, social and economic

change agents in the world.

How do we empower people to teach and learn what they need today and

tomorrow?

GIVE A GIFT, NOT A BURDEN

Metaphors, Principles, and Innovations• Engaging people and opening doors

• Recognizing and validating needs

• Exciting curiosity

• Creating the gathering place in the open

• Inviting solutions

• Offering personal contributions

• Encouraging publicity

• Enjoying the fruits of labors

• Celebrating accomplishments

• Saying Thank You

Engaging People and Opening Doors to Innovation

RECOGNIZING AND

VALIDATING NEEDS

What are the “Stone Soup” Reasons for Putting Educational Innovations

into Practice?

HOW CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU TO SUCCEED?

If you’d like teach and learn with more innovative pedagogies,

GIVE A GIFT, NOT A BURDEN

Gifts:• Giver vs. Receiver

• The gift personally addresses the individual needs and wishes of the Receiver

• It’s “Free” vs. It “Costs”• Unconditional offering – Open Educational

Resources (OER) and Services

• Appreciating Gifts vs. Depreciating Gifts• You adopt the gift as part of who you are and what

you do.

Who Needs the Gifts of Open Educational Resources

• Faculty and teachers needing better ways for their students to learn

• People at work needing better ways to do their work

• Parents at home needing better ways to help their children learn

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How do we enable people to adopt open educational resources and services as gifts?

Did Thermodynamic Equilibrium Excite Your Curiosity?

Learning by Doing (anytime)

• Learning Opportunity:

– The learning resource is FREE – Open Educational Resource (OER)

• Learning Outcomes:

– Plan, conduct, & analyze experiments

– Apply the findings to a real world problems - Design ways to have “Green” heating and cooling systems, you must understand thermodynamic equilibrium.

Homework Helper• Your child is learning pre-algebra and is having

some trouble learning to add and subtract negative integers

– Learning Concepts by Explaining

– Learning Skills by Doing

• It has been a while since you’ve had to do this

• You want to help your child learn and have them still love you

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Gathering Place & Inviting Solutions

• Join a worldwide community of innovative educators using, advising, and sharing high quality teaching materials for free.

• MERLOT provides you services and resources that enable you to design the learning strategies.

• MERLOT’s services and resources can be blended with INACAP and other projects so…

• You and your students can be empowered to teach and learn successfully.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching- www.merlot.org

A free & open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching & learning materials since 1997… 115,000+ members and growing.

A free digital library and educational support services for online and face-to-face teaching and learning that is open for all to use. 41,000+ OER available and growing.

A consortium of higher education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other organizations collaboratively “putting educational innovations into practice”.

MERLOTII: By November 1, 2013

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OER Services for Learners -NOWwww.merlotx.org

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Free Online Learning Modules

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Free Online Courses

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Convenient Access to MERLOT Catalog

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Free Online Textbooks

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MERLOTx Connecting People

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An Open Digital Library is the Pot and Water for Stone Soup

• Public Libraries have been providing facilities for communities to share knowledge for many years.

• Open Digital Libraries, like MERLOT, can play an empowering role by

– Providing free access to educational content

– Providing free access to pedagogies

– Freeing people to contribute content

Every Soup Needs A Cultural Base

Communicating in your primary language is critical for you to

become personally connected to teaching and learning

MERLOT’s Language Services

• MERLOT’s database can accurately store all characters as well as right-to-left languages (UTF8).

• All languages in the ISO Standard can be used to catalog materials in MERLOT.

• MERLOT’s members can declare their language skills in reading and speaking.

Stone Soup Principles:Offering Personal Contributions &

Encouraging Publicity

• Sharing information about materials and people

• Contributing expertise in forms of comments, peer reviews, lesson plans, personal collections…

• Contributing to online community discussions

• Authoring OER – MERLOT Content Builder is a easy-to-use, “cloud” service

Create YOUR Course of Study

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Personal Course in Accounting

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Personalize My Course of Study

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Personalize My Learning ePortfolio

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MERLOT Content Builder

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Students Teachers created ePortfolios & Tutorials

Why Use MERLOT Content Builder?

• Export to an IMS Common Cart package

– Creates OER to publisher accepted metadata standards enabling the content to be effectively presented within different LMS’s or downloaded

• “Encourages” Use of Creative Commons License

– http://creativecommons.org

– Some Rights Reserved and Some Rights Given

• It’s FREE and managed by a sustainable organization (MERLOT)

Stone Soup Principle:Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labors

• BUILD LOCALLY-LINK GLOBALLY

• MERLOT delivers a variety of web services to your own technology platforms

– Your Portal

– Your LMS

MERLOT and the INACAP Community

Moodle Integration

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Stone Soup Principle:Celebrating Accomplishments

• Recognizing contributions and excellence of people!

• Editors’ Choice awards

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The Library

The Teaching Commons

The Community

Conversations

The Authoring Service

Vineyard

Affordable Learning Solutions: An Institutional Initiative Leveraging

MERLOT and other Lower Cost Content

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• California State University (CSU)

• Largest public baccalaureate degree-granting institution in the United States

• 23 campuses; 427,000 students; ~80% undergraduate

• 1/3 of student receive financial aid from the government and/or the university to pay for their tuition.

Textbook Affordability Affects Access to an Excellent CSU Education

• 186% rise in textbook costs from 1986-2004

– 6.1% increase per year (double inflation)

• CSU students paying $5,472 per year for tuition & $1,000 per year for course materials

• CSU students pay over $300,000,000 annually

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• Nationally, 7 of 10 students report not buying at least 1 required text because of cost.

• 79% of all students state that they would do “worse/much worse” in without their own text.

High costs have multiple effects on our students’ ability to succeed and graduate in a timely manner.

Student Responses to Costs

CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions

AccessibilityAffordability

Choice

CSU Provides Access to

No & Low Cost Textbook Alternatives

1. Open Educational Resources: We connect faculty to over

1,000,000 FREE online instructional materials they can use to

construct their curriculum using MERLOT

2. Open Textbooks: We offer over access to over

2,250 FREE online materials formatted like eBooks.

3. CSU Library Resources: Our electronic library

collections provide students FREE access to

extensive resources

4. Lower Cost Publisher Content in both

electronic and hard copy formats.

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Making It Easier To Find AlternativeContent, Tools, Technologies, Policies, Marketing and Deployment Strategies

www.affordablelearnngsolutions.org

http://library.csudh.edu/ALS/

Fall 2010 -Fall 2011

105 FacultyMade Digital Choices

6,900+ Students Enrolled

Potential$490,000 Savings

Libraries Leading The Way…

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Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership,

business models

Developing Demand

with communications,

training, professional development

Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable

access to content

Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors--Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

Metaphors, Principles, and Innovations• Engaging people and opening doors

• Recognizing and validating needs

• Exciting curiosity

• Creating the gathering place in the open

• Inviting solutions

• Offering personal contributions

• Encouraging publicity

• Enjoying the fruits of labors

• Celebrating accomplishments

• Saying Thank You

Shall We Make Stone Soup?

And Move the World With Innovations?

Mass = INACAP-MERLOT Community

Mass = Educational Innovations

THANK YOU

Questions?