Thinking About Open: Heriot Watt University (30 April 2015)
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenIntroduction
What does openness mean to you?
Who are we?
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What does openness mean to you?
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I use free online resources
I adapt free online resources
I create resources & share them freely online
I support others in using/sharing resources
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenWhat is open?
Which example resonates best with you?
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenKeynote: Martin Weller
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenWhy and how can open make a difference?
• 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)
• “…the textbooks actually cost more than
the tuition for most students.”
(Barbara Illowsky, author of Collaborative Statistics)
• 63% of respondents to the 2012 Florida
Student Textbook Survey “…reported not
having purchased the required textbook
because of the high cost…”
Picture credit: Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/college-textbook-prices-
increase_n_2409153.html)
Open Textbook Overview
Slide: OER Research Hub e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/OER_Hub/oerrh-open-textbooksoaweekoct14final
http://openstaxcollege.org/faculty
Saved students over $30
million since June 2012
From 40 adoptions in 2012 to
1061 by 2014
1 million downloads of
OpenStax materials
http://openstaxcollege.org
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College’s 2014 Progress Report:
http://openstaxcollege.org/news/our-
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First textbook published June 2012
12 open textbooks published to date
iBooks available in 32 countries
OpenStax College Overview
Slide: OER Research Hub e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/OER_Hub/oerrh-open-textbooksoaweekoct14final
What is the biggest challenge of using OER? OER Research Hub findings
• Finding suitable resources in my subject area 58%
• Finding resources of sufficient high quality 56%
• Knowing where to find resources 53%
What about Quality?
Further Reading:
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/
“Because I've got a high-quality primary source of information, I've got more time to find supplements, labs, to do activities, and to have discussions with my students. My instructional practice has definitely improved since I'm not having to seek out high-quality sources of information and have a trusted source.” (Educator using OpenStax College textbooks, 2014-5 Survey)
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OER Guidance for Schools, DigiLit Project Leicester
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/
Guidance on creating/using OER, GCU
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/copyright/creatingcontent/
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenOpen Licensing
Why use open licenses?
• Enables you to share effectively and facilitate reuse;
• Helps tell others how you’d like your material to be used;
• You retain the copyright to the material.
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Source: Creative Commons, CC-BY 4.0
Screenshot source: Clint Lalonde. Twitter
Useful Resources• 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
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland
Thinking About OpenRound-Up
Thank you
We’d love your feedback!
Any questions or comments?
@celTatis
@BeckPitt
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Further reading
Z-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
