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Open EducationAdoption and Impact Strategies

April 23, 2014

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Orientation to Open Education• I’m just learning about open

education• I have a strong understanding• I feel strong philosophical alignment• I’m pragmatic about its applications• I’m skeptical but listening• I’m not sure what to do next• I have a vision and a plan


Lumen Learning

• Support effective use of OER at scale Efficacy data Free AND better

• Model openness Respect, support and build the

community Remain truly open

• Diversify the ecosystem Focus where scale and aggregation

provide benefit

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Lumen Learning

OER PilotsGuide institutions

through the transition process

• Inform leadership• Train and support

initial faculty• Guide evaluation• Support scaling

plans

$5,000 - $10,000Incl. travel

Supported Open Courses

Textbook replacement for high-enrollment

courses

• Content and assessments

• Effective design• Analytics-driven

enhancements

$5 per enrollment(paid by institution)

Adaptive Open Courses

Textbook replacement for high-enrollment

courses

• Full personalization of pathways

• Cross-course remediation

• Self-paced study

$40 per enrollment(paid by institution)

Introduction to Open EducationPhilosophyDefinitions

Practical ApplicationsBenefits

Education is Sharing

teachers with studentsstudents with teachers

Shared by David Wiley under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

can be given without being given away

Ideas are Non-rivalrous

Physical Expressions Are Not

to give a book, you must

give it away

When Expressions Are Digital

they also become non-rivalrous

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© Cancels the Possibilities

of digital media and the internet

InternetEnables

what to do?

CopyrightForbids

use copyright to enforce sharing

5Rs: The Powerful Rights of Open

• Make, own, and control your own copy of the contentRetain

• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter

the contentRevise• Combine the original or revised

content with other OER to create something new

Remix• Share your copies of the original

content, revisions, or remixes with others

Redistribute

Open LicensesCreative Commons

Obscurityis a far greater threat to

authors than

piracy .

Why ?

- Tim O’Reilly

Because in the end

the love you takeis equal to

the love you make.

Why ?

- John Lennon


What are Open Educational Resources?

(1)Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans, videos, readings, exams

(2) Are free for anyone to access, and(3) Include free permission to engage

in the 4R activities: reuse, revise, remix, redistribute

What are Open Educational Resources?

Adoption Methodologies and Frameworks

Pilot ApproachesProgram Approaches

System/Community Approaches


The Kaleidoscope Pilot

• At least 120 students Four sections, ideally 2 different

disciplines Courses selected from those with

mature solutions

• Institutional leadership participation• Training for faculty and support

through term (two 3-hour sessions)• Evaluation: success data and surveys


The Z Degree

• An entire Associate’s degree with a $0 textbook cost and only OER

• Twenty-two courses• Z designation in the class schedule

Trained faculty Fully open licensing Continuous improvement cycle

• Student orientation prior to registration

Source: Tidewater Community College Z degree project team


VCCS/Kaleidoscope Model

• Collaborative faculty teams review, align, refine and augment a “course”

• Emphasis on use of high-quality existing materials

• New work licensed CC-BY• Packaged for adapting and adopting• Training and support for adapters

and adopters

Engaging Faculty Members

Changing BehaviorFaculty Archetypes

Course Redesign Process +http://bit.ly/1hopUCV


Shifting Faculty Engagement with OER

• REUSE – This is MY content• REVISE – This is a starting point for

improvement• REMIX – This is the best collection of

materials for each concept or outcome• REDISTRIBUTION – This exists in a

community of collaborators


Faculty Approaches

BUILD ADAPT ADOPT

• Develop new materials

• Aggregate materials from high-quality OER

• Create tools and systems

• Create media• Share or publish

Similar in scope to writing a new textbook with many collaborators.

• Identify high-quality course or resource

• Create significant revision

• Remix, aggregate• Share or publish

Similar in scope to moving from traditional to fully online delivery.

• Review open course• Refine for teaching

approach• Align with syllabus• Assign and reference

Similar in scope to using a new textbook or a major new edition.

Supporting Discovery of OER

SearchingOER Sources +

Course Options +

Common Questions and Challenges

Faculty IncentivesIP Policies +

Bookstores and Economics +Administrative Processes

Union Negotiations +


Faculty Incentives

BUILD ADAPT ADOPT

• Develop new materials

• Aggregate materials from high-quality OER

• Create tools and systems

• Create media• Share or publish

Similar in scope to writing a new textbook with many collaborators.

• Identify high-quality course or resource

• Create significant revision

• Remix, aggregate• Share or publish

Similar in scope to moving from traditional to fully online delivery.

• Review open course• Refine for teaching

approach• Align with syllabus• Assign and reference

Similar in scope to using a new textbook or a major new edition.


Faculty Incentives

• Time• Financial appreciation ($500 -

$2,000)• Recognition• Student impact data• Support

Don’t push on weight-bearing walls.

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus


Economics

• No textbook required, or partner with bookstore for print fulfillment

• Lost tuition from drop/add activity• Lost bookstore revenue• Increased persistence and enrollment• Open course material fees

90% cost reduction Predictable fee with greater success

New Possibilities

Open Pedagogical ApproachesBeyond the Textbook


The True Opportunities

1. Cognitive science-based enhancements to learning materials (Jeffrey Karpicke retrieval over re-reading)

2. Contextualization created and shared by faculty or…

3. Student engagement in creation of learning materials (David Wiley open pedagogy)

Open Pedagogy

What kind of activities can students engage in with OER / open data / open access articles that they cannot do otherwise?

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“Disposable Assignments”Students hate doing them

You hate grading themHuge waste of time and energy

• Students see value in doing them

• You see value in grading them• Actually add value to the

world

“Valuable Assignments”

From Process to Product

In theory, all assignments have students engage in valuable processes.

There’s no reason they shouldn’t result in valuable products.

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60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus


100% have access to learning materials on day 1

100% own educational materials for lifelong learning

100% use all educational funding to complete

100% stay in courses for which they register

100% succeed in courses for which they register

100% persist to complete educational goals

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