“Keep The Fire”11 years of Open Education and #opened

David Kernohan

Open educational resources do have an important role to play in online education, but they need to be properly designed, and developed within a broader learning context that includes the critical activities needed to support learning, such as opportunities for student-instructor and peer interaction, and within a culture of sharing, such as consortia of equal partners and other frameworks that provide a context that encourages and supports sharing. In other words, OERs need skill and hard work to make them useful, and selling them as a panacea for education does more harm than good

Tony Bates, Canadian EdTech Legend, 2011http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/02/06/oers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#sthash.F7ZWDGye.dpuf

“Openness in education is more advocacy than research. Sure, we’ve had the odd Yochai Benkler paper and a few publications from advocates of openness and a few researcher/philosopher/advocates (like Peter Suber and John Willinksky). But, overall, advocacy has driven adoption of openness (OER, MOOCs, open pedagogy, etc). This is rather odd. I can’t think of a trend in education that is as substantive as openness that has less of a peer reviewed research base. Top conferences are practitioner and policy/advocacy based. Where are the research conferences? Where are the proceedings? When they exist, they are often small clusters embedded in other conferences and publications. IF, as David argues, adoption rates of OERs in courses will approach 80%, the lack of a research community in this space seems like a significant limitation.

George Siemens, former edtech blogger, 2014http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/11/18/moving-from-openness-advocacy-to-research/

Rate of disaggregation will continue to increase.

David Wiley, Some guy taking about 10 years of open, 2008https://web.archive.org/web/20150717043824/http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/ten-years-of-open-content-presentation?type=powerpoint

“The dearth of empirically verifiable reuse of OERs begs the question – where is the “work we are doing in developing “field” of open educational resources really going? What is our real goal? If our goal is catalyzing and facilitating significant amounts of reuse and adaptation of materials, we seem to be failing. And history indicates we may experience additional failure in the future.”

David Wiley, that man again, 2009Dark Reuse: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/905

Mike Caulfield, Still trying to make Federated wiki a thing, 2015https://twitter.com/holden/status/664853869910822912

What do open educators talk about?What kinds of things have people presented at OpenEd(xx)?How has this changed over time?What can we learn from it?

Methodology

- Captured 11 years of OpenEd(xx) presentation titles- Tagged against 10 categories- Repeated and refined tagging- Plotted as % of papers in each year- Looked for patterns and trends- Compared to patterns found in other sources- Data available from http://tiny.cc/OpenEdArchive

(Obligatory wordle)

SUSTAINABILITY

http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/i-watch-the-ripples-change-their-size-but-never-leave-the-stream-altc-2015/

CRITIQUES and PEDAGOGIC THEORY

POLICY

REUSE

- David Wiley

CREDENTIALS and ASSESSMENT

So what?

• Conversations in the field, and at this conference, are often characterised. The reality is more nuanced and multi-faceted. Open Education has always been a broad, multidisciplinary field.

• Conversations in the field, and at this conference, are often characterised. The reality is more nuanced and multi-faceted. Open Education has always been a broad, multidisciplinary field.• It is possible to see external parallels to conversations in wider

culture, but we can also point to ways in which open education has influenced wider culture.

• Conversations in the field, and at this conference, are often characterised. The reality is more nuanced and multi-faceted. Open Education has always been a broad, multidisciplinary field.• It is possible to see external parallels to conversations in wider

culture, but we can also point to ways in which open education has influenced wider culture.• We need to get better at building on the findings of earlier open

education work.

TAKE THIS DATA AND PLAY WITH IT.

IMPROVE IT.

PRESENT WHAT YOU BUILD.

http://tiny.cc/OpenEdArchive

(at the very least write a blog post)

http://known.adamcroom.com/2015/an-open-set-of-opened15-program-apis

How do you archive a conference?(TAGS, Slideshare, blogs… internet archive?)

But dreams can drift awayAnd sails can fill with doubtWhere's your visionIf the embers flicker out?

- Kenny Loggins