save the trees! mary cash and karen kaemmerling elcc 2011
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SAVE THE TREES!Mary Cash and Karen Kaemmerling
ELCC 2011
What is Open Content
"Open content is content that is licensed in a manner that provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user.”
The primary usage rights open content is concerned with are: Reuse - the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim
form Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content
itself Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with
other content to create something new Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with others
http://opencontent.org/definition/
Advantages for Faculty
No waiting for students to get text Content is current/relevant Content is engaging/dynamic Content is easier to manipulate Faculty may find open source content
more engaging for themselves and for their students (Shakespeare course a great example!)
Advantages for Students
Have “text” when class starts Lower or No cost More dynamic/engaging content Appeals to more learning styles
Audio Video
Carry chunked content Printable
Common Elements in Design
Discussion Intensive Research Based Homework Student Centered Learning Scaffold Assignments
ANT 101 Example
Provides a custom Search Engine http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=0128
14712747096910814:2wm6lwfl5hs
Provides “required” internet resources for each Unit Wikibooks:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cultural_Anthropology/Introduction
Permissions to use material in course http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/default.htm
HIS 202 Example
NROC content Interactive maps and images Sound files Mini Lectures as videos Printable www.Hippocampus.org Web Links
ENG 122 Example
Course Readings pulled from the Purdue OWL: Research and Citation, Argument and MLA Styleguide (2009) and information on rhetoric/argument comes from .
Students choose their semester-long research topic by visiting/browsing/searching through a list of online magazines including: Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The New Republic, Discover, Seed Magazine, The Utne Reader, Mother Jones.
Students can search for articles by going to the CCCOnline article databases, or they can search the article databases and use the library resources at their home schools (See the CCCOnline Library Resources information on our student wiki:
Some ENG 122 courses also incorporate sources/tutorials, etc. from the CCCOnline Research and Writing Toolkit (and if they don’t . . . they should!)
LIT 225 Example
Play texts from Open Source Shakespeare (reformatted slightly and saved into course)
Audio recordings from LibriVox (note: took play texts and reformatted slightly and placed
files in course; with LibriVox audio recordings – downloaded and put on our media server to ensure continuous access.)
Videos – majority come from open source (Google/PBS, etc.); students need to rent Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) and check another one out from the library (Measure for Measure).
Course also points to play synopses (text and audio) and a multitude of Shakespeare web resources (Example: King Lear from PBS).
Challenges with Open Content
More time and work to develop
More maintenance
ADA compliance More student
support
Read content on screen
Access to technology
No book to hold Non traditional Need tech
assistance
Instructors Students
Solutions
Don’t over do it Improve page
design Incorporate
multimedia Be available
Provide affordable print versions
Provide time to become familiar with format
Provide usability tips
Instructors Students
Feedback from Students
“I'm learning a lot and finding it easier to find more information without a book. The internet is a good source.”
“This class allows me to do my own research and by doing that it challenges me to find out everything about a certain topic in order to truly understand it.”
“I appreciate the lower cost and I do think I get more from hearing it and then reading it. ”
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