talking all things open
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Opening keynote for Moodle Moot 2011 in EdmontonTRANSCRIPT
Talking About All Things Open
Paul Stacey
May 3, 2011
Opportunity Side of Open
Pedagogies
Open Source Software
Open-Source Software (OSS):
Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.
Open Source Software
Benefits:
•$0 licensing fee•easily and quickly adapted•customization and enhancements don't require large investments•not dependent on proprietary vendors implementation decision or timeline•source code bugs, improvements and feature requests are all openly shared and managed•education institutions can join forces to form community based developer networks or share hosting & support•participants in the developer communities are also users of the software
Lots Of OSS in Education
Open Access Research Publication
Open Access (OA):
Free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.
There are two roads to OA:
1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing , where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all)
2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.
Open Government & Data
Open Government:
A policy and legal framework to open up access to publicly held information, promoting transparency and enabling wider economic and social gain.
• promote creative and innovative activities, which will deliver social and economic benefits
• make government more transparent and open in its activities, ensuring that the public are better informed about the work of the government and the public sector
• enable more civic and democratic engagement through social enterprise and voluntary and community activities
Open Government/Data
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER):
Learning materials that are freely available under a license that allows them to be:
• reused - you have the right to reuse the content in its unaltered / verbatim form
• revised - you have the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
• remixed - you have the right to combine the original or revised content with other content to create something new
• redistributed - you have the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
Implementation involves licenses, tools (store, search distribute, …), processes (design, development, …) and resulting content (full courses, modules, learning objects, media elements, …)
Foundation Funded OER
http://cnx.org
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
http://ocw.mit.edu
Publicly Funded OER
http://solr.bccampus.ca
http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english
http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Open Textbooks
http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+student+textbook+fees+could+half/4010791/story.html
“Gov. Schwarzenegger Launches First-in-Nation Initiative to Develop Free Digital Textbooks for High School Students”
“Texas seeks open textbooks.”
Open Pedagogies
Massively Open Online CoursesTeaching openly in publicOpen use of student work
Pedagogies
Open Pedagogies
OER University
Talking All Things Open
Panel
Explore the effects these forms of "openness" are having on education.
Roundtables
How are you participating in or implementing practices associated with Open Source Software, & Open Access Research Publishing, Open Government/Data, Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogies?
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