Slides for the OEPS Thinking About Open workshop held at University of Dundee on 27 October 2015. Facilitators: Bea de los Arcos and Beck Pitt

1. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Introduction
What does openness mean to you?

2. Who are we?
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3. Workshop Overview
#OEPS @OEPScotland

4. What does openness mean to you?
“Open,Open,Open.”CC-B&4.0InternationalBeckPitt

5. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
What is open?

6. Which example resonates best
with you?
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Thinking About Open
Why and how can open make a difference?

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“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range
from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes,
assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and
animation.” (UNESCO definition)
Source: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
Open Educational Resources?

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• “Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the
content;
• Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g.,
in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video);
• Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content
itself (e.g., translate the content into another language);
• Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with
other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate
the content into a mashup);
• Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content,
your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of
the content to a friend).” (David Wiley, 5 March 2014)
Source: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
The 5Rs

10. Photo CC BY-SA 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/5BZgEa
79.8% of educators adapt OER to suit their needs

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OER allow
educators
to better
accommodate
diverse learner
needs

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Open Textbooks
• 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)
• 63% of respondents to the 2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey
“…reported not having purchased the required textbook because of the
high cost…”
http://openstaxcollege.org/faculty
http://www.tcc.edu/academics/degrees/textbook-free
Picture credit: Public Domain

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“In what ways, if any, has using OpenStax College
textbooks impacted on your own teaching
practice?”
Source: Pitt (2015) http://www.slideshare.net/BeckPitt/exploring-the-impact-of-open-textbooks-around-the-world

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“I wanted to make sure that there was dual
attribution, so it wasn’t just attributing to GCU, I
wanted the author to have their name on (…) so
they can take [the resources] and evidence the
development and the work they’ve done, and they
can take them with them through their careers”
Marion Kelt, on Glasgow Caledonian University OER policy

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What about Quality?
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“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)
BCcampus open textbook sprint participants (Photo Credit: BCcampus_News CC-
BY SA 2.0 http://tinyurl.com/mank4kf)

16. Coffee Break!
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(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],viaWikimediaCommons

17. Opening Educational Practices in
Scotland
Thinking About Open
Barriers to Open

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Which challenges, if any, do you most often face in using OER?

20. Opening Educational Practices in
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Making Change Happen

21. collaboration

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OER Guidance for Schools, DigiLit Project
Leicester
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/

23. Guidance on creating/using OER, GCU
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/copyright/creatingcontent/

24. OER Impact Map: http://oermap.org
#oermap

25. Opening Educational Practices in
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Round-Up

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Thank you!
We’d love your feedback…
Any questions or comments?
@celTatis
B.de-los-Arcos@open.ac.uk
@BeckPitt
Beck.Pitt@open.ac.uk
@OEPScotland
oepscotland@gmail.com
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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
Further Reading on collaborative authorship by Sprint:
• 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/
and http://bccampus.ca/2014/06/20/how-to-turn-a-great-idea-into-an-open-textbook-in-just-four-days/

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• 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
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