Virtual session done for the Lambda Moodle Users Community. Chad Leaman from Lambda did the last half of the presentation which was a live demo of how to import an ePub book into Moodle.

1. Clint Lalonde & Chad Leaman
Moodle Users Group
June 19, 2013
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
Image: Into the Great Wide Open by Maarten van Maanen used under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license

2. Why OPEN?
Photo: Fina Underwater by Dave Foster used under Creative Commons license

3. Open (free) Culture
“social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute
and modify creative works in the form of free content by
using the Internet and other forms of media.
Free Culture Movement Wikipedia

4. “citizens have the
right to access the
documents and
proceedings of the
government to allow
for effective public
oversight”
Open Government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_government

5. Open Data

6. Open Access Publishing
“As a society, we are paying for science,
and then we’re paying to read about it.”
http://ubyssey.ca/author/gordanapanicgoldischami/

7. Open as Business Model

8. Day of the MOOC by Michael Branson Smith used under Creative Commons license

9. cMOOC
Open Access/Registration
Open Educational Resources
Open platforms (the web)
Connectivist/Social Constructivist
Learning Community
Instructor as active participant
xMOOC
Open Access/Registration
Proprietary resources
Closed platform (LMS)
Instructivist pedagogy
Autonomous (peer grading)
Instructor as expert (Sage on Stage)

10. Open Source Software

11. http://open.royalroads.ca/

12. UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-
resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
“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.”

13. • Educational resources (text, images,
simulations, multimedia, textbooks)
• Accessible by anyone (usually via internet)
• Free
• Can be modified & adapted by other
educators

14. Information Overload by SparkCBC used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license

15. Cost to Copy (for a 250 page book)
• Copy by hand: $1,000
• Copy by print on demand: $4.50
• Copy by computer: $0.00084
David Wiley, Beyond the Textbook http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/wiley-15432979

16. Cost to Distribute (for a 250 page book)
• Distribute by mail: $5.20
• Distribute by internet: $0.00072
David Wiley, Beyond the Textbook http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/wiley-15432979

20. Image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law
http://education-copyright.org/creative-commons/
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa license

21. Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/
Used under Creative Commons attribution share-alike license
40 free and open
textbooks available for
the highest enrolled 1st &
2nd year post-secondary
subjects in BC.
Multiple formats
(PDF, ePub, HTML, Print
on Demand)

22. • To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
• To enable faculty more control over their instructional resources
• To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY
Why are we doing this project?

23. Source: OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/
June 2012
160 school adoptions
$2.3 million savings

24. Image:Don’treinventitbyAndreaHernendezusedunderCC-NC-SAlicense

25. Phase One: Call for reviews of existing
open textbooks
Now
Phase Two: Call for adaptations
Date: Sept 2013
Phase Three: Call for creation
Date: Jan 2014

26. open.bccampus.ca

27. Integrating an ePub into a Moodle course