Keynote address for the Utah OER Summit.

1. Open Utah: Commons-Oriented Approaches
to Pedagogy and Planning in Higher Ed
Robin DeRosa @actualham

2. What is open?
How do we practice it?
Why should we build around it?
What is open?
Image: CCBYND Becky McCray https://flic.kr/p/d6A7HQ

3. Image: CCBYNC Jurriaan Persyn https://flic.kr/p/58Z8uX
What is does a domain for the public look like?
Should education as a concept be open to the
public?
Does public always mean free?
Should a public space be accessible to all?
Is knowledge a public resource?
When are gates needed to add boundaries to public
places?
Do public resources require private partnerships to
survive?
Can information be owned? How about knowledge?
How about learning? How about education?

5. Image: The Economist

7. Pipe? Check
Tweed? Check
Assess course costs? Whatever

8. Only 29% of faculty
are aware of OER
Stat and graph: CCBY Babson Survey Research Group
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

9. Switch the Message
It’s not about COST
It’s about ACCESS

10. Access to Knowledge

11. 2016

12. OER
OpenStax Books

13. Cost of Books
Access to Knowledge
• All OER
• Food pantry
• Veteran’s Contracts
• Ride Co-op
• Childcare Co-op
• Evening & Hybrid Classes
• Laptop Checkout Program
• Greenlight Grading
• Drop-in Help Center
• Technology
• Advising
• Writing

14. Access to Knowledge Creation

17. No, It’s Not Just for Public Domain Literature
Interdisciplinary Studies:
A Connected Learning Approach
Opensem: A Student-Generated
Handbook for the First Year of College

25. What architectures do we need for learning?
Who should build them?

27. Domain of One’s Own
• Drag ’n Drop → Design
• Digital consumer → Digital
creator
• Data mining → Data control
• Audience of 1 → Public impact
• Web as broadcast station →
Web as open lab
• Work attached to course →
Work attached to student
• ePortfolio → ePort
http://kayleighbennett.com/

29. IDS taught me to be responsible for my learning and growth. You
learn to expand your returns. We do not post our “homework”
to a hidden, school controlled website. We share our work for all
of the world to see. This idea of owning your own domain allows
you to be confident in your work and take responsibility for
what you are learning, how you make connections in the world,
and how you share your knowledge. To me, this style of learning
and sharing is a good idea for Interdisciplinary Studies and all
other majors. Academic settings need to work on sharing each
other’s work, and being engaged in the world outside of
classroom walls.
madisongroberge.plymouthcreate.net
from I’m not graduating
“on time” & that is OK.

30. These ePorts are a way for us to really explain the type
of future we want to lead. They express who we are,
how we feel, how we learn and SO much more.
Personally, I have found my ePort to be a way to cope
with my illness. Before this school year, I was so lost,
sad, angry and essentially broken. I was given six
months to live and felt okay, why should I even try to
further my life if it’s just going to end. Well, here I am,
almost TWO years later doing great things with both
my education and my life.
Tiffanyrichards.plymouthcreate.net
from
IDS REALIZES $H!T HAPPENS!

31. Twitter was a way for us to expand our knowledge and
let our voices be heard all throughout the country. We
share our personal goals and share how we feel about
certain issues going on in the world. We follow people
who surround the field we are pursuing. I constantly
have TweetDeck open on my laptop now, go figure. For
example, I follow @PatientsRising. They advocate the
importance of access to vital therapies and services for
patients facing life-altering diseases. Get this, they
followed me BACK. I just think it is so cool how PLN’s
can build yourself a name. Tiffanyrichards.plymouthcreate.net
from
IDS REALIZES $H!T HAPPENS!

32. Cost of Books
OER
Access to Knowledge
Access to Knowledge
Creation
Open Pedagogy

33. Why have students
answer questions when
they can write them?

34. Deeper learning (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)
Evaluate and defend credibility of sources
(Marentette, 2014)
Write more concisely and think more
critically (Farzan & Kraut, 2013)
Collaborate with students from around the
world (Karney, 2012)
Provide and receive constructive feedback
(Ibrahim, 2012)
Enhance digital literacy (Silton, 2012)
Communicate ideas to a general audience
(APS, 2013)

39. • Create and submit an
assignment
• Complete an assignment
and share your work
• Help someone else do the
assignment by creating a
tutorial

40. Digital redlining &
the digital divide
are real and insidious.
Open is not
the opposite of private.
EdTech is
selling something.
Open is
a process,
not a panacea.

41. Open Pedagogy
• Opens gates to learning
• Centers access in design
• Connects learners to their
communities of practice
• Thrives in learner-designed
architectures
• Leverages the open license
• Enables learner contributions
to the knowledge commons
• Approaches tools and
technologies critically, with a
focus on privacy
• Builds toward a publics-
oriented vision for Higher Ed

42. • Increase ACCESS to Higher Ed
• Engage our students with their
communities of practice
• Enable learners to CONTRIBUTE
to knowledge commons
• Build a collaborative UT system
Open Education:
putting the PUBLIC back in public Higher Ed
Public

43. question
Robin DeRosa @actualham