What is Open Education and what are OER?

1. Open Education
Resources (OER)
BCIT PART-TIME STUDIES PD DAY
JUNE 4, 2016

2. Welcome!
Rosario Passos
BCcampus
Advisor, Open Education
rosario.passos@bccampus.ca
Twitter: @PW_Passos

3. About This Workshop
Explore issues around Open Education
Locate Open Educational Resources (OER) in repositories,
assess them and integrate them into your teaching, online
and in the classroom, to promote learner engagement and
create meaningful learning experiences for your students

4. What Is Open Education?

5. What Is Open Education?
Open Education encompasses resources, tools
and practices that are free of legal, financial and
technical barriers and can be fully used, shared
and adapted in the digital environment.
- SPARC, http://sparcopen.org/open-education/

6. The 5 Rs of Open
• Make and own a copyRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute

7. What are OER?
"freely accessible, openly formatted and openly licensed documents and media that are
useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes.“ Wikipedia

8. Examples of OER
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Course materials
• Lesson plans
• Software
• Games
• Simulations
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Adaptive tests

9. OER and Student Achievement
http://openedgroup.org/
11 Peer Reviewed Studies

10. 48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/

11. 93% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/

12. Student Achievement: No Significant
Difference
“In three key measures of student success—course completion,
final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty
chose OER generally performed as well or better than students
whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.”
A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students
in Journal of Computing in Higher Education

13. OER Quality: Myth or Reality?
9 Peer Reviewed Studies of
Perceptions of OER Quality
http://openedgroup.org/

14. 4,510 Professors and
Students
http://openedgroup.org/
50% as good as
35% superior
15% inferior

15. Quality? Evaluating OER
Achieve Rubrics
◦ Rubric I. Degree of Alignment to Standards
◦ Rubric II. Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter
◦ Rubric III. Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching
◦ Rubric IV. Quality of Assessment
◦ Rubric V. Quality of Technological Interactivity
◦ Rubric VI. Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice Exercises
◦ Rubric VII. Opportunities for Deeper Learning
◦ Rubric VIII. Assurance of Accessibility

16. Pedagogy Behind OER
Mind-as-a-container status quo (Freire, 1970) vs. socially constructed
knowledge (negotiated vision)
Transformative pedagogy (critical and analytical thinking) (Giroux, 1997,
Freire, 1970)
Social constructivism though dialogical method (meaningful dialogue)
Collaboration, co-creation, enquiry
Lifelong learning
Constructionism

17. Licensing: Creative Commons (CC)

18. Licensing Combination
Attribution (CC BY)
Attribution — Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
Attribution — No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)
Attribution — Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
Attribution — Non-Commercial — Share-Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Attribution — Non-Commercial — No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)
To license an OER – P2PU

19. Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License
CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

20. The Spectrum of Open
Source: https://creativecommons.org/examples/

21. OER Commons
BC Campus Open Ed – open textbooks
MIT Open Courseware
Connexions
OpenStax College - textbooks
SOL*R - shareable resources from BC Campus
Merlot - learning objects repository
Saylor
Open Learn
Khan Academy
HippoCampus
Curriki
P2PU
EdX- Free courses from a consortium of
universities
Open Courseware Consortium
Free Images:
Flickr – CC, Wikimedia Commons
Free e-texts:
Flat World Knowledge, Bookboon,
College Open Textbooks
OER Repositories

22. Learn About Open
The School of Open

23. How Could You Use OER in Your Classes?
Group Work
Image: CC BY SA 2.0

24. Adopting OER in the Classroom
Use independently of other resources
Integrate them with other resources
Use them “as is”
Adapt OER to your needs/context
Integrate OER in your teaching and learning

25. Adapting OER
Find OER
Check the license
Adaptation: content-based, context, relevance
Check attribution requirements
Re-release it under Commons
Go to Creative Commons

26. Integrating OER
Find OER
Check the license
Look for content alignment
Scaffold the resource
Build on the resource, if appropriate
Integrate activities in the resource
Need for attribution?

27. The BCcampus Open Textbook Collection

28. HOW do I adopt an Open
Textbook for my course?

29. 4 Easy Steps
1.Find
2.Review
3.(Supplement)
4.Distribute

30. 1. Find
open.bccampus.ca

31. 1. Find

32. 2. Review

33. 3. (Supplement)

34. 4. Distribute to Students
 Provide the link to the textbook to your students.
OR
 Download copies of the book and put them on another site, e.g. LMS,
Dropbox Google Documents (and share that link)
OR
 If you have a faculty website put copies of the files on your faculty site
and send students to your website to download the copy.
OR
 Connect with your bookstore or print to make print copies available for
your students.

35. Why OER Matter

36. By Ashashyou (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons
Slideshare link