5 steps to using open access in the classroom 11 9 2011

Elizabeth Brown
Scholarly Communications and Library Grants Officer
Binghamton University Libraries

New Concepts in teaching and learning: E-texts, open educational
resources and more
November 4, 2011

Limitations to making content open

Michelle Hawkins-Thiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkins-thiel/2515183032/

Sarah Cool: http://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2007/05/13/writing-project-wrap-up/finding-the-good-ones-courtesy-sarah-cool-at-flickrs-creative-commons/

The Goal

Jonathan Nerdtrek: http://nerdtrek.com/iron-man-movie-computer/

Five Steps
Identify

Preserve Assess

Share Create

The Five Steps Explained
1. Identify open content
2. Assess the value of the information
3. Create open content
4. Share open content with peers
5. Preserve open content on the web and locally

All the Opens
 Dorothea Salo, Battle of the Opens, Book of Trogool,
March 15, 2010

 Open Source
 Open Standards
 Open Access
 Open Educational Resources
 Open (Research) Data
 Open (Governmental) Data
 Open Notebook Science

Open is a movement

#occupyknowledge
#occupyscholcomm
#oaweek
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1. Identify Open Content
 Journals
 Data/Journal Article Manuscripts
 Citizen Science/Open Research
 Blogs and Social Media
 Books
 Photos/Images/Multimedia

Open Access Journal Collections
 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
 Highwire Press
 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 BioMedCentral
 PubMedCentral
 J-Stage
 Royal Society
 JSTOR
 Hindawi

Open Research, Government Data
 OAD Wiki – Data Repositories
 Data.gov

Repositories
•OAD Wiki – Disciplinary Repositories
•Nature Precedings

Citizen Science, Open Research
 Citizens for Science
 Scientific American Citizen Science
 Open Folklore
 Open Notebook Science Challenge

Blogs

 Technorati Top 100, Technorati, updated daily.
 Science Blogs
 Scientopia
 Scientific American Blogs
 Nature Blog Network
 The Guardian Blogposts
 New York Times Blogs

Public Domain Books
 Rebecca Hedreen, Open Access Books, Southern
Connecticut State University, 2007.
 Freely Available Ebook Collections, Binghamton
University Libraries, October 26, 2011.

Photos/Images/Multimedia

 Jean-Baptiste Jung, 50 Sites to find free stock images, Cats
Who Code, January 22, 2009

2. Assess
 Alternative Metrics
 Social Media Data, Analysis
 Copyright – can I use it?
 Assessment Tools

Alternative Metrics

http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

Alternative Metrics: Is it Junk?
 It depends…
 Citation metrics are evolving:
 Impact Factor (Thomson), 1960’s
 h-index (Hirsch, UC San Diego), 2005
 Eigenfactor, 2009
 Eigenfactor™ Score (EF)
 Article Influence™ Score (AI)

 PLOS article level metrics, 2009
 Varies by discipline
 Change over time

Copyright Law and Creative Commons
 Copyright Advisory Network

 Creative Commons
 Copyright Alliance

3. Create open content- Wikis, editors

Create Open Content: VoIP, IM
 VoIP: Voice over IP
 Instant Messaging/Chat:
 Comparison of Instant Messaging Clients,
Wikipedia, October 21, 2011

Creating Open Content – Cloud
Storage

Organizing your online links
Organizing online links (bookmarks)
 Matt McGhee, 10 Alternatives to Delicious.com
Bookmarking, Search Engine Land, December 16, 2010

Organizing article references
 Martin Fenner, Reference Manager Overview
(version 2.4), Gobbledygook, September 19, 2010.

4. Share Open Content
 Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites |
October 2011, eBiz/MBA, October 20 ,2011.

Clean Cut Media: http://www.cleancutmedia.com/internet/growth-of-social-media-statistics-video-
socialnomics

5. Preserve
 Self-publishing
 Cloud Storage
 Campus data storage
 Library digital repository

 Think REDUNANCY

Making, Using Open Content requires
planning
 What tools are available?
 What do I need to create myself?
 How much time do I have?
 Is this enriching the classroom experience/course?

What is your final product?
 Portfolio
 E-textbook
 Curriculum Guide
 Tutorial
 Peer-Reviewed article, monograph

 Catalyst for future projects
 Build on content

Open is an iterative process
 Build content from one semester to the next
 Create a continuously evolving organism
 Explore concepts more deeply

Additional Advice
 Consider starting small
 Keep student abilities in mind
 Some areas easier to incorporate open content
 Technology evolves quickly!
 Colleagues may need data to be convinced of
success.

Sources
 Jason Fitzpatrick, Five Best Blogging Platforms, Lifehacker, June 10,
2010.
 Alex Wilhelm, The Five Best Blogging Platforms you haven’t heard
of, The Next Web, September 7, 2011.
 Mark Sample, Create Your Own E-Book with Open-Source Sigil,
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2011.
 London School of Economics and Political Science Impact of Social
Sciences, Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university
research, teaching, and impact activities, September 29, 2011.
 Guy Kawasaki, Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn, How to Change the
World, January 4, 2007.
 Lauren Dugan, 5 Twitter metrics beyond follow count, March 10,
2011.
 Edudemic, The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen by You,
November 2, 2011.

Case Studies
 Bodie, Matthew T. , Open Access in Law Teaching: A New
Approach to Legal Education, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 885
(2006)
 Campbell AM (2004) Open Access: A PLoS for Education. PLoS
Biol 2(5): e145. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020145
 Michael Verhaart, Stephanie Day, Joyce Seitzinger, Using Open
Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth
it?, 2011
 K. A. Garrett, P. D. Esker, and A. H. Sparks, An Introduction to
the R Programming Environment, 2008.
 Hsinchun Chen; Xin Li; Chau, M.; Yi-Jen Ho; Chunju Tseng; ,
"Using Open Web APIs in Teaching Web Mining," Education,
IEEE Transactions on , vol.52, no.4, pp.482-490, Nov. 2009
doi: 10.1109/TE.2008.930509

More Case Studies
 MS Mustafa, J Montgomery, HR Atta, OPEN ACCESS: A
novel educational tool for teaching ocular ultrasound,
Clinical Opthamology, 21 June 2011.
 Harry E. Pence and Barbara Losoff, Going beyond the
textbook: The need to integrate open access primary
literature into the Chemistry curriculum, Chem Cent J.
2011; 5: 18, published online 2011 April 6.
doi:10.1186/1752-153X-5-18
 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom,
TeachingDegrees.org, 2009.
 An Open Access toolkit to support bibliometrics training
and awareness, NDLR, Ireland, 2010-2011.

Thank You / Credits
 Title image: Poppy Thomas-Hill
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkpoppyimages/6254575807/in/pool-809956@N25/)

 Presentation Link: http://www.slideshare.net/ebrown

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