OER, Open Textbooks & Moodle
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The document discusses the importance of open educational resources (OER) and the benefits of open access in education, including cost savings and increased accessibility for students and educators. It highlights the principles of the free culture movement and how open resources can be legally shared and modified. Additionally, it outlines a project in British Columbia that aims to provide free textbooks for high-demand courses to enhance higher education access.
OER, Open Textbooks & 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)
- 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
- 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