OER, Open Textbooks & Moodle

Clint Lalonde & Chad Leaman Moodle Users Group June 19, 2013Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

Image: Into the Great Wide Open by Maarten van Maanen used under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license

Why OPEN?

Photo: Fina Underwater by Dave Foster used under Creative Commons license

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

“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

Open Data

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/

Open as Business Model

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

cMOOCOpen Access/RegistrationOpen Educational ResourcesOpen platforms (the web)

Connectivist/Social ConstructivistLearning Community Instructor as active participant

xMOOCOpen Access/Registration Proprietary resourcesClosed platform (LMS)

Instructivist pedagogyAutonomous (peer grading)Instructor as expert (Sage on Stage)

Open Source Software

http://open.royalroads.ca/

UNESCOhttp://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.”

• Educational resources (text, images, simulations, multimedia, textbooks)

• Accessible by anyone (usually via internet)• Free• Can be modified & adapted by other

educators

Information Overload by SparkCBC used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license

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

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

©

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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)

• 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?

Source: OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/

June 2012160 school adoptions$2.3 million savings

Image: D

on’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernendez used under CC-N

C-SA license

Phase One: Call for reviews of existing open textbooksNow

Phase Two: Call for adaptationsDate: Sept 2013

Phase Three: Call for creationDate: Jan 2014

open.bccampus.ca

Integrating an ePub into a Moodle course